Miranda Sachs

Miranda Sachs is a historian of Modern European with a particular emphasis on French history and the history of childhood. In her research, she studies the formation of the categories of childhood and youth in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France. Her book, An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris, was published in 2023 with Oxford University Press. The book examines how the regulation of children’s work, education, and delinquency reinforced inequalities within childhood. She is currently working on Love and Identity in Contemporary France, which looks at youth culture, dating, and immigration in France from the 1970s through the 1990s.

Her recent publications have appeared in French Historical Studies and The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. She has also contributed to the edited volume France in the Era of Global War and to The Washington Post.

Dr. Sachs received her Ph.D. from Yale University in 2017. Prior to coming to Texas A&M, she was an Assistant Professor at Texas State University.