Fields of research

• European intellectual history in the long Eighteenth Century, especially France and Britain
• Cultural Transfers and Intellectual networks
• Europe and the Islamic world

Current research projects

• The Natural History of Man in the Eighteenth Century
• Biographical dictionary of eighteenth-century translators
• The correspondence and networks of Pierre Des Maizeaux

Selected recent publications

• Scotland and Enlightenment. National and International Perspectives, edited with Jean-François Dunyach, Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, 2015 (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2015:08.
• L'âme des Lumières. Le débat sur l'être humain entre religion et science Angleterre-France (1690-1760), Champ Vallon (Collection Epoques), 2013.
• Edited with Simon Burrows and Edmond Dziembowski, Cultural Transfers: France and Britain in the long eighteenth century, Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, 2010 (SVEC 2010:4).
• Bodies of Thought: Science, Religion, and the Soul in the Early Enlightenment, Oxford University Press, 2008.

Collective publishing projects:

• Edition of Book XI of Guillaume-Thomas Raynal, Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes, Centre international d’étude du XVIIIe siècle, Ferney-Voltaire.

• Section editor for France (17^th-18^th centuries), Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 1500-1900 (CMR 1900), University of Birmingham. To be published online and by Brill.