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New York University
Faculty of Arts and Science
College of Arts and Science
Graduate School of Arts and Science

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Faculty Members
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Edward Berenson, Professor of History and French Studies; Director, Institute of French Studies.
Ph.D. 1981 (history), University of Rochester; B.A. 1971 (sociology), Princeton.

Research interests: Modern French social and cultural history; modern European history.

Herrick Chapman, Associate Professor of History and French Studies; Director of Graduate Study, Institute of French Studies. Sabbatical 07-08
Ph.D. 1983, M.A. 1977 (history), California (Berkeley); M.P.A. 1972 (public and international affairs); B.A. 1971 (public and international affairs), Princeton.

Research interests: 20th-century French history; European social and economic history; the comparative history of public policy

Damien Babet, Agrégation (Economic and Social Sciences); MA (sociology), Paris 10 Nanterre

Research interests: sociabilité au travail à Eurodisney; social networks dynamics.

Michel Beaujour, French;
Agrégé de l'Université 1957, Licence ès Lettres 1954, Paris.

Major Interests: Renaissance; contemporary poetry; literary theory; stylistics. Renaissance literature; rhetoric; poetics; comparative and ethno-poetics.

Charles Affron, French;
Ph.D. 1963, Yale; B.A. 1957, Brandeis.

Research interests: U.S. and European cinema; French romanticism.

Stéphane Gerson, Assistant Professor of French and French Studies.
Ph.D. 1997, M.A. 1992 (history), University of Chicago; B.A. 1988 (philosophy), Haverford College.

Research interests: Cultural history of nineteenth-century France, territorial identities, literature and history.

Tony Judt, Erich Maria Remarque Professor of European Studies; Profesor, History; Director, Remarque Institute.
Ph.D. 1972 (history); B.A. 1969 (history), Cambridge.

Research interests: French history; Modern European history; the history of ideas.

Susan Carol Rogers, Associate Professor, Anthropology.
Ph.D. 1979, M.A. 1973 (anthropology), Northwestern; M.S. 1983 (agricultural economics), Illinois (Urbana- Champaign); B.A. 1972 (anthropology), Brown.

Research interests: Anthropology of contemporary Europe; agricultural development in Europe and the United States; tourism.

Martin A. Schain, Professor of Politics; Director, Center for European Studies.
Ph.D. 1971 (politics), Cornell; B.A. 1961 (politics), New York.

Research interests: Politics and immigration in France, Europe, and the United States; politics of the extreme right in France; political parties in France.

Richard Sieburth, Professor of Comparative Literature, French
Ph.D. 1976 (comparative literature), Harvard; B.A. 1970 (comparative literature), Chicago.

Major Interests: Romanticism, modernism, history and theory of translation.

Kenneth E. Silver, Professor of Fine Arts.
Ph.D. 1981, M.A. 1975, Yale; B.A. 1973, New York.

Research interests: Modern art and social history in France.

Jerrold Seigel, Willliam R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of History.
Ph.D. 1964 (history), Princeton; B.A. (magana cum laude) 1958 (history and literature) Harvard.

Research interests: Social and cultural theory; history of selfhood ad subjectivity; relations between art and society.

John Shovlin, Assistant-Professor of History. Ph.D. 1998 (history), University of Chicago, B.A. (summa cum laude) 1991 (history) Harvard.

Research interests: Old regime France and French Revolution History, with a particular interest in politics, political economy, and international relations.

George R. Trumbull IV, Assistant Professor//Faculty Fellow at NYU's IFS; Ph.D. (History), Yale, A.B. (History), Princeton University, Certificates in African Studies, French Studies, and Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University.

Research interests: Cultural and intellectual history of colonialism, and environmental history.

Frédéric Viguier, Research Scholar, IFS; Assistant Director - Outreach, IFS, interim DGS 07-08. Agrégation de Philosophie, Ecole Normale Supérieure ( 1994); D.E.A., 1997 (social sciences), Ecole Normale Supérieure/Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris).

Research interests: Sociology of the Welfare State,
Sociology of Labor, Political Sociology and Anthropology.