“Anti-Semitism and the Colonial Situation in Interwar Algeria: the Anti-Jewish Riots in Constantine, August 1934.” Book chapter forthcoming in 2009 in Martin Thomas, ed., The French Colonial Mind (Omaha: University of Nebraska Press).
“Massacres and their Historians: Recent Histories of State Violence in France and Algeria in the 20th Century.” Review essay forthcoming in 2009 in French Politics, Culture, & Society.
“Answering Torture’s Apologists: Recent Work on Torture, Democracy, and French History,” French Politics, Vol. 6, No. 4 (December 2008), pp. 375-387.
“Understanding the French Riots of 2005: What historical context for the ‘crise des banlieues’?,” Francophone Postcolonial Studies 5:2 (Autumn/Winter 2007), pp. 69-100.
“Entering History: The Memory of Police Violence in Paris, October 1961” in Patricia Lorcin, ed., Algeria & France: Identity, Memory, and Nostalgia, 1800-2000, (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2006), pp. 117-134.
“Intimate Acts and Unspeakable Relations: Remembering Torture and the War for Algerian Independence,” in Alec G. Hargreaves, ed., Memory, Empire and Postcolonialism: Legacies of French Colonialism (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005), pp. 125-141.
“Remembering the Battle of Paris: 17 October 1961 in French and Algerian Memory,” French Politics, Culture, and Society 21:3 (Fall 2003), pp. 21-50.
The Power of Large Numbers: Population, Politics and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2000). Selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2000 by Choice Magazine (January, 2001).
“The Difficulty of Saying ‘I’” Journal of European Studies 29 (1999), pp. 405-416.
Chapter 7, “The transition to peace, 1918-1919,” in Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert, eds., Capital Cities at War: Paris, London, Berlin, 1914-19 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997), pp. 196-226. With Jon Lawrence and Jean-Louis Robert.
“‘A Sudden and Terrible Revelation’: Motherhood and Infant Mortality in France, 1858-1874,” Journal of Family History 21:4 (October, 1996), pp. 419-445.
“‘There are only good mothers...’: The Ideological Work of Women’s Fertility in France Before World War I,” French Historical Studies 19:3 (Spring, 1996), pp. 639-672.
“‘The Chaos of Particular Facts’: Statistics, Medicine, and the Social Body in Early Nineteenth-Century France,” History of the Human Sciences 7 (August, 1994), pp. 1-27.