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Kristina Keenan Named First Woman to Lead Legislative Advocacy at Veterans of Foreign Wars
Last month, Kristina Keenan ’08 became the first woman veteran to direct the National Legislative Service (NLS) of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), the United States’s oldest major war veterans’ service organization. A passionate, globally-minded leade ...
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AUP Students Shine at 2025 UAB Model United Nations Competition
With over 160 delegates reporting, some of the world’s most prestigious universities flocked to the 2025 UAB Model United Nations Competition, from which AUP students emerged with the weekend’s top accolades. Artem Atamanov, Angel Karchev, and Carson Hall ...
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Professor Dan Gunn receives the Distinguished Faculty Award
Prof. Gunn speaking during the launch of The Letters of Samuel Beckett Vol. 4 On December 7, 2016, AUP’s Faculty Senate honored Professor Dan Gun with the Distinguished Faculty award. As Professor Roy Rosenstein declared in his letter of recommendation, “ ...
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Prof. Golub’s Book: East Asia’s Reemergence
Co-Chair of AUP’s International and Comparative Politics Department, Professor Philip S. Golub, has spent his career studying and writing about imperial systems, the ways in which contemporary world politics has been shaped by late-modern colonial and imp ...
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Alice Blackhurst: AUP’s 2025 Writer in Residence
The American University of Paris (AUP) and the Centre Culturel Irlandais (Irish Cultural Center) in Paris are delighted to announce that Alice Blackhurst has been appointed this year’s Paris Writer in Residence. Blackhurst is a writer, critic, and the a ...
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Footloose Musical Continues Student-Led Performing Arts Revival
It’s been a strong couple of years for the performing arts at AUP. Following on from last year’s student-led Spring Arts Festival, the VIVRE performing arts club has this year collaborated with AUP’s Office of Student Leadership to put on a production of ...
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Fall 2025 AUP Magazine: Celebrating Our Community Near and Far
The Fall 2025 issue of AUP Magazine is out now, celebrating the creativity, curiosity, and global connections that define our community. From faculty pushing research forward to alumni leading change across industries worldwide, this issue showcases the m ...
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First Year Students Visit the Loire Valley
Your first semester at AUP has arrived. Your bags are packed; your plane tickets are booked. And all around the world, your future classmates are preparing to land in Paris for the adventure of a lifetime. But what awaits you in your first year? Once on ...
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Giving Voice to the Voiceless: Professor Miranda Spieler's New Book on Slaves in Paris
By Katelyn Simone “I study people on the run,” says AUP Professor Miranda Spieler, a historian of France and its overseas empire whose expertise spans European legal history, human rights, slavery and emancipation. Her first book, Empire and Underworld: ...
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Lauded as a Librarian, Alumna Homa Naficy ‘80 Advocates for Immigrants
By Kristin Sanders Homa Naficy ’80 never set out to become a librarian, or even a U.S. citizen, for that matter. Yet in her decades-long career as a librarian she has excelled at both, earning prestigious accolades along the way: In 2013 the Obama White ...