Professor of History Melissa Byrnes presented a paper titled “French Anti-Salazarism in the 1960s: Allying against Imperial Violence” at the Global Consortium for French Historical Studies in Paris, organized on the theme of “Resistance.”

Professor of History Melissa Byrnes contributed to a published roundtable review of Jack Snyder’s book Human Rights for Pragmatists  for H-Diplo and the Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum. It can be read here.

Professor of History Melissa Byrnes co-led a workshop on “Building a Small Liberal Arts College History Department,” as well as a mentoring session for early career scholars interested in working at a small liberal arts college, at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA). She is about to begin a term as co-chair of the AHA working group on small liberal arts colleges. She also currently serves on the AHA’s Nancy Lyman Roelker Mentorship Award committee.

Professor of History Melissa Byrnes convened a salon session, “Engaging the Public through French History,” at the Western Society for French History’s fiftieth-anniversary annual conference in San Francisco. She also chaired and commented on a session about “Managing Gender and Families in Mid-Twentieth-Century France.”

Professor of History Melissa Byrnes has been appointed as a production editor for H-France Review.