My current research continues to examine how women and families acquired, exercised, and transmitted power in eighteenth-century France. I am especially interested in the interaction of property, inheritance, kinship, marriage, business, correspondence, and institutional relationships, and in forms of economic and social power that formal legal categories do not fully capture.

This work builds outward from my dissertation’s focus on married women’s property and economic autonomy, widening the lens from legal capacity alone to the family and social relationships through which resources, opportunities, status, and authority moved.