THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF PARIS FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS 2018 Professor Ziad Majed presenting as part of the student-organized Migration Conference at the Hôtel de Talleyrand, May 2018 1 FOREWORD The many achievements of AUP’s faculty have led to 2018 being another landmark year for the University’s growing academic reputation. This brochure, which presents inspiring interdisciplinary research from across the liberal arts, is evidence of the full depth and breadth of scholarship at AUP. The work produced by faculty compellingly 15 addresses many of the world’s most pressing books issues, most probing questions and most important challenges, while encouraging students to engage with these concerns both inside and outside the classroom. The scholarly output of AUP’s faculty covers a more than wide array of subjects, and their research findings have an impact at both the local and global scale. Their creative endeavors are equally important; 140 AUP’s artists, writers and filmmakers contribute articles at an international level, producing works that tackle major societal questions while maintaining a social conscience. An important element of faculty success is evident in the collaborations that take place between over faculty and students – be this on study trips, via research projects or through mentoring student clubs. An inquisitive and intellectual pedagogical 240 approach, such as the one upheld by our AUP presentations In recent years, AUP has emerged community, allows creativity to flourish. An as a leader in the American emphasis on respecting diverse viewpoints and practicing varied methods of inquiry further allows international university for innovation in this collaborative work. community, a visible and As you will quickly discover by reading these increasingly respected institution pages, the AUP faculty is committed to ensuring in France, and as an innovative their academic and creative pursuits augment laboratory for American-style the learning experience, helping prepare students international education. to assume their places as global citizens as they embark on international careers. AUP’s mission AUP Strategic Plan 2015 - 2020 is to provide a student-centered, career-enabling and transformative learning environment; our faculty, and their tireless professional efforts, continue to be central to achieving this goal. William Fisher Provost 2 FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS 2018 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. BOOKS I. Books 4 II. Grants 8 III. Published Articles, Essays & Book Chapters 19 (Author, Editor, Contributor) IV. Exhibitions, Films & Videos 35 V. Collaborations with Students 37 VI. Collaborations with Faculty 40 VII. Study Trips 45 VIII. Workshops, Conference Presentations & Invited Talks 49 IX. Awards, Honors & Appointments 71 X. Community Involvement & Field Work 75 XI. Public Commentary & Media Coverage 81 2 CONTENTS FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS 2018 3 Brockmeier, Jens Beckett, Samuel. Lettere I. Edited by George Craig et al., Beyond the Archive: Memory, Narrative, and the Auto- Adelphi, 2018. biographical Process. Revised paperback edition, Oxford University Press, 2018. Cath, Albert Harsin, Jayson Solace in Complexity: A Fundamental Empirical Thought Harsin, Jayson, editor. International Journal of Communication: Experiment. Universiteit voor Humanistiek, 2018. The Nuit Debout Movement: Communication, Politics, and the Counter-Production of “Everynight Life.” Vol. 12, 2018. Craven, Alice Mikal Kuo, Michelle Visible and Invisible Whiteness: American White Reading with Patrick: A Teacher, a Student, and a Supremacy Through the Cinematic Lens. Springer Life-Changing Friendship. Reprint edition, Random House Trade International Publishing AG, 2018. Paperbacks, 2018. Gardner, Hall World War Trump: The Risks of America’s New Majed, Ziad Nationalism. Prometheus Books, 2018. Majed, Ziad (with Mardam-Bey, Farouk and Hadidi, Subhi). Dans la tête de Bachar Al-Assad. Actes Sud, 2018. Gunn, Dan Beckett, Samuel. Lettres IV (1966-1989). Edited by George Roy, Sneharika Craig et al., Gallimard, 2018. The Postcolonial Epic: From Melville to Walcott and Ghosh Routledge, 2018. 4 BOOKS BOOKS 5 Sawyer, Stephen Demos Assembled: Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State, 1840–1880. University of Chicago Press, II. GRANTS 2018. Schiff, Brian Schiff, Brian, editor. Situating Qualitative Methods in Psychological Science. Routledge, 2018. Tresilian, David Jacquemond, Richard, and Felix Lang, editors. Culture and Crisis in the Arab World: Art, Practice and Production in Spaces of Conflict. Translated by David Tresilian, Tauris, 2018. Wildberger, Jula The Stoics and the State: Theory - Practice - Context. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2018. Williams, Russell Le Bras, Herve, et al. Fourier, Kafka, Houellebecq: Trois théories sur l’enfer conjugal. Descartes & Cie, 2018. 6 BOOKS FACULTY ACHIEVEMENTS 2018 EXTERNAL GRANTS Governance, Bangkok, Thailand, Prevention. December 8–9, 2018. • Anonymous donation to support initiatives on the Armenian genocide. Alijani, Shahram Gunn, Dan , Steven • European Union Research funds, Ekovich • Grant from The San Francisco Stöpel, Michael www.simpact-project.eu. • The US Embassy in Paris funds for Foundation in support of the Cahiers • AMICAL grant, 2018 Summer Institute lecture at L’Institut d’études politiques Series. in Digital Literacy at the University of de Rennes. Bach, Maria Rhode Island, Providence, July 15–20, • Webster University in Geneva funds for • Young Scholar Seminar grant at the Kinne, Elisabeth 2018. European Society for the History of conference. • AMICAL grant to attend the Digital • AMICAL grant, 2018 AMICAL Economic Thought (ESHET) Annual Humanities Summer Institute. event Talix: Teaching and Learning Conference, June 2018. Feldman, Jessica Innovation Exchange, the American • One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Odonkor, Evelyn University in Cairo, February 25–27, Bent, Peter Intelligence (AI100), study-workshop 2018. • GLAA grant to hold a workshop in • Young Scholars Initiative (Institute for grant for Coding Caring: Human • AMICAL grant. “International Liberal India. New Economic Thinking) grant to help Values for an Intimate AI (co-PI), Arts in a Digital Era: Reimagining a organize a workshop for graduate 2018–2019. Shared Vision for Libraries, Technology students and early career researchers • Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Rast, Rebekah and Learning.” AMICAL conference for the African Economic History (AIME), Stanford seed grant for • Laboratoire Structures Formelles 2018, Bishkek, May 4–7, 2018. Network Annual Meeting. Coding Caring: Human Values for an du Langage (CNRS) grant for Intimate AI (co-PI), 2018–2019 presentation of research at the Tresilian, David European Second Language Corran, Ruth • Grants from the European Research Association, Münster, Germany. • Funding to attend Complex Reflection Feltman, Oliver Council (ERC) and the French Centre • Réseau d’Acquisition des Langues Groups and Their Braid Groups, • Collège Internationale de Philosophie National du Livre (CNL) to support Secondes (ReAL2) grants to attend Université de Caen, June 25–26, 2018 funds for book expenses and expenses the translation and publication of conferences and workshops. as an invited speaker. for hosting guests. an English edition of Les Frères • AMICAL grant to attend the AMICAL musulmans égyptiens by Marie event TALIX: Teaching and Learning Vannetzel (with French publishers Craven, Alice Mikal Gardner, Hall Innovation Exchange, the American Karthala and US publishers the • Grant from the International • New Horizons Symposium funds. University in Cairo. Hemingway Society to support the “Political Warfare.” Beyond the Horizon American University in Cairo Press). Hemingway Conference. Conference, Brussels. Speaker. Schiff, Brian • German-Southeast Asian Center of Weill, Sharon • George and Irina Schaeffer – Annual Excellence for Public Policy and Good • Open Society grant. Elder, Tanya contribution to the George and Irina Governance funds to speak at Global • Grant from the Berkeley/France • GLAA grant to hold a workshop in Schaeffer Center for the Study of Order in Disarray – A Quest for Global Foundation. India. Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict 8 GRANTS GRANTS 9 INTERNAL GRANTS at the conference From Spectacle University of Frankfurt, November 21, to Entertainment: Cinema, Media 2018. and Modes of Engagement from • Andrew W. Mellon grant for team- Bent, Peter • AUP Professional Development Modernity to the Present, Roma Tre teaching proposal with Professor • Faculty Development Grant to present Grant for research on the narratives University, November 23, 2018. Peter Hägel, “The Market and the a paper “Terms of Trade, Tariff Rates, of indigenous people in Canada. • Faculty Development Grant for Commons.” and Recoveries from Financial Crises: Presenting a paper “Language as Form presenting paper “Totò e Fabrizi vanno • Andrew W. Mellon grant for the The US and Argentina in the 1890’s“ at of Life: Between Health and Illness” at all’estero. Guardie e ladri in Francia e development of the new course Global the ASSA conference in Atlanta. the Berliner Symposium zur Narrativen Regno Unito” (with Dom Holdaway) Justice. Medizin, October 20, 2018. at the conference Stardom and Berg, Elena Performance in Postwar Italian Cinema Dege, Martin Canelas, Carla • Faculty Development Grant to work on 1945–54, University of Turin, May 17–18, • Faculty Development Grant for a manuscript with a colleague at the • Faculty Development Grant for 2018. presenting a talk “Meaning Making University of East