Hakim Abderrezak holds a B.A. in French as a Foreign Language and a Master's degree in English from the University of Rouen and is currently a doctoral candidate in French. His main interests are in the area of Francophone and post-colonial studies, with special emphasis on immigrant literature by authors from Algeria and Morocco. With the help of a travel grant from the Norman Spector Scholars' Fund he spent the summer of 2002 in France and Morocco, inerviewing Algerian and Moroccan writers.

habderrezak@northwestern.edu

Gabi Abend is a graduate student in sociology He did undergraduate work in political science, history, and philosophy at the Universidad de la Repblica (Montevideo). His interests include
comparative-historical sociology, morality, the history of business ethics, sociology of knowledge, and theory. He was awarded a FIG summer grant in 2004.

g-abend@northwestern.edu

Joshua Andresen received his BA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and studied also in Berlin and Tübingen. He is currently a doctoral candidate in Philosophy working on a dissertation on Nietzsche's project of transvaluation and its legacy in 20th century continental thought (Heidegger, Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida). In 2000-2001 he held a DAAD grant to study in Berlin and in 2003-2004 he was a fellow in the Paris Program in Critical Theory. He was awarded a FIG summer grant in 2004.

j-andresen@northwestern.edu

Crina Archer is a doctoral candidate in Political Science, specializing in political theory. She received her B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz in Politics. In order to prepare for dissertation research that will include French postsructuralism and feminist thought she spent the summer of 2001, with the help of FIG, studying French at Middlebury College. She was also awarded a FIG grant in 2004.

c-archer@northwestern.edu

Seth Ard received his BA in Philosophy and French (with a minor in Mathematics) from Michigan State University. Currently he is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy working in the area of analytic philosophy. He held a Dissertation Year Fellowship in 2002-03 and in 2003-04 was an exchagne student at the ENS, rue d'Ulm.

s-ard@northwestern.edu

Isabelle Avila is an exchange student from the ENS, Lyon. She received her agrégation in English literature. This year she hopes to continue her research on maps and imperialism in the United States at the end of the nineteenth century and at the beginning of the twentieth
centuries.

i-avila@northwestern.edu

Gergely Baics (B.A. ELTE, Budapest; M.A. CEU, Budapest) is a social historian, specializing in
modern comparative urban history with a concentration in European, North American, and
Latin-American urbanization. He is interested in interdisciplinary work and a social science approach to history, informed by social and urban theory. He also has an interest in Hungarian social history, Hungarian socialism, and the revolution of 1956.

g-baics@northwestern.edu

Jean Beaman is currently a sociology graduate student, who minored in French in undergrad. Jean is broadly interested in the intersectionality of race, class, and gender and in urban and community studies, as well as in planned communities, both in the US and in France; the structure and dynamics of public housing in French versus American cities; and in how racial artificats are appropriated in France.

j-beaman@northwestern.edu

Sarah Benoit is a graduate student in French. She received her BA from Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge. She is interested primarily in Francophone Africa. In summer 2003 she received a FLAS fellowship to attend the Summer Cooperative African Language Institute (SCALI) to study Pular. Her research interests include language politics of francophone Africa as they relate to francophone African literature, the experience of education in Africa and educational policies. She was awarded a FIG summer grant in 2004.

s-benoit@northwestern.edu

Taieb Berrada is a grduate student in French. Half Russian, half Moroccan and raised in Morocco, he received his maîtrise from the university of Montpellier and an MA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His main interest include Maghrebian literature, Beur literature, and film.

t-berrada@northwestern.edu

Florent Blanc is a second year doctoral sutdent at à Sciences-Po Paris studying under the direction of Didier Bigo. He is spending the academic year 2004-05 at Northwestern as an exchange student. He has been working for the last five yearson questions of home security and terrorism especially in the US and is the author of a book entitled
"Ben Laden et l'Amérique".

florent.blanc@sciences-po.org

François Blumenfeld-Kouchner is a graduate student in French. He previously studied French, English and philosophy at the University of Paris, the University of Aberdeen, University of St. Andews and the University of Dublin. His main interest is in the relation between text and image.

blumenfeld-kouchner@northwestern.edu

Rashida Braggs is a doctoral student in the department of Performance Studies in the School of Communication. She investigates the migration of African-American jazz musicians to Paris from 1940 until 1960 and their influence on French culture. She hopes to promote an expansion of the concept of jazz, by exploring the influence of jazz on French art forms such as photography, literature, and dance. She was awarded a summer research grant from the Center for International and Comparative Studies as well as a FIG grant to do research and language preparation for her dissertation. In 2004-05 she is a Fellow in the Paris program in Critical Theory.

rbraggs@hotmail.com

Japonica Brown-Saracino is a graduate student in Sociology who studies "social preservation" in both rural andurban communities. With the help of a FIG grant she improved her French through a summer course in Paris; this would enable her to engage more deeply with Pierre Bourdieu's work on "social distinction."

jjb112-0@northwestern.edu

Noah Butler, Noah Butler, a doctoral candidate in Anthropology, has a B.A. from Boston University in Sociocultural Anthropology and French Language and Literature. His research interests focus on Islam in West Africa and the anthropology of knowledge. With the help of FIG, he spent the summers of 2002 and 2003 doing research in Niger and the summer of 2004 doing research at the Centre des Archives d'Outre-Mer in Aix-en-Provence. For 2005-2006, with funding from Fulbright-Hays and a Graduate Research Fellowhip, Noah is doing dissertation fieldwork in Niger.  Noah is a past co-chair of the Graduate Affiliates group.

n-butler@northwestern.edu

Helen Callaghan is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science. She is particularly interested in Comparative Politics and Political Economy of Western Europe. She has received a European Consortium for Political Research travel grant and a travel grant from the Center for International and Comparative Studies. Helen won a Chateaubriand grant for 2002-03 which she spent in Paris as an exchange student at the Ecole Normale supérieure, rue d'Ulm.

h-callaghan@northwestern.edu

Ross Carroll completed his undergraduate studies at University College Dublin and at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences-po) where he completed the one year Programme International en Sciences Politiques et Sociales.  He also holds a Masters degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics and spent a year doing EU related work in Brussels.  His research interests are in International Relations and Political Theory. 

ross-carroll@northwestern.edu

Jennifer Cazenave is a graduate student in the Comparative Literary
Studies program. She received her BA from Bard College where she studied
creative writing, literature, and sociology. She is primarily interested
in the relation between language, memory, and responsibility in France
from 1945 to the present.

j-cazenave@northwestern.edu


Ananda Shankar Chakrabarty is a student in Art History, working on the "Black paintings" of Pierre Soulages (1919-), a French abstract painter. He lived in Paris from 1988 to 1997, first as a jazz guitarist, then as a linguistics student at the Université de Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle). He also completed a Maîtrise in musicology (EHESS, Paris) and a DEA (EHESS) in interdisciplinary studies (Jazz and Contemporary Painting). Ananda spent the academic year 2002-03 in Paris with the Northwestern Paris program in Critical Theory and received a FIG research grant in 2004. Ananda received a Dissertation Year Fellowship for the academic year 2004-05. During 2005-06, he will be Visiting Assistant Professor (2005-06) in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Utah.

ananda-chakrabarty@northwestern.edu

Ho Alan Chan is a doctoral candidate in French. He is primarily interested in law and literature, Francophone literatures of Black Africa and Asia, and Francophonie as a neocolonial phenomenon. With special travel support from the Graduate school and the office of the Vice-President for Research he spent the summer of 2001 in Ho Chi Minn City studying Vietnamese language and culture. In summer 2003 he continued his study of Vietnamese at the University of Wisconsin. Currently he is working on his dissertation "Melancholy Geographies: Diaspora, Psychoanalysis, and Writing" which focuses on the literature of the Vietnamese diaspora in France and the United States. He was awarded a Mellon Graduate research Grant by the Humanities center for 2004-05.

keylime@northwestern.edu

Vincent Chiao is a fifth year graduate student in the philosophy department. He received his BA from the University of Virginia. He is currently working on self knowledge and agency. With the help of FIG Vincent spent the summer of 2002 in Middlebury, studying French. He also received FIG support for summer 2003 in order to continue improving his French in France.

v-chiao@northwestern.edu

Thomas Clavel is a French graduate student at the McCormick School of Engineering and at the Kellogg School of Management. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Management degree from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Montpellier. Before joining Northwestern, he lived and worked in Africa, North America and Europe. In summer 2004 he was a financial planning and analysis intern at Sony Computer Entertainment of America.

tclavel2005@kellogg.northwestern.edu


Bradford Cokelet is a graduate student in the philosophy department. He holds a B.A. in Math and Religious Studies from Washington University and a Master's degree in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. His main current area of interest is Ethics, specifically the nature of and connections between freedom, agency, character, rationality, and recognition. He hopes to be able to eventually read relevant French authors in French and, with the help of FIG support, has been studying French in Paris in summer 2002.

brc@northwestern.edu

Kelsey Craven is a graduate student in Comparative Literary Studies and French. She received her B.A. in French with High Honors from U.C. Berkeley. Her interests oscillate around French, and not-so-French, auto-fiction in both literature and visual art of the 20th century, with particular emphasis on Hervé Guibert. She is thus concerned with: the constitution of the self, memory, forgetfulness, deceit, sexuality and phantasying, the economy of the body, the differentiation between “fiction” and “history” (or “non-fiction”), the political ramifications of such a differentiation or lack thereof, contemporary politics, and the Situationist International.

k-craven@northwestern.edu

Umud K. Dalgic, is a graduate student in sociology. He received his BA from the Bogazici
University, Istanbul (Turkey). His interests are, comparative/historical sociology, sociology of culture, and political and social theory. He is currently working on sociology of development, particularly focusing on the "empowerment" aspect of World Bank's microcredit policies.

u-dalgic@northwestern.edu

Annabelle de Frutos is a first-year graduate student in French. She has a Maîtrise in Spanish and another one in Foreign Languages Applied to Business, both from the University of Amiens. She received her MA in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of Miami. She is primarily interested in gender studies and modernism.

Annabelle-de-frutos@northwestern.edu

Michaela De Soucey is currently a 4th year graduate student in the Department of Sociology, and is planning to be ABD before the quarter ends. Her work is mainly on culture, organizations, consumer-based social movements, and social change.  Her research has and continues to be centered around the topical area of food, as it draws from and contributes to each of the above-mentioned areas.  Her dissertation work will examine the contemporary cultural and moral politics of foie gras (production and consumption) in the United States and France.  She is planning on spending substantial time in France in 2006 collecting data.

m-desoucey@northwestern.edu

Justine DeYoung is a graduate student in Art History with an interest in late 19th-century French painting. She graduated magna cum laude from Williams College with a BA in art history and English literature. In 2003-04 she served as a graduate fellow at the Block Museum of Art.

j-deyoung@northwestern.edu

Abigail Derecho received her B.A. in Modern Thought and Literature with Honors and her M.A. in Humanities from Stanford University. At Stanford, she was awarded the Boothe Prize for writing and the Golden Medal for Humanities. Currently, she is a graduate student in Comparative Literary Studies. She specializes in new media and outsider art. A FIG grant in 2003 enabled her to intern at the Ecole du Louvre in Paris for three months, during which she
worked with one of Europe's leading experts in cultural institutions and digital technolgoy, Xavier Perrot, and helped to organize the 2003 ICHIM international conference.

abigailderecho@yahoo.com

Eli Diamond is a doctoral student in Philosophy. His principal interest is the history of philosophy. He comes from an interdisciplinary background and has studied
the relation of philosohy to art, literature, religion and history. He worked in the north of France as a tour guide for two summers and is now looking forward to the opportunity to study in Paris with scholars such as Luc Brisson and Rémi Brague. In 2004-05 he is a fellow in the Paris Program in Critical Theory.

e-diamond@northwestern.edu

Kristin Doll is currently a Religion student focusing on Medieval Christianity.  She received her BA in English and Anthropology from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and completed her master's degree in interdisciplinary Liberal Studies at the University of Minnesota.  Her master's thesis focused on the medieval religious milieu of the labyrinth of
Chartres Cathedral in Chartres, France.  She is currently working on a collection of Marian miracle stories from Chartres, and is interested in the shrines on the French pilgrimage routes to the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

k-doll@northwestern.edu

Samuel Dorf, graduate student in Musicology, received his B.A. and B.Mus in Music History and Literature from Boston University, and his M.A. in Musicology from Tufts University. His current interests include work on the early twentieth-century composer Erik Satie, musical patronage in early twentieth-century Paris, and the interaction between the discourses of sexuality, gender, and ancient classicism within French culture.

s-dorf@northwestern.edu

Ilde Nathalie Etoke is a graduate student in French. She has a Licence and Maîtrise from the university of Lille-III and DEA in modern literature from the university of Cergy-Pontoise. Her main interest is in Francophone African literature and she spent the summer of 2002 studying in Cameroon.

i-etoke@northwestern.edu

Alison Fisher is a graduate student in the Department of Art History. She received her BA in 2002 from the University of Rochester in Art History. Her research interests include architectural history, urbanism, conceptual art practices and theology. In the coming years she hopes to return to France in order to study the theory and social history of modernist legacies in the public housing of the urban periphery.

e-fisher5@northwestern.edu

Céline Frigau is an exchange student from the ENS rue d'Ulm. She hodls a license and maîtrise in Italian from the Sorbonne and received her agrégation is Italian literature. She is interested in medieval poetry, especially Dante as well as in the poetry of d'Alfieri and the music of Verdi. She palys the flute.

c-frigau@northwestern.edu

Charlotte Gehl is a graduate student in French. She received a BA in French and Anthropology from Emory University and an MA from Columbia University-Reid Hall Master's in French Studies program in Paris. One of her main interests in bilingualism.

charlotte_gehl@hotmail.com

Rebecca Givan is a doctoral candidate in Political Science, specialising in West European politics. In particular, her research focuses on changing working-class politics, especially in labor relations and left wing political parties.

r-givan@northwestern.edu

Deborah Goldgaber is a first-year graduate student in the department of philosophy with interests in 19th and 20th century French and German philosophy, and phenomenology specifically.  She received an MA in philosophy from the New School for Social Research and hold a dual B.A. in Economics and Political Science. She is currently studying French by auditing undergraduate classes here at Northwestern, and hopes to study French intensively this summer, either through a program state-side or in France.

d-goldgaber@northwestern.edu

Vanessa Gomez is a doctoral candidate in Cultural Anthropology. Her thesis focuses on small-scale production using scrap material in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (West Africa). She spent the academic year 2002/03 in Burkina Faso, with the help of a grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research as well as a research fellowship from Northwestern.

v-gomez@northwestern.edu

Deborah Goldgaber is a first-year graduate student in the department of philosophy with interests in 19th and 20th century French and German philosophy, and phenomenology specifically.  She received an MA in philosophy from the New School for Social Research and hold a dual B.A. in Economics and Political Science. She is currently studying French by auditing undergraduate classes here at Northwestern, and hopes to study French intensively this summer, either through a program state-side or in
France.

d-goldgaber@northwestern.edu

Marala Goode is a graduate student in Political Science. She is interested in the study of nationalism, gender equality, new social mouvements and globalization. Currently she is researching the situation of indigenous women in Latin America, following the recent constitutional reforms on indigenous rights. Marala received in summer 2002 a FIG grant to go to France both to improve her French and do some preliminary research on Muslim women in France.

m-goode@northwestern.edu

Sarah Gordon is a doctoral candidate in the department of Art History. Her study, in the area of late-19th century French and American art, engages the mediums of photography, painting and sculpture, particularly the Animal Locomotion project by Eadweard Muybridge. She also has an interest in the visual and performing arts of French-speaking, West African countries.

s-gordon1@northwestern.edu

Katia Gottin is a graduate student in French. She received her "License" and "Maîtrise" in "Lettres Modernes" from the University Denis Diderot-Paris VII. She spent the year 2003-2004 at Emory University working as a French Tutor, and doing some researchs to write
her "Mémoire" . She is primarly interested in Postcolonial studies, psychoanalysis and
children literature

k-gottin@northwestern.edu

Samir Haddad has a B.A. in Philosophy and a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the Australian National University. He is a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy, and his dissertation examines the relationship between inheritance and democracy in the work of Jacques Derrida and Hannah Arendt. In the summer of 2001 Samir received a grant from FIG to study French at Middlebury College, and in 2002/03 he participated in the Paris Program in Critical Theory. He has been awarded a Dissertation Year Fellowship for 2005/06.

samir-haddad@northwestern.edu

Markus Hardtmann is a doctoral candidate in the Department of German and Critical Thought. He received his M.A. in German Literature, Philosophy, and Psychology from the University of Freiburg in Germany and studied at University College London and the Johns Hopkins University before coming to Northwestern. His research interests include literary theory, aesthetics, analytical and continental philosophy, and German and Comparative Literature from the 18th to the 20th century. In 2001/02 he held a Dissertation Year Fellowship and in 2002/03 was a fellow with the Paris Program in Critical Theory, completing his dissertation on logic, language, and literary form in Robert Musil’s The Man Without Qualities.

m-hardtmann@northwestern.edu


Christopher Hayden has a B.A. from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in Cultural Anthropology and an M.A. from the University of Chicago in Social Sciences. At Northwestern he is a Doctoral candidate in African History. His main areas of interest are the History of 19th- and 20th-Century Africa, social and cultural history of colonialism in Francophone Africa, history of French tropical medicine, African healing systems. His dissertation is entitled: Medicine, Healing and the Social Imaginary in Colonial Guinea, 1890-1958. He is past recipient of Program in African Studies Pre-dissertation Research Grant (for research in Guinea and France), a Fulbright Dissertation Research Fellowship (Guinea), an NSEP Dissertation Research Grant (Guinea, Mali, Senegal), Camargo Foundation Residency Grant, and an NU Graduate Research Grant. In summer of 2001 he received a grant from FIG to do research in Aix-en-Provence and Marseille; he received another FIG grant in 2004.

chayden@northwestern.edu

Christopher Hodson, graduate student in History, received his B.A., Summa Cum Laude and his M.A. from Utah State University. Currently he is working on his dissertation, "The diaspora of the Acadians of Nova Scotia beginning in 1755." He carried out research for this dissertation at the Archives Nationales, the Archives de la Marine, and several departmental archives in France. Chris is the recipient of Best Essay award from the Graduate Certificate in Eighteenth-Century Studies for "Work and Grace: Labor, Religion, and Political Mobilization in the Pre-revolutionary Pamphlet Debate" (2000)

c-hodson@northwestern.edu


Frances Hutchins is a doctoral student in French and Comparative Literature. Her main interest is in francophone literatures, especially women's writing from North Africa, the Caribbean, and Quebec. Her current research focuses on cultural transfers of Orientalism between North Africa, France, and the United States. Fran won in summer 2002 a travel grant from the Center for International and Comparative Studies as well as an 18th century Initiative grant to do research in Canada. She spent part of summer 2003 at the Institute for French Cultural Studies at Dartmouth and will participate in the Paris Program in Critical Theory in 2004/05.

f-hutchins@northwestern.edu

Jacqueline Jeruss completed 3 years of general surgery training at Northwestern Memorial
Hospital and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. through the Interdepartmental
Biological Sciences program, also at Northwestern. She received a BA in
Neuroscience and in History from Brandeis University and an MD from the
University of Vermont. Currently she is a research fellow of the American
College of Surgeons and of the National Cancer Institute Oncogenesis and
Developmental Biology Training Grant. With the help of a FIG grant she conducted in 2002 summer research comparing French surgical training with surgical training in the United States, with the aim of enhancing the training programs of both countries.

j-jeruss@md.northwestern.edu

Karen Kachra is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy. She has an Honours Bachelor of Arts & Science from McMaster University and a Master of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Toronto. Her research currently concerns issues of agency and resistance, drawing from the work of contemporary French theorists. Karen has participated in a French summer immersion session at the Université de Laval, Québec City through the Committee on Institional Cooperation (CIC). She has been awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship for the 2002-03 academic year and spent the academic year 2003-04 in the Northwestern Paris Program in Critical Theory.

k-kachra@northwestern.edu

Jenny Kaminer is a PhD. candidate in the Slavic Department. She earned a B.A. in Russian
and Theater from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her dissertation,which examines the image of the "bad mother" in Russian literature from the 19th-20th centuries, incorporates
the writings of Julia Kristeva and other French feminists as a theoretical foundation. Her other research interests include female crime/criminality and Russian literature and theater
of the 1920s. In summer 2004 she received a FIG grant.

j-kaminer@northwestern.edu

Jessica Keating is a graduate student in Art History interested in French academic painting and pedagogical practices. She received her BA in Art History and History from Ohio State University. In order to further her work she would like to spend a summer in Paris in order to improve her language skills and utilize the city's pertinent collections of art works and archives.

j-keating@northwestern.edu


Tali Kimelman is a doctoral candidate in the Biomedical Engineering Department. Her background is in Computer Science and her research currently focuses on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). She is working on the development of a new technique for the early detection of osteoarthritis.

t-kimelman@northwestern.edu


Mariko Kitaoka is a graduate student in Political Science. She has a BA from Keio University in Tokyo and an MA from George Washington University. During the academic year 2001-02 she was an exchange student at Sciences Po, working on her dissertation, "Children and the Elderly: National Discourse and Welfare States in France and Japan."

m-kitaoka@northwestern.edu


Ela Kotkowska is a doctoral candidate in Slavics and French. She earned her M.A. in French and English translation from Kent State University. As part of the program, she spent a year at the School of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Geneva. Her literary translations from Polish and French appeared in the Chicago Review and Poetry Magazine. She is interested in French literary and artistic avant-garde, and its dialogue with avant-garde movements in Czech Republic, Poland, and Russia.

ela@northwestern.edu

Jason Leddington received his B.A. from Brown University and is currently a doctoral candidate in Philosophy. His main research interest is in continental philosophy and in 2001-02 he was a fellow with the Paris Program in Critical Theory, completing his dissertation on Nietzsche. Jason is a past recipient of DAAD summer grant .

j-leddington@northwestern.edu

Min Lee is a graduate student in Art History, with a specialization in urbanism and modern
architecture.  She received her BA cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania in Urban
Studies and Art History.  She also worked for several years as a political organizer before
returning to graduate school.  Her dissertation focuses on 18th to 19th Paris and the
relationship between modern city planning and mapping practices and representations. 
Her other research interests include Chinese representations of space in painting, writing
and cartography.

min@northwestern.edu

Bishupal Limbu is a doctoral candidate in French and Comparative Literary Studies. He is working on a dissertation that examines the discourse of responsibility and rights in contemporary Francophone and Anglophone fiction. A past co-chair of the FIG graduate affiliate group, Bishupal spent 2004-05 in Paris as a participant in the Paris Program in Critical Theory.

bishupal@northwestern.edu

Elise Lipkowitz, graduate student in history, received her B.A. and M.A. in history from Stanford University. Her dissertation explores the tension between science and nationalism in France and Britain during the Enlightenment and the Napoleonic eras. Her first year paper, "Matters of Family, Matters of State: A Cultural History of Inoculation in France 1754-1774" received the History Department's Romani prize. A small section of that paper was published in msJAMA in November 2003 under the title "The Physicians' Dilemma in the Eighteenth-Century French Smallpox Debate."

e-lipkowitz@northwestern.edu

Jean Littlejohn, a graduate student in Music theory, is currently working on her dissertation entitled "The Cultural Context of F. J. Fétis's Theory of Tonality." She was recently awarded a grant to study abroad from the Belgian-American Educational Foundation and has also received a Graduate Research Grant from Northwestern University. In summer 2004 she received a FIG grant.

j-littlejohn@northwestern.edu

Anh Ly is a graduate student in French and Comparative Literary Studies. She received her BA from the University of San Francisco and an MA from the University of Chicago. Her research touches upon the Mande oral tradition in Mali and its link to the novel through the figure of the griot. She spent the summer of 2003 and 2004 in Mali doing preliminary fieldwork. In 2005-06, she will spend the year in Mali doing research on a Fulbright Hays fellowship. Her previous travels have been supported by the French department, FIG, PAS and CICS. She has also spent time studying and working in France and Brazil on a FLAS summer Fellowship and has traveled extensively throughout West Africa. Anh was the co-chair of the Graduate Affiliates Group in 2003-04.

a-ly@northwestern.edu

Uri Jacob Matatyaou is a graduate student in Political Science, specializing in political theory. He received a B.A. in both Political Science and Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and is interested in 20th century French political and social theory. With the help of a FIG grant, Uri spent the summer of 2003 in France, improving his French language skills.

ujm@northwestern.edu

Aurelien Mauxion is a graduate student in Anthropology. He received a bachelors degree in both History and Sociology and completed a masters degree in Geography at Universit Rennes II, France. His interests include democratization in Mali, West Africa, with a focus on land management and relations of power in villages of arid regions.

a-mauxion@northwestern.edu


Lida Maxwell is a gradute student in Political Science working on Rthe problem of force in modern republican thought (Rousseau, Montesquieu. With the help of a FIG grant she studied French in summer 2003 at the Alliance française in Paris.

l-maxwell1@northwestern.edu

Jacqueline R. McAllister is a first-year doctoral student in Political Science, specializing in
international relations. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College in Political Science and
French. Her research interests focus on multilateralism, international organizations, and U.S.
foreign policy.

j-mcallister@northwestern.edu

Julie McQuinn is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology. Her dissertation explores the forces behind perceptions of gender and sexuality in Parisian society at the turn of the twentieth century and their connection to the creation and reception of a handful of highly individual operas performed at the Opéra-Comique. She received a Dissertation Year Fellowship from Northwestern and has written a chapter on eroticism in Debussy's music for the Cambridge Companion to Debussy.

j-mcquinn@northwestern.edu

Jose Munoz studied law and anthropology at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Spain) and received his M Sc in social anthropology from University College London (U.K.). He is
working on a dissertation that examines the politicization of business activities in northern
Cameroon, where he carried extensive fieldwork in 2003 and 2004, sponsored by a British Economic and Social Recearch Council grant.

jm-munoz@northwestern.edu

Barbara Murphy is a PhD candidate in the Political Science Department. While completing her B.A. in International Studies at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Buenos Aires, Argentina), she spent a semester as an exchange student at the Institute D’études Politiques de Paris – Science Po (Paris, France). With the help of a FIG grant, Barbara also spent the summer of 2002 doing research in Paris. Her research interests include international relations theory, international organizations and international law. She is currently working on her dissertation, which explores inter-organizational relations as applied to United Nations operational agencies.


barbmurphy@northwestern.edu



Ella Myers is a PhD candidate in Political Theory. She received her B.A. in Politics from the University of California, Santa Cruz and has also studied at the Summer School in Political Philosophy at the Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen in Cortona, Italy, The School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University, and the Goethe Institute in Berlin. Her dissertation examines the relationship between ethics and politics in the work of Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, and Michel Foucault.

e-myers1@northwestern.edu

Rachel Ney is a third-year doctoral student in French and Comparative Literary Studies. Prior to coming to Northwestern, she earned a Licence in English, a Maîtrise and a D.E.A. in contemporary Anglo-American literature at the university of Nancy II, France. She taught English and French in both French and American universities for a period of six years. Her areas of research are contemporary French literature dealing with the American Southwest (Yves Berger, Le Clézio, Frédéric Temple), contemporary Anglo-American literature from the Border (Cormac McCarthy), as well as literary translation in multilingual and transnational zones. She is also deeply interested in how death crystallizes border relations in these fictions. She published in both French and English: “The Other and Death in Cormac McCarthy’s All the Pretty Horses.” (Unchartered Territories, Reims UP 2003), “Adaptation et altérités dans la Trilogie de la Frontière de Cormac McCarthy, ou le processus de l’oblitération de l’altérité mexicaine.” (Palimpsestes, La Sorbonne UP, 2005), and “La Conscience Malheureuse à la Frontière Amérique / Mexique dans The Crossing de Cormac McCarthy : ‘a despair much like [one’s] own” (a special issue of Profil Américain on Cormac McCarthy edited by Michel Bandry).

racheleustache@hotmail.com

Julia Ng is a graduate student in Comparative Literature and German. She received her B.A. and M.A. in German and Comparative Literature from UCLA, and studied at the Humboldtand Freie Universities in Berlin before arriving at Northwestern. She has also studied at the
University of Vienna and the Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, and worked for two years as editor for a literary publisher and as freelance journalist in Hong Kong. To date her research interests span from urban theory and the interactions between architecture,
literature and identity politics, to what Lacan might have to say aboutKantian dietetics.
She is an awardee of a DAAD scholarship for doctoral studies.

j-ng@northwestern.edu

Daniel Nolan is a graduate student in Comparative Literary studies, interested primarily in German and Slavics. He has a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and his main research interests are 18th Century German Literature and thought and Russian poetry. To pursue these studies he would like to be able to read French theory in the original and therefore spent the summer of 2001 studying French (CAREL program in Royan) with the help of a grant from FIG. In 2003-04 he was in Paris with the Northwestern Paris Program in Critical Theory.

dan@northwestern.edu

Toby Norris is a doctoral candidate in the Art History Department. He works on relations between modern artists and the state in France between the First and Second World Wars. He spent the academic years 2001-02 and 2002-03 in Paris first on a Kress Travel Grant and then on Chateaubriand grant, conducting the archival portion of his research, largely in the Archives nationales. With the help of a FIG grant he could stay in Paris in the summer of 2003 to complete his research. He had a Dissertation Year Fellowship in 2003-04.

t-norris1@northwestern.edu

Rebecca Oliver is a doctoral candidate in Political Science, specializing in Comparative Politics. She received her B.A. in Political Science from the Université de Montréal (1998). Her research examines the way in which international economic integration and changes in
production techniques affect the economic welfare of workers in advanced
industrialized democracies. She has received fellowships from the Fond
FCAR (Government of Québec)(1998) and the Social Science and Humanities
Research Council of Canada (2000-2003), as well as grants from the CICS
at Northwestern University.

r-oliver@northwestern.edu


Jan Peters is a graduate student in the Slavic department. A native of Norfolk, England, he earned a B.A. in Russian & English (Literature and Critical Theory) from the University of Westminster in London, England. He is interested in probing the many potential intersections between Russian Literature, Religious Philosophy and Culture of the Fin-de-Siecle/Modernist period (roughly 1880-1930) and subsequent developments in French Critical Theory during the 20th century and up to the present day. These include connections between Lev Shestov and the philosophy of Georges Bataille and Gilles Deleuze, reworkings of Hegel and Nietzsche in France and Russia, and the relationship of KristevaÅfs work to Russian thought and culture.

j-peters4@northwestern.edu

Jessica Peterson is a doctoral student in the Department of Linguistics. She
received her B.A. summa cum laude in English and Linguistics with a
specialization in second language acquisition from Rice University in 1997.
Her main research interests are language acquisition and bilingualism. Jessica
studied French literature, history, and architecture with faculty of the
University of Paris-IV through the Institut d'Etudes Européennes. She
currently works on a child language project with Dr. Janet Pierrehumbert, a FIG
faculty affiliate. She received a FIG summer grant in 2004.

jjpete@northwestern.edu

Emilie Prattico is a doctoral student in philosophy, specialising in political philosophy. She holds a BA in Philosophy and Theology from Oxford University. She is currently working on her dissertation, which will explore the themes of democracy, equality, and political expertise, and which will be inspired by Habermas's discourse ethics.

e-prattico@northwestern.edu

Laura Reagan is a graduate student in Political Science. She received a FIG grant to study French in Montpellier in summer 2003.

laurareagan@hotmail.com

Sebastian Rand is a doctoral student in Philosophy, writing on German Idealism. He is currently Northwestern's exchange student with the cole normale suprieure, rue d'Ulm, and is preparing a translation of Catherine Malabou's _Que faire de notre cerveau?_.

sgr662@merle.it.northwestern.edu


Bradley Reichek is a graduate student in French. He received his BA from Colby College, majoring in Philosophy. His main research interests are in the 18th century. Brad is spending summer 2003 in Paris with a University Research Grant, doing archival research for his dissertation project on the representation and reception of Ancien Régime social mores in recent French and American film. In 2004-05 he is an exchange student at the ENS-Lyon.

b-reichek@northwestern.edu

Christopher Reid is a graduate student in German and Comparative Literary Studies. He received his B.A. from the University of Rochester and after graduating received a Robert Bosch Stiftung fellowship to teach English at an east German university for one year. Currently his research interests are in Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment literature, especifically in issues of pedagogy and theories of aesthetic education. In summer 2001 he spent a month in Montpellier, studying French with the help of a grant from FIG; he also spent part of that sumer studying German pedagogy at the Herder-Institut in Leipzig. In 2004-05 he is an exchange student at the ENS rue dUlm.

c-reid1@northwestern.edu

Nicole Richardt, a doctoral candidate in Political Science, studies comparative politics and political economy. She has received fellowships from both Rutgers University and Northwestern University as well as several grants from the Center for International and Comparative Studies, FIG, and the Gender Studies Program, all at Northwestern. In 2002-03 Nicole was an exchange student at Sciences Po.

n-richardt@northwestern.edu

Rachel Rosner is a graduate student in Philosophy. In addition to earning a B.A. Honors degree in Philosophy from the University of Oregon, Summa Cum Laude (2001), she studied at Hunter College, CUNY (1999-2000) where coursework in philosophy, religion, and political/social theory was combined with an internship at the United Nations, Department of the Division of Economic and Social Affairs, from which she received an honorary Certificate of Merit Award (2000). These interests as well as her interests in philosophical aesthetics, feminist theory, and 18th-20th century German and French philosophy, will continue to inform her studies at Northwestern. With the help of FIG, Rachel spent summer 2002 studying in an intensive French language course at the University of Oregon.

r-rosner@northwestern.edu

Scot Rousse is a Ph.D. candidate in Philosophy.  He is writing a dissertation on  the hermeneutic conception of the self in Heidegger's Being and Time.

rousse@northwestern.edu

Emily Sahakian is a student in the Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama. A double
French-Theatre major as an undergrad, she received her Maîtrise from Paris III in 2004. She
investigates theatre from Martinique and Guadeloupe, concentrating on the work of women dramatists. Her interests include theatre as a hybrid art form and new theatrical language. She has also written and directed a bilingual, French-American play, "Cowboys in Old Europe," at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris. Emily is the recipient of the FIG grant.

e-sahakian@northwestern.edu

Annica Schjott received her BA in Swedish and French at the University of Gothenbourg (Sweden) and her MA in French at Lund University (Sweden). Currently she is a graduate student in the Dept of French and Italian and has a special interest in Québecois immigrant literatures. In 2004 she was the recipient of a FIG grant.

a-schjott@northwestern.edu

Claire Seelinger is a graduate student in Cultural Anthropology. She received her B.A. in Anthropology from Wheaton College (IL) in 2001, and provided legal services in immigration in Chicago before enrolling at Northwestern. She is interested in issues of diaspora, cultural heritage and religious education among Maghrebi immigrants of the second and third generation in Marseilles, France. She lived for many years in Casablanca, Morocco.

c-seelinger@northwestern.edu

Shalini Seshadri is a second-year graduate student in the Department of Art History. She received her BA from Georgetown University in Theology, specializing in World Religions. Before coming to Northwestern, she worked for educational and public health non-profit organizations in Washington, DC. She plans to pursue a major in nineteenth-century European art and a minor in Indian art.

s-seshadri@northwestern.edu

Lee Seymour is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science. His research interests include the organization of violence, diasporas, norms of sovereignty and territoriality, and their convergence in the international relations around secessionist conflict. In 2005-06 he will be at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris as a participant in Northwestern's dual-Ph.D. program with Sciences Po.

lseymour@northwester.edu

Torrey Shanks is a doctoral candidate in Political Science working in political theory. She received her BA in Political Science and Women's Studies from University of California, Berkeley. Her dissertation is on "The Imagination and Political Judgment". She has spent previous summers participating in the DAAD Summer Language Grant in Frankfurt (2001), the Summer School in Political Philosophy sponsored by the Institut für die Wissenschaft vom Menschen in Cortona, Italy (2000), and a Mellon Seminar on Early Modern Political Thought in England and America (1999) . In 2002-03 she was a recipient of the Dissertation Year Fellowship. She spent Summer 2002 studying French in Paris with a FIG grant and has spent the 2003-04 year participating in the Paris Program in Critical Theory. She will be an exchange at Science Po for the 2004-05 academic year.

t-shanks@northwestern.edu

Daniel Smith is a second year graduate student in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. Program in Theatre and Drama. His research focuses on private theatres and erotic performance in eighteenth-century France. He has previously studied French literature at the University of Notre Dame and Theatre at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

j-smith9@northwestern.edu

Kristen Syrett is a graduate student in the Linguistics Department. Her current research deals with semantics and pragmatics in child language acquisition, as well as the semantics-phonology interface. She received her B.A. from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and also holds an M.Ed. with a concentration in Montessori pedagogy. She has studied French language and literature, and taught French for the Center for Talented Youth, sponsored by Johns Hopkins University. She spent a year in Paris after college, studying at the Sorbonne. Kristen is incorporating her work in French into her cross-linguistic investigations.

k-syrett@northwestern.edu

Stéphanie Silvestre is a graduate student in French, with research interests in Francophone literature and culture. She has a Licence from the University of Cergy-Pontoise, a Maîtrise from the University of Paris-VII and an M.A. from the University of Miami. She spent summer of 2002 doing fieldwork on youth culture in Guadeloupe. She received a scholarship from the Conseil Général de la Guadeloupe as well as a Summer fellowship from Northwestern’s program in Latin American and Caribbean Studies which enabled her to spend the summer of 2003 in Guadeloupe, conducting research at the Caribbean Multimedia Library (La Médiathèque Caraibe Bettino Lara). She spent the summer of 2004 in Guadeloupe attending the Prix des Ameriques insulaires et de la Guyane hosted by famous Guadeloupean novelist and critic Maryse Conde. She has also been selected to participate in the Paris Program in Critical Theory for the academic year 2004-2005.

s-silvestre@northwestern.edu

Kim Sims is a graduate student in the Department of Political Science, interested in comparative political economy, with a focus on Western Europe. Her dissertation will study how, why, and when magistrates began to pursue corrupt elites in France and Italy.
She will attend Northwestern Law School as a research assistant and Law and Social Science Program Fellowship recipient in 2002-2003. Her pre-dissertation fieldwork took her to Paris during the summers of 2000, 2001 and 2002, with the help of grants from FIG and CICS. Kim served as co-chair of FIG Graduate Affliates in 2001-02. In 2003-04 she was in Switzerland, on a Fulbright.

k-sims@northwestern.edu

Christopher Skeaff (B.A. Hon., University of Toronto, 2001) is a doctoral candidate in political science, specializing in political theory. His dissertation research on Radical Enlightenment philosopher Benedictus Spinoza explores the relation between critique and democracy. In 2005-2006, Chris will be a participant in the Paris Program in Critical Theory.

c-skeaff@northwestern.edu

Christopher Swift (M.A. University of Minnesota, B.A. Purdue University) has studied rhetoric and philosophy at various institutions in the United States, France, Germany, and the Netherlands. He spent 2002-03 as a fellow in the Paris Program in Critical Theory and currently holds a DAAD grant as a research fellow in the Seminar der allgemeine Rhetorik at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen. His research in the Dept. of Communication Studies at Northwestern focuses primarily on protest discourse and the relationship between philosophy and rhetoric. His dissertation studies the significance in this regard of Friedrich Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra and several other published texts.

c-swift@northwestern.edu

Steven Tester is a Ph.D. student in the German department. He completed his B.A. in English Literature at the University of Oregon and has taken courses inPhilosophy and
Comparative Literature at DePaul University, Charles University in Prague and Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt. His interests include the convergence of French and German thought on problems of temporality, hermeneutics and illusion in Phenomenology. He is a recipent of a F.I.G. summer study grant for 2005.

setest@northwestern.edu

Craig Tower received his B.A. in History from Haverford College, and served in the Peace Corps in Mali from 1994 to 1996.  A PhD candidate in cultural and linguistic anthropology and African studies at Northwestern, his dissertation examines the adaptation and use of FM radio technology in and around the city of Koutiala, Mali.  His ethnographic research in Africa was supported with funding from sources such as FIG, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and Fulbright-IIE.  He has been awarded a Weinberg Dean's Dissertation Research Grant for 2005-2006.

ctower@northwestern.edu

Joshua Viau is a graduate student in the Linguistics Department focusing on the syntax-semantics interface in child language acquisition. He received his M.A. in French Linguistics from Indiana University in 2001. His teaching background includes three years of instruction in French to American undergraduates. He has also taught reading enrichment courses to children of all ages and worked as a reporter for NPR. In spring 2003 he went to Paris to collect data for a project on schwa deletion and establish contact with researchers and laboratories there; his trip was funded by FIG.

j-viau@northwestern.edu

Arnaud Violland is a French MBA graduate student at the Kellogg School of
Management and the McCormick School of Engineering. He holds a Master in
Industrial Engineering from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon. In summer 2004 he
was working for the Customer Service of the north-American Headquarters of
Airbus, in Washington DC. Arnaud was the founder of Kellogg-francophones. He
is currently the president of the European Business Club and is the Kellogg
Leader of the French MBA Club.

aviolland2005@kellogg.northwestern.edu