Nancy L. GREEN

Nancy L. Green, born in Chicago, is a professor of history at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, and a member of the Center for Historical Research. The holder of a doctorate from the University of Chicago and the Université Paris VII, she specializes in the history of migration, comparative history, as well as French and American social history. Her monographs include Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work. A century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris (Durham: Duke University Press, 1997); Repenser les migrations (Paris: PUF, 2002); The Other Americans in Paris: Businessmen, Countesses, Wayward Youth, 1880-1941 (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2014); and The Limits of Transnationalism (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019). She has also co-edited a number of collective works including: Citizenship and Those who Leave: The Politics of Emigration and Expatriation (with François Weil; Urbana, University of Illinois Press, 2007), Histoire de l’immigration et question coloniale en France (with Marie Poinsot; Paris La Documentation française, 2008); and A Century of Transnationalism: Immigrants and their Homeland Connections (with Roger Waldinger; Urbana, University of Illinois Press (coll. “Studies of World Migrations”), 2016).

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[Illustration: painting by J. Béraud]
After the Service at Holy Trinity Church (later the American Cathedral of Paris), Jean Béraud, circa 1900, Paris, Musée Carnavalet. Source: Wikimedia Commons.

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