BA, Southwest Missouri State University, 1973; MA, PhD, University of Iowa, 1974, 1981
Oberlin College 1981-82; Colgate University, 1982--
Modern European history, principally France and Britain; social history; women's history
19th-century France and French Revolution
Barricades: The War of the Streets in Revolutionary Paris, 1830-1848 (New York: Palgrave, 2002)
Policing Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Paris (Princeton University Press, 1985)
"Syphilis, Wives, and Physicians: Medical Ethics and the Family in Late Nineteenth Century France" (French Historical Studies, spring 1989)
"Gender, Class and Madness in Nineteenth-Century France" (French Historical Studies)
AAUW scholarship