Empire of Debt: Haiti and France in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World
Arielle is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Pennsylvania where she studies slavery and emancipation in the Atlantic world with a focus on France and its empire. She is broadly interested in histories of political economy, capitalism, national sovereignty, abolition, reparations, and imperialism.
Her dissertation addresses the specific case of the 1825 Haitian Indemnity, in which she explores Haiti's sovereign debt in the aftermath of the Haitian Revolution. In it she argues for the international significance of the debt for finance, monetary systems, nation-making, and political thought in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Her writing about art and history has been published in The American Historical Review, Slavery & Abolition and the Los Angeles Review of Books.