Molly Michelmore

Molly Michelmore is a visiting scholar at EHESS, affiliated with Mondes Américains. She is an Americanist historian specializing in 20th-century U.S. political and social history, with a focus on tax resistance, citizenship politics, and gendered policy debates.

• Lecturer on anti-war tax resistance during the Vietnam era
• Researcher on intersections of taxation and civil rights
• Expert on gendered tax policies and their political implications
• Analyst of welfare rights movements and taxpayer identities

Her work explores how tax systems became battlegrounds for citizenship claims, linking grassroots activism (e.g., National Welfare Rights Organization) to national policy shifts. She analyzes how the post-WWII income tax framework enabled both pacifist protest and conservative anti-government rhetoric.

The lectures she delivered in 2017 cover tax resistance as a pacifist strategy, taxpayer identity in citizenship debates, marriage tax politics, and welfare rights advocacy. These works highlight taxation's role in shaping American political discourse across ideological lines.