I am interested in the effects of Jewish emancipation on the non-Jewish world, ranging across French, British, and Mediterranean settings. I have other interests, too, and I have published on the history of migration to Australia, and the Eurovision Song Contest.

My fourth and most recent book, The Kings of Algiers: How Two Jewish Families Shaped the Mediterranean World during the Napoleonic Wars and Beyond, was published in late 2023 by Princeton University Press.

I have two new projects: a history of the remaking of France after the Second World War through the prism of the runaway success of the Asterix comic series which, I will argue, became the national myth; and a history of Jews in the global pearl trade at the turn of the century, from Broome, to the jewellers of London and Paris, that brings Australia into histories of global trade networks, and internationalises the history of Australian Jewry.