UC Center Program
Faculty - Fall 2004
Faculty

John TAIN
  PCC 122. French Visual Culture

Frédéric CHARILLON
  PCC 115. France and European Integration
Charillon teaches at Sciences Po, Paris, and the Université de Clermont I, where he is Director of the Foreign Policy Institute and Co-Director of the DESS of Diplomatic Careers. After receiving his doctorate in Political Studies at Sciences Po in 1996, he served as an Associate Analyst at the Royal United Services Institute and Senior Associate Member of Saint Anthony's College, Oxford University. A specialist on foreign policy, he has authored or edited five books, including La Politique Étrangère à l'épreuve du transnational. La France et la Grande-Bretagne dans la guerre du Golfe (L'Harmattan, Paris, 1999) and La politique étrangère : nouveaux regards (Paris: Presses de Sciences Po, 2002).

Stéphane DUFOIX
  PCC 116. Contemporary French Society and Politics
Stéphane Dufoix received his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Paris I, and is now Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at Nanterre. A specialist on immigration and asylum, he has taught for UC Paris since 2002. The co-author of several important governmental reports, he has written two books, Politiques d'Exil: Hongrois, Polonais et Tchécoslovaques en France après 1945 (Paris: PUF, 2002); Les diasporas (Paris: PUF, 2003), and is co-editor (with Patrick Weil) of L'esclavage, la colonisation et après... (Paris, PUF, forthcoming 2004). He is currently a research associate at the Centre d'Histoire Sociale du XXème siècle (CNRS-Paris- I).

Alison RICE
  PCC 123. Paris as Literature
Alison Rice received her Ph.D. in French and Francophone Studies from UCLA in 2003. She also holds a post-master's degree in French literature from the University of Paris 7. She has taught a number of courses in French language, culture, and literature, including "Mapping the Mother: A Multicultural Literary Approach" at UCLA and courses in cultural studies and literature for USC abroad. Among her recent publications are an interview with Julia Kristeva ("Julia Kristeva: An Interview on Forgiveness with Alison Rice." Introduction, Transcription of Interview, English Translation. Publications of the Modern Language Association (PMLA), Volume 117, number 2 (March 2002): 278-295) and an essay on Assia Djebar that received the Florence Howe Award for Feminist Scholarship ("The Improper Name: Ownership and Authorship in the Literary Production of Assia Djebar." Assia Djebar: Studien zur Literatur und Geschichte des Maghreb. Ed. Ernstpeter Ruhe (Verlag Königshausen & Neumann, 2001): 49-77). Alison Rice is a Chateaubriand Fellow for the 2004-2005 academic year in Paris.

Mark MEIGS
  PCC 111. Histories of Paris
Mark Meigs received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1990, and since 1994 has worked as Associate Professor of American History at the Institute d'Etudes Anglophones. He has published Optimism at Armaggedon, Voices of American Participants in the First World War, London and New York (New York, 1997) and several articles on the experience of American Soldiers on the European battlefields of World War I. His current research is on cross-cultural French and American experiences in the business world and on comparisons of French and American domestic service in the nineteenth century. He has taught at UC Paris since 2002.

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Sonal Desai
Sonal is a graduate student in the department of Political Science at UCSD, specializing in International Relations and Comparative Politics. Her dissertation examines the reasons for which authority over some policy areas has been shifted to the European Union level, while authority over other areas has been retained at the national level.

David Namie
David is a graduate student in the department of Literature at UCSC, specializing in the nineteenth-century French and English novel. His dissertation will examine constructions and representations of masculinity and domesticity at the turn of the twentieth century.

Aaron Freundschuh