Melissa Byrnes

Melissa K Byrnes joined LG&M in January 2017 (after a couple of guest posts in 2015). She is Professor of History at Southwestern University, where she has been teaching European and world history since 2008.

Byrnes’s research focuses on migration, activism, rights, race, religion, imperialism, and decolonization. Her first book, Making Space: Neighbors, Officials, and North African migrants in the Suburbs of Paris and Lyon (University of Nebraska Press, 2023), examines post-1945 community activism around migrant rights and welfare. She has published peer-reviewed articles on how urban development programs excluded or included North Africans in local communities, the ways French officials supported Muslim practices to shore up their imperial power, the effects of imperial and racial ideologies on Franco-Portuguese diplomacy during decolonization, and transnational activist student networks between France and Portugal around the events of May-June 1968. She has also co-edited a volume on Fertility, Family and Social Welfare: The Colonial Politics of Population (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).

Byrnes received her BA in History and French from Amherst College in 200o, her MS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in 2003, and her PhD in History from Georgetown University in 2008. She lives in Austin, TX most of the year and stays sane through lots of yoga, good food, and escapist fiction.

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