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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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Writer–Director Carolina Cavalli ’13 Has a Message for Aspiring Filmmakers
Take yourself seriously – right from the beginning. Even if other people don’t. Carolina Cavalli ’13 Carolina Cavalli ’13 is an Italian screenwriter, director and author whose first film, Amanda (2022), achieved acclaim at both the Venice and Toronto inte ...
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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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The Ultimate Education: Mattie Drucker on Athletics, Academics, and Belonging Through Frisbee
Matlyn “Mattie” Drucker is a graduate student in Global Communications at The American University of Paris and a former player on the French National Ultimate Frisbee Team. Through the intersection of sports and academia, Mattie has cultivated a life defi ...
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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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Lauded as a Librarian, Alumna Homa Naficy ‘80 Advocates for Immigrants
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 House named her a Ch ...
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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
“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: Captivity in French ...
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Running Through History: Alumnus Geir Stian Ulstein’s Journey from Paris to Moscow
When Norwegian author and historian Geir Stian Ulstein ’04 set out to retrace the legendary 1832 run from Paris to Moscow, he wasn’t trying to break any records. He simply wanted to attempt the incredible feat of his 19th-century compatriot Mensen Ernst, ...