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I came to USC in the fall of 2006 after graduating from Swarthmore College and receiving my MA in French Cultural Studies from Columbia University. I passed my qualifying exams in May 2009 in the fields of Modern European History, Urban History, and Visual Culture. My dissertation, provisionally entitled "Capturing the 'City of Light': Collecting, Conserving and Creating Paris in the 20th Century," explores the creation of city-specific image archives and their use to narrate the history of Paris. Thanks to a Chateaubriand Fellowship from the French government, I'm spending 2009-2010 in Paris conducting research. My Parisian affiliations include the LHIVIC laboratory at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and the Institute de l'Histoire du Temps Present. My essay "Chinese Idols and Religious Art: Questioning Difference in Cérémonies et coutumes" in Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt's Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion will be published in 2010 by the Getty Research Institute.
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