“Les Messageries maritimes au-delà de Suez au début du XXe siècle : souveraineté et luttes syndicales dans les zones grises de l’Empire français.” Revue d’histoire maritime 33 (8/2023): 107-122.

“Anti-labour repression in the in-between spaces of empire. The Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes and the steamship workers of the ‘China Line’ (1900–20),” in Corporate Policing, Yellow Unionism, and Strikebreaking, 1890-1930: In Defence of Freedom, eds. M. Milan and A. Saluppo (New York: Routledge. 2021), 117-133. (review) (review)

Forthcoming: “Effervescent Seas: Racialized Labor and Mobile Militancy on the Steamship Highways of the French Indo-Pacific.” French Historical Studies, Vol. 47, No. 3 (August 2024).

Forthcoming with Bloomsbury: “Regulating and Controlling Mobilities: Ships and Sea Lanes in a World of Empires,” in A Cultural History of Transport and Mobility, Volume 4: The Age of Steam, ed. Frances Steel.

My first book, Empire on the Line: Mobility, Politics, and the Ocean Corridors of French Colonialism, 1850-1950, explores the transoceanic routes that connected France to its 19th and 20th-century colonies in Asia and Africa. These routes are often imagined only as logistical pipelines in an age of steam and coal. As the book shows, though, oceanic corridors ‘east of Suez’ were also remarkably tough places to govern. The many empires that crowded into these narrow sea lanes faced the challenges of connectivity: from solving impossibly complex questions of jurisdiction to stamping out disease; and from policing passengers to controlling the multi-racial proletariat that kept shipping lines running. Though authorities tried to contain the fractious politics of these maritime highways, ultimately they could not prevent a wave of illicit migration, labor militancy, smuggling, and anticolonial activism from washing onto Europe’s shores.

My next project explores the intertwined origins of the modern shipping industry and the invention of the Indo-Pacific.

“Connecting the French Empire.” Teaching Module in World History Commons.

“In-between Empires: Steaming the Trans-Suez Highways of French Imperialism (1830s-1930s),” in the Merchant Marines at the Heart of Globalization Blog (MARCOMO)

“Floating Neighbourhoods: Living Together in the ‘east of Suez’ ships of the French and British Empires, 1870s-1930s,” in the Mobile Domesticities Blog.

“Engineering Imperialism,” in Past & Present Blog.