Jason Cavallari is a seventh-year doctoral candidate in modern French History at Boston College.  He has taught courses on European and World History at several institutions in the Boston area.  His research interests include the history of deviance, the history of sexuality, and modern European cultural/intellectual history.  His dissertation is on perceptions of the deviant in late nineteenth-century France, dealing broadly with cultural interpretations of what constitutes the abnormal and the normal from newspapers, to “elite” literature, to pornography, to popular theater, to medico-legal texts.  He currently lives in Newton with his partner and their cat.

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