Mary Lewis

Historian

Contact Information
Phone: (617) 495-4303 x235
E-Mail: mdlewis@fas.harvard.edu


Biographical Statement

Lewis is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard, where she teaches in the history department. Her book, The Boundaries of the Republic: Migrant Rights and the Limits of Universalism in France, 1918–1940, was published in 2007. She is currently working on a project entitled “Divided Rule: French Conquest, Tunisian Sovereignty, and the Imperial Game in North Africa,” which explores the ways in which the international order in Europe and the Tunisian civic order mutually constituted one another. An article based on this project, “Geographies of Power: The Tunisian Civic Order, Jurisdictional Politics, and Imperial Rivalry in the Mediterranean, 1881–1935” is forthcoming in the Journal of Modern History. This fall, Lewis is C. Douglas Dillon Fellow and Distinguished Research Faculty Associate at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. She will be on research leave for the 2007–2008 academic year.