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Women Leading Globally: Fashion
none Charla Carter entered the Parisian fashion world at a time when fashion was high fashion, and it had the power to satisfy a certain woman’s desires for beauty. However, after 30 years working in the heart of the industry, she realized that fashion as ...
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A Splendid Global Table: AUP Alums Dish on Careers in the Food Industry
none The conversation in the Library Atrium sizzled last month at the AUP Alumni in Food Roundtable. In a discussion moderated by Christy Shields, Associate Professor of Global Communications, four AUP alumni with thriving professions in the food industry ...
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From a Francophone Perspective: Gender and Race in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games
none Article written by AUP Assistant Professor Caroline Laurent, French Studies and Modern Languages Department Since 2016, through its Olympics Art Visions programme, the Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage has commissioned a sculpture to repres ...
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Tanya Elder Deepens Understanding of Experiential Learning through Qualitative Research
none For Tanya Elder, experiential learning means learning about learning. As Professor of Communications in AUP’s Master’s in Global Communications, Elder has been pioneering experiential learning in sustainable development, anthropology and communicatio ...
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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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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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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 ...