Postdoctoral researcher, Institute of Contemporary History at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), Paris 8 University, France
Margaux Dumas is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut du Temps Présent (Université Paris 8/CNRS). She holds a PhD in History and Art History from the Université Paris Cité and the Technische Universität Berlin. Her doctoral dissertation, Silent Witnesses. Looting of furnishings and artworks in occupied France and the implementation of restitution policies (1940-1950s), explored the looting of furnishings and artworks in occupied France and the implementation of restitution policies from 1940 to the 1950s. She has taught courses on provenance research, restitution, and art market law at institutions such as Université Panthéon-Assas and Sciences Po. Her publications focus on the history of looted cultural property, the materiality of memory, and the legal and historical dimensions of restitution. She has also worked with families to recover artworks looted during the Nazi Occupation of France.