Publications

PUBLICATIONS

Monograph

Paul Rapin Thoyras and the Art of Eighteenth-Century Historiography (Oxford Studies in the Enlightenment, 2021).

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

"Beyond the (Holy) Shroud: A Glimpse into the Religious World of Africans and Afro-Creoles during the Haitian Revolution,” forthcoming;

“La Rivoluzione impensabile: Haiti nel primo Ottocento italiano,” Qualestoria, accepted for publication, Dec. 2022;

 “‘Effacés du nombre des Chrétiens’: Reading Enslaved Agency through the Sacrament of Confession in the 18th-Century French Caribbean,”
Cristianesimo nella Storia, 3 (2021), 855-898.

“A Transatlantic Battle of Robes: French Priests in the Haitian Revolution,” French History, https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/crac002.

 “Only when French generals will give their daughters in marriage to the Nègres”: Jean-François Petecou and the Other Path to Haitian Freedom,”
Age of Revolutions, May 2021.

“From Slave to Royal Vassal: Jean-François’s Negotiation Strategies in the Haitian Revolution,” Slavery & Abolition, 2021.
DOI: 10.1080/0144039X.2021.1903324

“Italians Crossing the Caribbean: Two Case-Studies,”Age of Revolution, Dec. 2020.

“Atlantic Ripples in the Mediterranean: Early nineteenth-century Patriotic Readings of Haiti in the Italian peninsula,” Atlantic Studies, 18:2 (2021), 172 - 192.

“The Making of a Man of Letters: The Backstage of Paul Rapin Thoyras’ Histoire d'Angleterre”, Erudition and the Republic of Letters, 3:3 (July 2018), 315 - 347.

“Crafting the Identity of a Historian in the Republic of Letters: Paul Rapin Thoyras’ (1661-1725) Self-Fashioning between Innovation and Tradition,” Medieval and Early Modern Studies Papers, 2015, 1-27.

“Book History in Global Context: Print Culture in Global and Transnational Context Study Day Report,” Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing News, 24.02.2015.

 

PUBLIC OUTREACH

2023                Public Plaque in honor of Marie-Louise), Queen of Haiti, Pisa City Council, Italy (fund-raising, organization, public outreach activities

2022                Consulting for a documentary episode on Haitian religion for Mythos - Die größten Rätsel der Geschichte, ZDF, Germany