Her research and teaching interests lie in the economic and social history of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Europe, as well as in the application of social science research methods across the disciplines.  She is the author of Civic Charity in a Golden Age: Orphan Care in Early Modern Amsterdam (1997); co-editor of Railroads in Historical Context: Construction, Costs, and Consequences, (in three volumes, 2011-2013); and author of numerous articles that range across her research interests in historical demography, material culture, early modern trade and consumption, the provision of charity, and the relationship between economic growth and the standard of living.  This work has appeared in many venues, including the Economic History Review, Explorations in Economic History, Family History, Historical Methods, the Journal of Economic History, the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, the Journal of World History, Social Science History, and the Oxford Handbook of Early Modern European History.

Conférences

La cathédrale. Réflexions autour du chantier de Notre-Dame de Paris

Dans le cadre du séminaire de Catherine Verna et Philippe Dillman, Technique et science du Moyen Âge à la Renaissance : matériaux, pratiques et savoirs

• Lundi 28 octobre de 17h à 19h - ENS (Salle de l’IHMC, 3^e étage, escalier D) – 45, Rue d’Ulm 75005 Paris

Polygamy, the Commoditization of Women, and Disorder (avec Dan Seligson)

Dans le cadre du séminaire de Jérôme Bourdieu, Jean-Yves Grenier, Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur, Gilles Postel-Vinay et Thomas Piketty, Histoire économique

• Mercredi 30 octobre de 12h30 à 14h - Campus Jourdan (Salle R1.09) – 48, boulevard Jourdan 75014 Paris

Competition and Innovation in Gothic Cathedral Construction: Economic Aspects

Dans le cadre du séminaire de Eve Chiapello, Current resaerch in Socio Economics

• Lundi 4 novembre de 14h à 16h - Université Paris-Dauphine (Salle A407) - Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny, 75016 Paris