I received my B.A. with high honors in both French and History from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2018. At the end of my undergraduate career, I produced two senior theses. The first, titled, “Jean-Paul Marat : homme des Lumières,” winner of the Mousseau Award for Outstanding Honors Thesis in French, analyzed the way Marat placed himself within the philosophical filiation of Rousseau and Montesquieu via his publications during the French Revolution. The second, titled “The Petite terreur: Limitations on a Free Press,” examined journalistic and political discourse on the nature of the free press in 1791 France. The following academic year, I participated in TAPIF (Teaching Assistant Program in France), where I worked as an English Language Assistant at a lycée in Pont-à-Mousson, Lorraine, France.
My research interests focus primarily on the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the digital humanities, and print journalism. I am particularly interested in the way political language and ideology is constructed and exists within a volatile political framework (i.e. a revolution), as well as the relationship between the collective and the individual within political language.