People

Faculty

	Edward Berenson, Professor Major Interests: Modern French social and cultural history; modern European history.
	Herrick Chapman, Associate Professor Major Interests: French history; social history; economic history.
	Laure Bereni, Associate Professor Major Interests: Sociology of gender ; social movements ; women’s movements and feminism ; diversity politics in contemporary France.
	Romain Lecler, Visiting Scholar Major Interests: Political Sociology, Public Policies, Media Studies, Sociology of Intellectuals.
	Frederic  Viguier; Assistant director/Associate research scholar Major Interests: Work and workplaces, The Welfare State, Charities and NGOs, Education, Political Sociology, Ethnography.

Members of the IFS

	Michel Beaujour, Professor; Associate Chair, Department of French; Associate Director, Institute of French Studies Major Interests: Renaissance literature; contemporary poetry; literary theory; stylistics; rhetoric; poetics; comparative and ethno-poetics.
	Tom Bishop, Professor; Director, Center for French Civilization and Culture Major Interests: Contemporary theatre and novel, avant-garde movements, cultural history
	Frederick Cooper, Professor Major Interests: African history; colonization and decolonization; social sciences and the colonial world.
	Stefanos  Geroulanos Major Interests: Modern European Intellectual History; French and German Thought (esp. 20th Century); Ethics, Political Theology, and Philosophical Anthropology; Film and Philosophy of Film
	Denis Hollier, Professor Major Interests: 20th-century literature; narration and the media; literature and politics; the avant gardes; theory of literary history
	Judith Miller, Professor; Chair, Department of French; Director, NYU in Paris, 1998-2003 Major Interests: French Theater: Theory, Production and Text; Francophone Literature (particularly theatrer); Feminist Theory and texts by women
	Martin Schain, Professor Major Interests: Comparative politics; American politics; European politics; center-periphery relations; trade unions and politics; immigration and party politics in France.
	John Shovlin, Associate Professor
	Richard Sieburth, Professor Major Interests: Comparative poetics; history and theory of translation; romanticism; symbolism; modernism.
	Kenneth Silver, Professor Major Interests: French and American twentieth-century art.

Emeritus Faculty

	Jerrold Seigel, Professor Major Interests: Social and cultural theory; history of selfhood and subjectivity; relations between art and society.