Miranda Sachs

Miranda Sachs is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University specializing in Modern European and French history, with a focus on childhood, youth, gender, labor, and urban history. She holds a Ph.D. from Yale University (2017) and previously taught at Texas State University. Her research examines the socio-historical construction of childhood and youth in 19th- and 20th-century France, particularly in contexts of labor, education, and inequality.

Her 2023 book, An Age to Work: Working-Class Childhood in Third Republic Paris, published by Oxford University Press, explores how regulatory frameworks around children’s work reinforced social disparities. She is currently researching Love and Identity in Contemporary France, analyzing youth culture, dating, and immigration from the 1970s–1990s. Her work has been published in French Historical Studies and The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, and she contributed to France in the Era of Global War and The Washington Post.