Ph.D. Placements and Dissertation Titles

2022

  • Emily Shuman Ph.D in French Studies and French, 2022. "Embodied Aesthetics and Body Politics in French Rap."  Assistant Professor of Francophone Cultures, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures, Radbound University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.

2021

  • Danielle Beaujon, Ph.D. in French Studies and History, 2021. "Controlling the Casbah: Policing North Africans in Marseille and Algiers, 1918-1954". "Bridge to Faculty." Fellow, Assistant Professor,  Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago; Chicago, IL (as of 9/30/2021)
  • Elvan Sahin, Ph.D. in French Studies and History, 2021. "Children's Paris: An Urban History of Childhoods, 1900 - 1940". ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship with United Neighborhood Houses on Early Childhood Education and Childcare Policy and Advocacy; New York, NY (as of 9/30/2021)

2020

  • Allison Korinek, Ph.D. in French Studies and History, 2020. "Lost in Translation: Language and Colonial Rule in Nineteenth-Century French Algeria." Data Analyst, regional Transportation District (RTD), Denver, Colorado  (as of 09/28/2023)
  • Gabriella Lindsay, Ph.D. in French Studies and French, 2020. “Sexual Violence and the Legacy of the Algerian War in Literature and Film.” Visiting Assistant Professor of French at Bard; Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (as of 10/26/2021)

2019

  • Erik Meddles, PhD in French Studies and History, 2019.  "Appropriating the Indigenous Body to Republican Imperial Warfare: Power and Daily Life in French Indochina and the American Philippines, 1883-1919". Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Baruch College; Brooklyn, NY (as of 2/12/2020)
  • Samantha Presnal, Ph.D. in French Studies and French, 2019. "Made to Order: Culinary Instruction and the Formation of the Home Cook in Paris, 1871-1914." Awards Manager, James Beard Foundation, NY (as of 5/1/2023)

2018

  • Sarah Griswold, Ph.D. in French Studies and History, 2018. "In Search of Civilization: Archaeology and the French Mandate for Syria and Lebanon." Assistant Professor of History, Oklahoma State University; Stillwater, OK (as of 2/24/2021)
  • Whitney Krahn, Ph.D. in French Studies and French, 2018. French Dual Immersion Teacher, Park City School District; Park City, UT (as of 3/15/2022)
  • Ian Merkel, Ph.D. in French Studies and History, 2018. “Terms of Exchange: Brazilian Intellectuals and the Remaking of the French Social Sciences.” Appointed as Assistant Professor of Latin American History at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) (as of 9/28/2023)
  • Lisa Zivkovic, Ph.D. in French Studies and History, 2018. "Reconciling the European and American Approaches to Privacy Law: A Historical and Legal Analysis of Privacy Law and Data Communications Technology in the United States and Europe, 1970-2018." Associate in Cybersecurity + Data Privacy, National Security, and AI practice groups at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP and Affiliates, New York, NY (as of 11/2023)

2017

  • Alexander Arnold, Ph.D. in French Studies and History 2017. "Rethinking Economics in Modern France".  Assistant Professor, UCLA Law School Los Angeles, CA (as of 9/28/2023)
  • Aro Velmet, Ph.D. in French Studies and History 2017. "Pasteur's Empire: French Expertise, Colonialism, and Transnational Science, 1890-1940". Assistant Professor of History, University of Southern California; Los Angeles, CA (as of 2/24/2021)

2015

  • Elisabeth Fink, Ph.D. in French Studies and History 2015. "Elections and Political Mobilization in the Time of Decolonization: Voting in Postwar French West Africa." Editor, French Politics, Culture & Society at New York University; New York, NY (as of 2/24/2021)
  • Evan Spritzer, Ph.D. in French Studies and History 2015. "Politicizing French Radio: Crises, Communities, and Competing Voices 1934-1954." Adjunct Assistant Professor, Cooper Union; New York, NY (as of 2/24/2021)

2014

  • Lindsay Kaplan, Ph.D in French Studies and French 2014. "When Fiction Made History: Cultural Memory and the Fictional Representations of October 17, 1961." French Teacher and Advisor at Waynflete School; South Portland, ME (as of 2/24/2021)
  • Paul Sager, Ph.D. in French Studies and History 2014. "Indigenizing Indochina: Race, Class, and the French Colonial Employer-State, 1848-1945." Librarian for English and Romance Literatures, Hunter College; New York, NY (as of 2/24/2021)
  • Stella Amelie Vincenot, Ph.D in French Studies and French 2014. "Célébrer, Honorer, Commémorer: Democratic Political Culture in Post-Emancipation Guadeloupe." Professor of French, Horace Mann School; New York, NY (as of 2/24/2021)
  • Matthew Watkins, Ph.D. in French Studies and History 2014. "'You've Got To Be Modernistic': The Myth of Pierre Mendès France and the Modernization of France." Senior Writer, Center for Court Innovation; New York, NY (as of 2/24/2021)

2013

  • Vanessa Agard-Jones, Ph.D. in French Studies and Anthropology 2013. “Sovereign Intimacies: Scaling Sexual Politics in Martinique.” Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University; New York, NY (as of 2/24/2021)
  • Charlotte Legg-Chopin, Ph.D. in French Studies and History 2013. “Imagining the Peuple Nouveau: Medicine and the Press in French Algeria, 1870-1914.” Head of Department and Lecturer in French Studies at the University of London Institute in Paris; Paris, France (as of 2/24/2021)
  • Phoebe Maltz Bovy, Ph.D. in French Studies and French 2013. "Embrasser les Juifs": Jews and Intermarriage in Nineteenth-Century France (1792-1906). Freelance Writer; Toronto, Canada (as of 2/24/2021)
  • Jessica Pearson, Ph.D. in French Studies and History 2013. “From the Civilizing Mission to International Development: France, the United Nations, and the Politics of Family Health in Postwar Africa, 1940-1960.”Associate Professor of European History, Macalester College; Saint Paul, MN (as of 10/2023)
  • Michelle Pinto, Ph.D. in French Studies and History 2013. "Employment, Education, and the Reconfiguration of Empire: Africanization in Postwar French Africa." Assistant Professor in the Intellectual Heritage Program, Temple University; Philadelphia, PA (as of 2/24/2021)
  • Chelsea Stieber, Ph.D. in French Studies and French 2013. “Regional, Cosmopolitan, Indigenous: Writing Cultural Nationalisms in Early 20th-Century Haiti.” Associate Professor, Kathryn B. Gore Chair in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. (as of 10/2023)

2012

  • Emily Craighead Teising, Ph.D. in French Studies and French 2012. “Legal Ambitions: Representations of the Legal Professions in France, 1830-1850.” Instructor of French at Northern Illinois University; DeKalb, IL (as of 2/24/2021)
  • Kari Evanson, Ph.D. in French Studies and French 2012 “Writing Scandal: Popular Media and the Bagnes d'Enfants, 1920-1945.” Senior Lecturer in French, French Language Coordinator at Fordham University; New York, NY (as of 2/21/2021)
  • Georgiana Perlea, Ph.D. in French Studies and French 2012. "Quarante-huitards du XXe siècle. Le marxisme dissident des revues Socialisme ou barbarie et Arguments, 1956-1962." Independent Scholar; New York, NY (as of 2/24/2021)
  • Stephanie Ponsavady, Ph.D. in French Studies and French 2012. “Moteurs de Mécontentement et de Désire: Automobiles et routes en Indochine coloniale (1897-1939).” Associate Professor of French at Wesleyan University; Middletown, CT (as of 2/24/2021)

2011

  • Alexandra Borer, Ph.D. in French Studies 2011. “L’Experience Urbaine Dans “Les Passagers Du Roissy-Express” de François Maspero “Zones et “La Cloture” de Jean Rolin: La question de la Frontiere.” Lecturer in French at Columbia University; New York, NY (as of 2/19/2020)
    Heidi Kasevich, Ph.D. in French Studies 2011. “A Civilized Yogi: The life of French Explorer Alexandra David Neel.” Director of Education, Quiet Revolution Foundation; Nyack, NY (as of 2/22/2021)
  • Kathryn Kleppinger, Ph.D. in French Studies, 2011. “Why The Beur Novel? Writers and journalists interact to construct a new French voice.” Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, George Washington University; Washington D.C. (as of 2/22/2021)
  • Matthew Wendeln, Ph.D. in French Studies 2011. “Contested Territory Regional Development in France, 1934-1968.” Project Manager: Low-carbon urban strategies chez Efficacity; Paris, France (as of 3/8/2021)

2010

  • Lisa Gentile, Ph.D. in French Studies 2010. “The Battle for Health in France: The role of ideas and discourse in constructing the political economy of health policy reform (1990-2010).” English Language Lecturer at Université Jean-François Champollion d'Albi; Albi, France (as of 2/22/2021)
  • Rachel Wimpee, Ph.D. in French Studies 2010. “Reactionary or Modern? The devote in fact and fiction in late nineteenth-century.” Assistant Director of Research & Education at Rockefeller Archive Center; New York, NY (as of 2/22/2021)

2009

  • John Murphy, Ph.D. in French Studies and Anthropology 2009. “A Question of Class: Struggling youth and the concept of Social destiny in contemporary France.” Associate Professor, Department of French, Gettysburg College; Gettysburg, PA (as of 2/22/2021)

2008

  • Jelena Karanovic, Ph.D in French Studies and Anthropology 2008. “Sharing Publics: Democracy, cooperation and free software advocacy in France.” Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University; New York, NY (as of 2/22/2021)
  • Wendy Leynse, Ph.D. in French Studies and Anthropology 2008. “Lunchtime in Loireville: Learning to become a culturally competent member of French society through food.” Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Queens College, CUNY; New York, NY (as of 2/22/2021)
  • Arthur Plaza, Ph.D. in French Studies and History 2008. “From Christian Militants to Republican Renovators: The Third Ralliement of Catholics in postwar France. 1944-1965.” Head of Department, Professor of History, Lycée Français de New York; New York, NY (as of 2/22/2021)

2007

  • Nils Froment, Ph.D. in French Studies and French 2007. “Mots pour Maux: Maladies nerveuses et écrits contagieux sous le second empire et la troisieme république.” Senior French Language Lecturer, New York University; New York, NY (as of 2/22/2021)

2006

  • Gerarde Magloire-Danton, Ph.D. in French Studies 2006. “Ambassadors at Dawn: Haitian thinkers in the French Colonial context of the 19th and 20th centuries: The example of Jean Prince-Mars (1876-1969)." Professor of English, Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile; Toulouse, France (as of 2/22/2021)

2005

  • Joshua Humphreys, Ph.D. French Studies and History 2005. “Servants of Social Progress: Democracy, capitalism and social reform in France, 1914-1940.” President and Senior Fellow at the Croatan Institute; Durham, NC (as of 2/22/2021)
  • Nicole Rudolph, Ph.D. in French Studies and History 2005. “At Home in Postwar France: The design and construction of domestic space, 1945-1975.” Associate Dean for Student Engagement at the Honors College of Adelphi University; Garden City, NY (as of 10/26/2021)

2003

  • Lisa Maguire, Ph.D. in French Studies and History 2003. “Contingent Obligations: Societe Generale and the French State 1945-1981.” Director, Risk Control, UBS Investment Bank; New York, NY (as of 2/22/2021)
  • Sylvie L. Waskiewicz, Ph.D. in French Studies 2003. “Negotiation Culture: American films in postwar France, 1945-1954.” Editor and Content Strategist, Independent Consultant; San Francisco, CA (as of 2/22/2021)

2002

  • Brian Arganbright, Ph.D. in French Studies 2002. “Writing the People: Charles-Louise Philippe and the culture of populism during the Belle Epoque.” Professor of French, Transylvania University; Lexington, KY (as of 2/22/2021)
  • Elizabeth Campbell Karlsgodt, Ph.D. in French Studies and History 2002. “National Treasures: Cultural heritage and the French state during the second World War.” Associate Professor of History, University of Denver; Denver, CO (as of 2/22/2021)
  • Harry Gamble, Ph.D. in French Studies 2002. “Developing Cultures: Debates over education in French West Africa, 1930-1950.” Professor of French, College of Wooster; Wooster, OH (as of 2/22/2021)
  • Katherine Opello, Ph.D. in French Studies 2002. “Ideas and Elections: Explaining the timing and nature of the French Socialist party’s gender-based quota.” Maître de Langues, Université Catholique de Louvain; Louvain, Belgium (as of 2/22/2021)
  • William Poulin-Deltour, Ph.D. in French Studies 2002. “Le Gai Paris Gay? Making sense of American influence on French gay activism." Associate Professor of French, Middlebury College; Middlebury, VT (as of 2/22/2021)

2001

  • Julie Fette, Ph.D. in French Studies 2001. “Xenophobia and Exclusion in the Professions in Interwar France.” Associate Professor of French Studies at Rice University; Houston, TX (as of 2/22/2021)
  • Isabelle Genest, Ph.D. in French Studies, 2001. “Intellectuels et Decadence Durant La Belle Epoque: Le cas D’Octave Mirbeau et Paul Adam.” Program Administrator at the Institute of French Studies, New York University; New York, NY (as of 2/22/2021)
  • Scott Gunther, Ph.D. in French Studies 2001. “The Elastic Closet: Legal censure and auto-censure of homosexuality in France." Professor of French at Wellesley College; Wellesley, MA (as of 2/22/2021)
  • John Westbrook, Ph.D. in French Studies 2001. “Reinventions of the Literary Avant-Garde in Interwar France: Documents between Surrealism and Ethnography.” Associate Professor of French, Bucknell University; Lewisburg, PA (as of 2/22/2021)

2000

  • Marie C. Benedict, Ph.D. in French Studies, 2000. “Agriculture and Administrative Elites in Third Republic France: The Institut National Agronomique 1876-1940.” International Baccalaureate English Language and Literature Instructor at Gymnase Jean Sturm: Strasbourg, France (as of 2/22/2021)
    G. Daniel Cohen, Ph.D. in French Studies and History 2000. “The West and the Displaced, 1945-1951: The post-war roots of political refugees.” Samuel W. & Goldye Marian Spain Associate Professor of History at Rice University; Houston, TX (as of 2/22/2021)
  • Mary Lewis, Ph.D. in French Studies 2000. “The Company of Strangers: Immigration and Citizenship in interwar Lyon and Marseille.” Walton Goelet Professor of French History at Harvard University; Cambridge, MA (as of 2/22/2021)
  • Julia Miller, Ph.D. in French Studies 2000. “The Romance of Regulation: The movement against state-regulated prostitution in France, 1871-1946.” Technical Officer III, Global Education at FHI 360; Washington D.C. (as of 2/22/2021)

1999

  • Sheila Hallsted-Baumert, Ph.D. in French Studies 1999. “The Metropolitan: Technology, space and the creation of urban identities in Fin de siècle France.” Strategic Advisor in College Admissions and International Education Development at Revolution Prep; Phoenix, AZ (as of 2/22/2021)
  • John Savage, Ph.D. in French Studies 1999. “Advocates of the Republic: The Paris bar and legal culture in early Third Republic France, 1870-1914.” Associate Professor of History, Lehigh University; Bethlehem, PA (as of 2/22/2021)

1998

  • Catherine Gillot, Ph.D. in French Studies 1998. “La France au Miroir de L’Amérique Dans Les Années 1920 (Morand, Duhamel).”
  • Jonathan Gosnell, Ph.D. in French Studies 1998. “The Politics of Frenchness in Colonial Algeria, 1930-1954.” Professor of French Studies, Smith College; Northampton, MA (as of 2/22/2021)
  • Paula Schwartz, Ph.D. in French Studies 1998. “Women, Resistance and Communism in France, 1939-1945.” Retired Professor of French, Middlebury College; Middlebury, VT (as of 2/22/2021)

1997

  • Christopher Thompson, Ph.D. in French Studies 1997. “The Third Republic on Wheels: A social, cultural, and political history of bicycling in France from the 19th century to World War II.” Professor of History, Ball State University; Muncie, IN (as of 2/22/2021)

1996

  • Mark Ingram, Ph.D. in French Studies and Anthropology 1996. “Performing Culture: A French ‘popular theatre’ troupe in local, national, and European perspective.” Professor of French at Goucher College; Baltimore, MD (as of 2/22/2021)

1995

  • Susan Edwards-Edmundson, Ph.D. in French Studies 1995 “Aesthetics and Politics: Film Culture and the extreme right in France 1930-1944.” Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies, University of Tennessee; Knoxville, TN.
  • John Hogge, Ph.D. in French Studies and History 1995. “Arbitrage, Securité, Desarmement: French Security and the League of Nations, 1920-1925.” History Teacher, Bernards High School, New Jersey; Bernardsville, NJ (as of 2/22/2021)
  • Helen Laurendeau-Johnson, Ph.D. in French Studies and Sociology 1995.”French News Magazines in America 1974-1984: Influence of political ideology.”

1994

  • Ruth Merrill Eldridge, Ph.D. in French Studies 1994 “Decentralization in the French Department: The Defferre Legislation.”
  • Susan Terrio, Ph.D. in French Studies 1994. “Handmade in France: Discourses of skill, tradition, and authenticity among contemporary artisanal chocolatiers.” Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and French Studies at Georgetown University; Washington D.C. (as of 2/22/2021)

1992

  • David I. Beriss, Ph.D. in French Studies and Anthropology 1992. "To Not Be French: Counter-Discourses of Antillean identity in France." Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, University of New Orleans; New Orleans, LA (as of 2/22/2021)
  • Janet R. Horne, Ph.D. in French Studies 1992. “Republican Social Reform in France: The case of the Musee Social, 1894-1914.” Chair and Associate Professor of French, University of Virginia; Charlottesville, VA (as of 2/22/2021)
  • Amy G. Mazur, Ph.D. in French Studies 1992. “Policy Formation and the State in France: Equal Employment Legislation for Women, 1965-1988.” Professor, Department of Political Science, Washington State University; Pullman, WA (as of 2/22/2021)
  • Shanny Peer, Ph.D. in French Studies 1992. “Modern Representations of Tradition in the 1937 Paris International Exposition: Regions, peasants and folklore.” Director of La Maison Française, Columbia University; New York, NY (as of 2/22/2021)

1991

  • Mary Rosalie Fisher, Ph.D. in French Studies 1991. “Models for Manners: Etiquette books and etiquette in modern France.” Professor of French, Saint Ann's School; Brooklyn, NY (as of 2/22/2021)

1989

  • Venita Datta, Ph.D. in French Studies 1989. “La Revue Blanche” (1889-1903) L'Intellectuels and politics in France.” Professor of French, Wellesley College; Wellesley, MA (as of 2/22/2021)

1988

  • Michele C. Cone, Ph.D. in French Studies 1988. “Art and Politics in France During the German Occupation, 1940-1944.” Fellow of the Institute for the Humanities at NYU; New York, NY (as of 2/22/2021)
  • Philip Nwankwo, Ph.D. in French Studies 1988. “Franco-African Relations: The case of Cameroon in the Postcolonial Period, 1960-1985.” Teacher, World Language Department, Plainfield High School; Plainfield, NJ (as of 2/22/2021)
  • Willa Silverman, Ph.D. in French Studies 1988. “GYP: Right-Wing Anarchist and the Fin Du Siecle”. Emeritus Malvin E. and Lea P. Bank Professor of French and Jewish Studies, Penn State University; State College, PA (as of 10/2023)
  • Robert Turnbull, Ph.D. in French Studies 1988. “French Reformed Protestantism: The problems of social integration, doctrinal crises, and institutional identity.” Retired Professor of French, Evangel University; Springfield MO (as of 2/22/2021)