PAPERS PRESENTED

• “Resisting the Systematization of Sexuality in Enlightenment France.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Montreal, QC: April 2006.
• “Homosexuality in Early Modern France.” Presented at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA: March 2003.
• “Sodomitical Subcultures in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. New York, NY: October 2002.
• “Outsiders in History.” Presented at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO: April 2002.
• “Narrating ‘Homosexuality’: Female and Male Trajectories.” Presented at the conference “Perspectives on Family, Gender, and Women,” at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK: March 2002; and at the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. New Orleans, LA: April 2001.
• “Writing the History of Homosexuality.” Roundtable at the University of Wisconsin. Madison, WI: March 2001.“Representing ‘Homosexuality’ in Early Modern France.”  Presented at the University of Wisconsin. Madison, WI: March 2001;  New York University. New York, NY: March 2001; and the Clark Library, the University of California, Los Angeles, March 2000.
• "The Crisis of Jobs in French History: Meeting the Challenge." Roundtable at the annual meeting of the Western Society for French History. Boston, MA: November 1998.
• "Sex Between Men in Cross-Cultural Perspective." Presented at the New York Gay History Seminar. New York, NY: October 1998.
• "Policing Sodomites in Eighteenth-Century Paris." Presented at Wellesley College. Wellesley, MA: November 1997.
• "`Pederasts,' Police, and Sexual Identity in Eighteenth-Century Paris." Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Society for French History. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: October 1997; and presented at the New York Area French History Seminar. New York, NY: May 1997; also to be presented at the Eighteenth-Century Group at CUNY Graduate Center. New York, NY: October 1997.
• "Peasants and the New Cultural History." Presented at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association. New Orleans, LA: October 1996.
• "Homosexuality Challenges the Enlightenment." Presented at the conference on "Homosexuality in Modern France." New York, NY: November 1994.
• "Challenging the Enlightenment: Homosexuality, Nature, and Toleration in the Eighteenth Century." Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Society for French History. Des Moines, IA: October 1994.
• "The New Politics of the French Revolution." Presented at the annual meeting of French Historical Studies. Chico, CA: March 1993.
• “Rural Religion and Political Mentalités during the French Revolution." Presented at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. Washington, DC: December 1992.
• "New Directions in the Historiography of the French Revolution." Presented at the workshop on "Making the French and Chinese Revolutions Speak to Each Other: A Workshop on the Comparative History of Revolutionary Political Cultures." Bloomington, IN: September 1992.
• "Catholicism and Struggles for Power in Rural France during the French Revolution." Presented at the Social History Seminar, University of Chicago. Chicago, IL: June 1992.
• "Religious Disturbances in the Department of the Somme during the French Revolution." Presented at the Proseminar on Knowledge, Power, and Culture, Committee on Historical Studies, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social Sciences, The New School for Social Research. New York, NY: March 1992.
• "Village Women and Political Activism in the French Revolution." Presented at the annual meeting of French Historical Studies. Vancouver, BC: March 1991.
• "Rural Political Culture in the Department of the Somme during the French Revolution." Presented at the Bay Area French History Seminar. Berkeley, CA: February 1991.
• "Village Politics during the French Revolution." Presented at the symposium, "The French Revolution and After: Culture and Society in France, 1789-1848." Stillwater, OK: November 1989.
• "Grain in the Political Imagination of Villagers in the Revolutionary Somme." Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Society for French History. Los Angeles, CA: November 1988.
• "The Challenge of French History: Rural Political Culture during the French Revolution." Presented at the Initiation Ceremony to Phi Alpha Theta, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.  Colorado Springs, CO: April 1988.