He received his Ph.D. from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Prior to joining he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Program in Early American Economy and Society at the Library Company in Philadelphia and served as an assistant professor at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. He is completing his first book project entitled The Entrepôt of Atlantic Revolutions: Saint-Domingue, Commercial Republicanism and the Remaking of the French Empire (1778-1804). It places the American, the French, and the Haitian Revolution in a global context and argues that the massive trade between the wealthiest slave colony in the world and the first independent republic in the Americas was foundational in the invention of a modern French republican empire.