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Voices of the Global Majority Promotes Emancipation Through Education
none The student-led club Voices of the Global Majority emerged from a deep-seated need felt among students to bring underrepresented perspectives into the academic conversation. “We wanted to give center stage to voices that have historically resisted co ...
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Reclaiming History through Color and Joy: the Visionary Art of Maya Freelon
When artist and educator Maya Freelon '00 was a girl, her grandmother taught her to quilt–and to stitch together far more than fabric. In her grandmother’s hands, quilting was an act of interconnectedness and creativity rooted in their family’s legac ...
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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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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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AUP Awards Honorary Degrees to Three Interdisciplinary Thinkers and Creators at Commencement 2025
Each year, we are proud to honor individuals whose work profoundly resonates with The American University of Paris’ mission and values. This year’s Commencement Ceremony on May 23, 2025, celebrates artist Julien Creuzet, writer Édouard Louis, and scholar ...
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AUP Makes Université History: A Flagship Building for a Global Community
A new chapter is beginning on AUP’s campus, with the arrival of a new building at 127bis-129 rue de l’Université, the renovation of the AMEX Café, and reimagined lobbies for the Combes Student Life Center and the Quai d’Orsay Learning Commons, the largest ...
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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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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: ...