I am interested in 17th- and 18th-century French history, particularly the reign of Louis XIV, the famous Sun King, and in military history. I am currently working on a book on 1709, a year of military, political, economic and ecological crises in France. I also produce a podcast, Great Battles in History.

I am willing to supervise graduate students in all areas of early modern French history and early modern military history.

• "Absolutist France to 1715" In The Routledge Handbook of French French History. Edited by David Andress. Forthcoming.

• "The Survival of France: Logistics and Strategy in the 1709 Flanders Campaign." The Journal of Military History 84 (October 2020), 1021-1050.

• "Crisis and Survival: Government in the Provinces during the Third Reign." In The Third Reign of Louis XIV. Edited by Julia Prest and Guy Rowlands. Routledge, 2017.

• "Crisis and Survival: Government in the Provinces during the Third Reign." In The Third Reign of Louis XIV. Edited by Julia Prest and Guy Rowlands. Forthcoming.
• “L’absolutisme de Louis XIV et la Franche-Comté.” Annales de Bourgogne 85 (2013), 291-305.
• “Kriegsfinanzierung im Frankreich Ludwigs XIV. Die Extraordinaire des Guerres in der Franche-Comté während des Spanischen Erbfolgekriegs.” Historische Zeitschrift 56 (2012), 55-86.
• Expansion and Crisis in Louis XIV's France: Franche-Comté and Absolute Monarchy, 1674-1715. University of Rochester Press, 2009.
• “Wartime Government in Franche-Comté and the De-Modernization of the French State, 1704-1715.” French Historical Studies 30:1 (Winter 2007), 21-47.
• “Judicial Politics, War Finance and Absolutism: the Parlement of Besançon and Venality of Office, 1700-1705.” French History 19 (December 2005), 440-462.