Dr. Miranda Sachs

Biography

Miranda Sachs is a historian specializing in Modern European history with a particular emphasis on French history and the study of childhood. Her current research focuses on the formation of categories related to childhood and youth in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France. She has authored a book titled 'Age Work: Working-Class Childhood in the Republic of Paris', published in 2023 by Oxford University Press. This book critically examines the regulation of children’s work, education, and delinquency, and how these factors reinforced inequalities in childhood experiences. Additionally, she is engaged in a research project titled 'Love and Identity in Contemporary France', which explores youth culture, dating, and immigration in France from the 1970s to the 1990s. Her recent publications have appeared in the 'French Historical Studies' and the 'Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth', and she has contributed to an edited volume discussing France during the Era of Global War. Dr. Sachs earned her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2017 and previously worked as an Assistant Professor at Texas State University before her appointment at Texas A&M University.

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