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Research Interest(s): U.S. History; Environmental history; history of U.S. federal administration; North America; Diplomatic relations over environments shared between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico
Discipline(s): History
Research Group(s): Humanities. Lives, Materialities, Representations
Geographical Area(s): North America
Language(s): English, French, German
Biography
Doctoral candidate in History at Sciences Po since September 2020
My thesis examines the first years of the federal forest administration of the United States and its ties with German foresters from the German Empire from 1891 to 1914. It focuses particularly on its implementation in several Western States that were incorporated into the United States between 1890 and 1912, as well as in the territory of Puerto Rico. Its objective is to assess the extent to which the adoption and inauguration of a centralized forest administration signals a turning point for U.S. governance and for international influence exerted by the United States at the turn of the twentieth century.
Thesis Supervision
Thesis advisors: Mario Del Pero (Sciences Po, CHSP) & Giacomo Parrinello (Sciences Po, CHSP).
Thesis topic
"Forests and power in the United States empire, 1891-1914"
Teaching
- Environmental histories of North America;
- Long European Nineteenth Century;
- Narratives of the Past
AWARDS
- Graduate Fellow, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University;
- Stuart L. Bernath Dissertation Fellowship, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR);
- Fellow, Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, & Medicine (Philadelphia, PA, USA);
- Charles Redd Center Fellowship for Western History, Brigham Young University (Provo, UT, USA)
