I am a Professor of History at Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia, where I offer courses on modern Europe, Africa since 1800, and world history, as well as a course on imperialism, colonialism, and nationalism. Additionally, I currently serve as President of the French Colonial Historical Society.

I am a historian of modern European history with an emphasis on Europe’s relations with the wider world, in particular European imperialism and decolonization from the late 1800s to the second half of the twentieth century. My current research centers on European overseas imperialism, comparative empires, Belgian colonialism in the Congo, and colonial culture in Europe. My main current project is a global history of the island of Majorca.

I have been a Wolfsonian Fellow at the Wolfsonian-Florida International University in Miami Beach, Florida, a Belgian American Educational Foundation Fellow in Brussels, a Chancellor’s Fellow at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and a participant in the National History Center’s Decolonization Seminar in Washington, D.C. I have lived or traveled in Europe regularly since the early 1980s.