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Jeffrey S. Ravel studies the history of French European political culture from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. He is the author of 'Would-Be Commoner: A Tale of Deception, Murder, and Justice in Seventeenth Century France' (Houghton Mifflin, 2008) and 'Contested Parterre: The Public Theater and French Political Culture, 1680-1791' (Cornell University Press, 1999). Currently, he is working on the history of French playing cards and their relationship with political regimes from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Ravel co-directs the Comédie-Française Registers Project, a collaborative digital humanities venture with institutions including MIT, New York University, University of Victoria, Sorbonne, and Université de Paris-Nanterre. He co-edited an online, open access, bilingual volume of essays inspired by this project titled 'Databases, Revenues, and Repertory: The French Stage Online, 1680-1793' (MIT Press, 2020). Additionally, he served as President of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies from 2019 to 2020 and as Co-President of the Society for French Historical Studies from 2012 to 2013. He was also the head of the MIT History Faculty from 2015 to 2020.