#  Mary D. Lewis 

Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. 

Robert Walton Goelet Professor of French History, Department of History, Harvard University; Faculty Affiliate, Harvard Law School.

 

 

 



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**Research interests:** European overseas empires and their aftermaths, eighteenth century to present; modern France; French Empire in the Caribbean, South America, and North Africa; decolonization; sovereignty and legal pluralism; and international migration and citizenship.



 

 

 





 

 

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