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Margaret Andersen is an Associate Professor of European History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, within the College of Arts and Sciences' Department of History. Her work focuses on Modern France and its empire, particularly pronatalist policies, demographic shifts, and colonial settlement strategies. She holds a BA from Occidental College, and both an MA and PhD from the University of Iowa (2009).
Her research explores how French imperial power influenced demographic debates during the Third Republic (1870-1940), emphasizing colonial settlement and family policies. She has investigated pronatalism’s intersection with medicine, gender roles, and legal frameworks shaping family definitions in 20th-century France. Current projects analyze demographic policy from 1920–1980, examining state interventions in family formation and their entanglement with medical advancements like infertility treatments.
Her publications bridge imperial, social, and medical history, including Regeneration through Empire (2015) and co-edited volumes on fertility and empire. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Philosophical Society, her work highlights intersections between policy, science, and colonial governance.
Teaching spans Modern European surveys, French Revolution, Algerian Revolution, and WWII. She advises on graduate seminars addressing gender and imperialism. Her research underscores how demographic anxieties shaped colonial and national identity formations.
