Educational History:
 BA, Seattle University, 1969 
 MA, Rutgers University, 1970
 PhD, Rutgers University, 1973
 Università degli studi di Firenze (Italian language), 1972
 Newberry Library, Family and Community History Institute, 1974
 Middlebury College, The French School (gradute seminars), 1982

Professional Experience:
 Professor, History, College of the Holy Cross, since 1973
 Chair, Department of History, 2000-2002
 Director, College Honors Program, 1989-93
 Director, Women's Studies Program, 1996-98
 Faculty Coordinator, Environmental Studies Program, 1999-2001
 Board of Editors, Journal of Social History, since 1980
 Executive Council, Society for French History, 1986-89
 Board of Editors, French Historical Studies, 1996-98

Fields: 
 Modern France 
 Modern Italy 
 Comparative Women's History 
 Environmental History 

Selected Publications: 
The Domestic Revolution: The Modernisation of Household Service in England and France, 1820-1920. London: Croom Helm, 1977

"Women's Work and Economic Modernization," Journal of Modern History, XLIX, no. 2 (June 1977) 

"The Victorian Nanny," The Victorian Family, A.S.Wohl, ed. London:  Croom Helm, 1977 

"The Long Road Home: Women's Work during Industrialization," Becoming Visible: Women in European History, Renate Bridenthal and Claudia Koonz,eds. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1977, reprinted in The Industrial Revolution and Work in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Lenard Berlanstein, ed. New York: Routledge, 1992 

"A World of Women: Department Stores and the Evolution of Women's Employment, 1870-1920," French Historical Studies, X, no. 4  (Fall 1978); reprinted in Social History of Western Civilization, vol. II, Richard Golden, ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992 

"French Women and Trade Unionism: The First Hundred Years," The World of Women's Trade Unionism, Norbert Soldon, ed. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985 

"Public Authority and Private Lives: Divorce After the Revolution," French Historical Studies, XVIII, no. 1(Spring 1992) 

"Divorce and the Republican Family," Gender and the Politics of Social Reform in France, 1870-1914, Elinor Accampo, Rachel Fuchs, Mary Lynn Stewart, eds. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995