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Porder Stephen

Home institution: Brown University

Host institution: Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris

Field of study: Environmental Sciences
Length of stay: 01/2021-06/2021

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Porder Stephen

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Porder is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Brown University. His work focuses on understanding what limits the growth of tropical rainforests, and his more recent efforts have branched into understanding the environmental challenges of industrial agriculture, and the social, economic and ecological barriers to large scale tropical reforestation. He is also a Fellow in the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, the Director of the Climate Solutions Initiative, and the Assistant Provost for Sustainability. In this latter role, he leads Brown's efforts to eliminate fossil fuel combustion from campus, transition to 100% renewably generated electricity, and integrating teaching and research on sustainability into the daily campus life. He also works with other universities and others outside the academy to accelerate the transition to zero carbon emissions with the goal of slowing global climate change.

Alem Nasim

Home institution: Pennsylvania State University

Host institution: Université Paris-Saclay

Field of study: Materials Science, Electron Microscopy
Length of stay: 07/2021-11/2021

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Alem Nasim

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Dr. Nasim Alem is an Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering department at Penn State University. Nasim was a postdoctoral researcher in the physics department at University of California Berkeley and National Center for Electron Microscopy at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, before joining Penn State as an assistant professor in 2013. Nasim’s research is focused on how advanced electron microscopy techniques can be utilized to further understand and address the existing challenges in novel nanostructures and devices. Nasim’s research is particularly focused on how defects and interfaces can modulate the chemical and electronic structure of the crystals and further tailor their macroscale electronic, optical and plasmonic properties. Nasim is originally from Iran and enjoys hiking, skiing, and travelling. In her spare time, Nasim does wheel throwing and ceramic artwork.
Astourian Laure

Home institution: Bentley University

Host institution: Ecole normale supérieure

Field of study: French cinema, film history
Length of stay: 07/2021-11/2021

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Astourian Laure

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Laure Astourian is a specialist in French and Francophone cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. She has been Assistant Professor of French at Bentley University since 2017. Astourian holds a Ph.D. in French from Columbia University (2016) and was the 2016-2017 Phi Beta Kappa Mary Isabel Sibley Fellow in French Studies. She also earned a B.A. in French and in film studies (double major) from the University of California at Berkeley (2008). Her publications include “Jean Rouch’s Moi, un Noir in the French New Wave” (Studies in French Cinema, Vol. 18, n. 3, 2018) and “Moi, un Blanc: De la genèse d’À bout de souffle” (Dans le sillage de Jean Rouch, Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2018). Her French to English translations have appeared in Romanic Review and KinoKultura. As a Fulbright Scholar, Astourian will complete her book manuscript at the École normale supérieure, where she will be hosted by Professor Antoine de Baecque.
Loiselle Kenneth

Home institution: Trinity University

Host institution: Université Côte d'Azur

Field of study: History
Length of stay: 01/2021-04/2021

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Loiselle Kenneth

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Kenneth Loiselle is a social and cultural historian of France from roughly the middle of the seventeenth century to the Napoleonic era. His longstanding research interests are in the history of sociability, popular religion, the history of animals and humans, and the connections between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution.
Marjanska Malgorzata

Home institution: University of Minnesota

Host institution: Institut du Cerveau et de la Moelle

Field of study: Medical Sciences
Length of stay: 05/2021-10/2021

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Marjanska Malgorzata

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Malgorzata Marjanska is a professor in the Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota, who specializes in magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS). She received a B.S. in chemistry with minor in mathematics from the Loyola University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley. She joined the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR) in 2002 as a post-doctoral fellow and remained there as a faculty. Dr. Marjanska is interested in developing MRS techniques for humans and rodents over a wide range of field strengths (3 T to 16.4 T) and application of those methods to study various diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, dystonia, depression, and brain tumors.

Greenberg Jessica

Home institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Host institution: MISHA, Université de Strasbourg

Field of study: Anthropology
Length of stay: 05/2021-10/2021

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Greenberg Jessica

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Jessica Greenberg is an associate professor of Anthropology. Her work is motivated by a long-standing interest in the everyday life of social movements, as well as the hopes and disappointments that have animated democratic political activism after the Cold War. Her first book, After the Revolution: Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia (Stanford 2014) chronicles the lives of student activists as they confront the possibilities and disappointments of democracy in the shadow of political transformation in Serbia. Her current research builds on this interest in democratic practice, activism and power through the lens of human rights and the rule of law. Prior to coming to UIUC, Greenberg was an Academy Scholar at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, and an assistant professor in Communication Studies at Northwestern University. She is currently the Co-Editor of the Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR).

Cange Charles

Home institution: CUNY Lehman College

Host institution: Maison européenne des sciences de l'homme et de la société

Field of study: Sociology
Length of stay: 03/2021-02/2022

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Cange Charles

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DONAHUE Tiane

Home institution: Dartmouth College

Host institution: Université de Lille

Field of study: Linguistics
Length of stay: 04/2021-03/2022

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DONAHUE Tiane

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Christiane Donahue is Associate Professor of Linguistics, Immediate Past Director of the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH, USA, and member of the Théodile-CIREL research laboratory at l’Université de Lille, France. She teaches writing and works cross-culturally and cross-disciplinarily with research groups in the US and Europe on questions including: university student writing across cultures; international research and cross-disciplinary influence; accuracy in accountings of the spread of English; studies of the losses and gains entailed in globalization of research and writing; research methods that work across humanistic and social science modes; traditional corpus linguistic analyses and their contribution to current big data and digital humanities questions; studies of writing knowledge adaptation across modes and contexts. She was elected Chair of the International Society for the Advancement of Writing Research in 2020.

Bernal Victoria

Home institution: University of California, Irvine

Host institution: Sciences Po Bordeaux

Field of study: Anthropology
Length of stay: 07/2021-03/2022

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Bernal Victoria

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Victoria Bernal's scholarship in political anthropology contributes to media and IT studies, gender studies, and African studies. Her work addresses questions relating to politics, gender, migration and diaspora, war, globalization, transnationalism, civil society and activism, development, digital media, and Islam. Dr. Bernal’s research is particularly concerned with relations of power and inequality, and the dynamic struggles of ordinary people as they confront the cruel and absurd contradictions arising from the concentration of wealth and political power locally and globally. She is the author of Nation as Network: Diaspora, Cyberspace, and Citizenship, and Cultivating Workers: Peasants and Capitalism in a Sudanese Village. Dr. Bernal co-edited the anthology, Theorizing NGOs: States, Feminisms, and Neoliberalism. She has carried out ethnographic research in Sudan, Tanzania, Eritrea, Silicon Valley, and cyberspace. She was born in New York, New York. She is married with two grown daughters. Hobbies include painting, hiking, and boogie boarding when waves are small enough.

Davis Darién

Home institution: Middlebury College

Host institution: Aix-Marseille Université

Field of study: History
Length of stay: 01/2021-08/2021

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Davis Darién

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Darién J. Davis is professor of history and former chair of the history department at Middlebury College and former chair of Latin American Studies. Davis teaches courses on Latin American, Caribbean, and Atlantic world history with specialties in the history of migration and diaspora in the Atlantic world and comparative migration studies. He is the author of four books, three edited volumes, numerous peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and curricular development texts. A polyglot who has lived and worked in the Caribbean, South America, Canada, Europe, and the United States, Professor Davis has worked as a consultant to a number of academic and non-government agencies focusing on minority rights and migration.

Dial Andrew

Home institution: Georgetown University

Host institution: EHESS

Field of study: History
Length of stay: 03/2021-02/2022

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Dial Andrew

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Andrew has a Ph.D. in French Atlantic history from McGill University in Montreal. His work studies the Society of Jesus, a Catholic religious order, commonly known as the Jesuits, as a financial and slaveholding institution. His work has been funded by the John Carter Brown Library, the American Philosophical Society, and the McNeil Center for Early American Studies. He has held positions at Louisiana State University and Georgetown University.

Kurlander Eric

Home institution: Eric Kurlander

Host institution: Institut historique allemand

Field of study: History
Length of stay: 05/2021-07/2021

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Kurlander Eric

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Eric Kurlander, PhD, is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Modern European History at Stetson University. Kurlander earned his BA at Bowdoin College and his MA and PhD at Harvard University. He offers courses on Modern German, European, and World History and his current book project, which is the topic of his 2020-2021 Fulbright Global Scholar Award, is titled: Before the Final Solution: A Global History of the Nazi “Jewish Question”. Kurlander’s recent monograph, Hitler's Monsters: A Supernatural History of the Third Reich (Yale, 2017; paperback 2018), offers the first comprehensive study of the supernatural in Nazi Germany, illustrating how the Third Reich drew upon a wide variety of occult practices, esoteric sciences and pagan religious ideas to gain power, shape propaganda and policy, and pursue their dreams of racial utopia and empire. The book has been reviewed positively in the Washington Post, Times of London, and Der Spiegel, among many other periodicals, and has been translated into Italian, Polish, Czech, Croatian, and Estonian (with Chinese and Russian editions appearing next year). Kurlander has published four other books and edited volumes as well as articles in leading journals, including Central European History, German History, and The Journal of Contemporary History. He has held research and writing fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; the German Historical Institute; the German Academic Exchange Service; the Krupp Foundation; and Harvard University's Program for the Study of Germany and Europe. At Stetson, Kurlander has received the William Hugh McInery Award for Excellence in Teaching and has contributed to the university in numerous leadership roles. He has served as Chair of the History Department, Chair of the Sociology and Anthropology Department, Chair of the Professional Development Committee, Chair of the Arts & Sciences Tenure and Promotion Committee, and Chair of the Faculty Finance and Budget Committee as well as multiple terms on the Faculty Senate. In his free time, Kurlander enjoys parenting, reading, travel, sports, and popular culture. (https://www.stetson.edu/other/faculty/eric-kurlander.php)

Wilf Steven

Home institution: University of Connecticut

Host institution: Université de Strasbourg

Field of study: Law
Length of stay: 01/2021-07/2021

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Wilf Steven

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Steven Wilf is Anthony J. Smits Professor of Global Commerce at the University of Connecticut School of Law. An intellectual property scholar and a legal historian, his writings include works on both Europe’s and America’s legal past as well as on a variety of legal regimes such as copyright and patent. He earned his law degree and a doctorate in history from Yale University, and clerked in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. His fellowships include Princeton’s Law and Public Affairs, Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute, and Kaminstein Scholar in Residence at the United States Copyright Office. He is currently completing a book for Cambridge University Press on the history of intellectual property law. During his Fulbright year at the Centre d'Etudes Internationales de la Propriété Intellectuelle in Strasbourg, he will be working on a project to bridge the gaps between United States and European Union approaches to trade secrets.

Chilson-Parks Laura

Home institution: Brown University

Host institution: Université de Bourgogne

Field of study: Art History
Length of stay: 07/2021-03/2022

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Chilson-Parks Laura

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At the end of the 14th century, the fortresses and gardens that the Duchess of Burgundy, Margaret of Flanders (1350-1405), and her husband, Philip the Bold (1342-1404), constructed and renovated were not just products of the duchy’s ‘rebranding’ under the newly minted Valois- Burgundy dynasty, but rather crucial components of its enactment. My approach to reconstructing Margaret’s involvement brings together the fortresses, gardens and oratories of the ducal residences to discuss identity performance, using sources at multiple registers to construct different historic perspectives and to broaden the contributions and roles women had in patronage. Within this expansive and pluralistic approach, the often-overlooked Margaret of Flanders assumes a crucial role in not only constructing the lofty reputation of the Valois-Burgundy, but also in ushering in a new phase in Northern European art at large.
Cisneros Freddy

Home institution: University of Michigan

Host institution: Sorbonne Université

Field of study: Physics
Length of stay: 06/2021-03/2022

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Cisneros Freddy

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The goal of our collaboration between the research groups of Jordan Horowitz (University of Michigan) and Alexandre Solon (Sorbonne Université) is to apply tools of nonequilibrium thermodynamics to the study of the statistical physics of active matter systems. The first project focuses on using an information-theoretic approach to extend the second law of thermodynamics. The second project aims to explore the meaning of chemical potential to active systems.
Flor Fernando

Home institution: University of Houston

Host institution: Université de Strasbourg

Field of study: Physics
Length of stay: 01/2021 - 10/2021

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Flor Fernando

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The conditions present at the early stages of the Universe can be experimentally emulated by accelerating heavy atoms close to the speed of light and then colliding them in a controlled environment. Currently, there does not exist a substantially accurate thermal model which describes the overarching dynamical mechanism occurring at the boundary of the aforementioned transition of the cosmic soup. My intent is to develop a statistical thermal model, alongside my collaborators in Strasbourg, to adequately describe the current phenomenological observations acquired by heavy ion colliders and to provide a better understanding about the Universe in which we reside.
Idriss Cara

Home institution: New York University

Host institution: L'Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées

Field of study: Anthropology
Length of stay: 01/2021-10/2021

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Idriss Cara

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My project explores changing understandings of autism in France through an analysis of the project "Construire une Université Aspie-Friendly". The "Aspie-Friendly" project is supported the French government, with additional support from private companies. Based in Toulouse, it supports students on the autism spectrum at a network of universities across France. My research will use ethnographic methods to understand how, why, and by whom, new autism categories are being constructed in France, and what that means for the young autistic adults who are at the center of this process.
Tower Kimberly

Home institution: American University

Host institution: Sciences Po Toulouse

Field of study: Political Science
Length of stay: 01/2021-09/2021

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Tower Kimberly

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How and when do symbols of "otherness" influence political behavior? This research examines how cultural businesses - or self-labelled establishments that sell products associated with a given culture, like a Chinese restaurant, German pub, or kosher supermarket - act as symbols of identity at the local level; depending on the ways in which people interact with them, they may shape the way voters perceive themselves, their neighborhood, and the salience of certain political platforms. I plan to use participant observation and informal interviews to understand: what do these establishments represent, for whom, and under what conditions? What are the reactions to the culturally-constituted spaces they create? This work builds on previous large-N statistical analysis of an original dataset of cultural businesses across France, and is part of a dissertation examining the strategic mobilization of symbols and their effect on political processes.
Valyi-Nagy Zsofia

Home institution: University of Chicago

Host institution: Sorbonne Université

Field of study: Art History
Length of stay: 03/2021-11/2021

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Valyi-Nagy Zsofia

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My dissertation focuses on Vera Molnar (b. 1924), a Hungarian-born artist who moved to Paris in 1947 and began experimenting with electronic computers in the late 1960s. I examine Molnar as a key node in an international, interdisciplinary network of artists and thinkers who explored the computer’s impact on creativity. My onsite research combines the close study of artworks and computer history artifacts with archival research and artist interviews.

FORER Joshua

Home institution: University of Central Florida

Host institution: Université de Bordeaux

Field of study: Physique
Length of stay: 01/2021-10/2021

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FORER Joshua

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Nous étudierons deux mécanismes qui prennent place dans le milieu interstellaire : la photoionisation du radical CH et la création des ions moléculaires négatifs via les résonances Feshbach rotationnelles. Pour ceci, nous développerons la théorie et les codes nécessaires, puis on comparera nos résultats aux spectres expérimentaux.

Bankin Mark

Home institution: New York University

Host institution: Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris

Field of study: Dance
Length of stay: 09/2020-07/2021

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Bankin Mark

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My project at the Conservatoire de Paris is to learn Laban Movement Notation in order to examine the history, purposes, consequences, and implications of using Laban's system in an ethnographic capacity. Focusing on an endangered Tibetan circle dance called Gorshay and working with the refugee community in Paris, I hope to uncover systemic faults with Laban, critique its complicity in cultural genocide, and problematize the fragmentation of bodies through notation, archives, anthropological gazes, and juridical regulations to explore how Gorshay has suffered erasure, artificial formalization, and increasing extinction. This project will analyze some Labanotation scores and offer others to conduct point-by-point critiques on how Laban’s system’s use in Tibetan dance merits renewed consideration on the task of the notator and the limits to what a notator can claim.
Day Hannah

Home institution: University of Oklahoma

Host institution: Ecole Normale Supérieure

Field of study: Theoretical Physics
Length of stay: 09/2020-06/2021

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Day Hannah

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I am working to complete a master's degree in theoretical physics through the ENS International Centre for Fundamental Physics. The program consists of two trimesters of advanced physics coursework, then a final trimester devoted to completing a research project with a professor in the region.
Ebangwese Santita

Home institution: Syracuse University

Host institution: Université Paris-Saclay

Field of study: Biology
Length of stay: 09/2020-06/2021

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Ebangwese Santita

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This is a research-intensive master's program where I will learn the principles of biology from the molecular level to the whole organism via group-centered learning. I will learn to design an original research project and conducting it independently from an experimental perspective. Furthermore, I will specialize in gene biotherapies and will be able to conduct research in an accredited lab.
Edgar Deanna

Home institution: United States Military Academy

Host institution: Université Catholique de Lille

Field of study: Political Science
Length of stay: 09/2020-06/2022

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Edgar Deanna

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I plan to identify similarities and differences in the French and American militaries as it pertains to gender equality. As the two countries are culturally different is suspect there will be many differences in the two militaries. I hope to use my discoveries to draw conclusions on culture and gender norms to help benefit both militaries.
Ellington Clayton

Home institution: Stanford University

Host institution: Institut Pasteur

Field of study: Biomedical Engineering
Length of stay: 09/2020-06/2021

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Ellington Clayton

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Hamburger Nicholas

Home institution: Kenyon College

Host institution: Musée d'Histoire de Marseille

Field of study: Creative Writing
Length of stay: 07/2021-03/2022

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Hamburger Nicholas

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I plan to research the experience of Jewish refugees in Marseille from 1940 to 1943 before chronicling the city's present-day Jewish community. I intend to produce a work of literary non-fiction that emerges from a combination of archival research and communal engagement; my historical investigation will begin at the Musée d'Histoire de Marseille, while my dialogue with members of the current Jewish community, including Holocaust rescapés, will be facilitated by the Consistoire Israélite.
James Isabel

Home institution: Princeton University

Host institution: EHESS

Field of study: Environmental Development
Length of stay: 10/2020-07/2021

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James Isabel

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I am thrilled to be in Paris this year to complete a master’s degree in Comparative Development at EHESS. After spending this past year in Senegal conducting research on the impact of foreign fishing on local small scale fishing, I will use my data as the basis for my thesis. I am working under the supervision of Tarik Dahou, an environmental anthropologist at l’Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) and am excited to meet other researchers who study fisheries, particularly in West Africa.
Jiménez Mendel

Home institution: Vassar College

Host institution: Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon

Field of study: Humanities
Length of stay: 09/2020-06/2021

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Jiménez Mendel

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I propose to research how selected French playwrights adapted the tragedies of Euripides, specifically along religious lines, during the Enlightenment. My research will be part of a Master's degree program at the ENS de Lyon. Euripides's plays have inspired questions about religion and its role in society and life since they were first performed in classical Athens. My reception study will have implications for the history of French secularism by tracing the flow of thought between Euripides and French playwrights during the enlightenment. The theater's historical connection to democracy and its ability to portray and propose solutions to societal problems will inform my research and the conversations I have in Lyon, where I will volunteer in cultural institutions that foster mutual understanding and shared values.
Santos Andrew

Home institution: Purdue University

Host institution: Ecole Polytechnique

Field of study: Physics
Length of stay: 09/2020-06/2021

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Santos Andrew

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In parallel with a Master's program in high energy physics, I will study the tiny, shapeshifting particles called "neutrinos." Specifically, my focus will be on the remnants of exploding stars at the end of their lives, which are referred to as "supernovae." Most of the energy released during these spectacular events is carried away by neutrinos. What is then left behind from many years of supernova explosions is a sea of neutrinos permeating space - the Diffuse Supernova Neutrino Background. By exploring the intersection of theory and experiment in this domain, I will dive into what the DSNB tells us about our understanding of physics and of the universe we inhabit.
Wallace Harper

Home institution: Denison University

Host institution: Ecole Normale Supérieure, Université PSL

Field of study: Cognitive Science
Length of stay: 09/2020-06/2021

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Wallace Harper

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I am currently working with Dr. Rava A. da Silveira of the Département de Physique at ENS, investigating how efficient neural encoding mechanisms (which underlie how people internalize information about the options that they are deciding between) may give rise to "irrational" decision-making and other decision biases.

Barbas Alicia

Home institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Host institution: CY Cergy Paris Université

Field of study: International Relations
Length of stay: 09/2020-06/2021

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Barbas Alicia

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This is an interdisciplinary Masters program focusing on relations between Europe and the Americas. It requires a knowledge of French, English and Spanish. Topics studied include global migration patterns, human rights, politics of modern cities, the roles of international institutions in conflict, and relationships between the Global North and South. In the first part of the program, I will be writing a thesis in which I will research and compare the affects of Press Freedom/Censorship in France and the United States. Finally, the program culminates in an internship at an international organization in Paris. I hope to complete this at an international NGO that deals with the rights of journalists and/or immigrants and refugees.
Guthery Ross

Home institution: The Ohio State University

Host institution: CY Cergy Paris Université

Field of study: Data Science and Business Analytics
Length of stay: 09/2020-06/2021

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Guthery Ross

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Data science uses analytical methods to extrapolate insights from information society generates every day. As a Fulbright recipient, I will attend the Master’s in Data Science and Business Analytics program offered jointly by École Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales (ESSEC) and CentraleSupélec in Cergy-Pontoise, France. This program embraces a unique hybrid structure that capitalizes on the resources of two leading European business and engineering schools to teach all that is required of a data scientist today. I will take courses in mathematics, statistics, network science, deep learning, and decision analysis among others. I plan to leverage what I learn in the classroom to food insecurity from a data science perspective in my thesis. Specifically, I aim to analyze non-obvious proxies to an individual’s movement to better understand how people who live in a food desert, an area that has limited access to affordable and nutritious food, get around their community. I will then share my findings with the nonprofits and social enterprises working to address the issue to make their efforts more effective. Because of ESSEC’s program, I will be a better advocate for these nonprofits and social enterprises in addition to the food desert issue at-large.
Romani Clara

Home institution: Stanford University

Host institution: CY Cergy Paris Université

Field of study: History
Length of stay: 09/2020-06/2021

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Romani Clara

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My thesis investigates the social status of women in late Cathar society in the Languedoc. Using inquisitorial records taken from 1273 to 1284 at Toulouse, I explore how the economic agency of women in the region facilitated their active participation in the heresy. In my work, I combine traditional historiographical methods with network analysis to gain a more complete picture of these women's lives and the ways in which they engaged in their society.

Pankin Lauren

Home institution: University of Chicago

Host institution: ENS Paris-Saclay

Field of study: History
Length of stay: 09/2020-06/2021

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Pankin Lauren

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My research project at ENS Paris-Saclay aims to address the ideological aporias between the E.U.'s goal of a "postnational citizenship" and the particular national "Frenchness" that adds value to certain luxury patrimonial goods, such as fine wine. This Master's degree in contemporary political history will equip me with quantitative and theoretical social sciences tools, but more importantly, an understanding of French institutions, historiography, and methodological approaches. I hope to apply my American methodologies (e.g. commodity histories) to French methodologies (e.g. prioritization of logical argumentation), a hybrid approach that may be useful in a potential career as a Franco-American trade lawyer or as an academic.
Williams Christien

Home institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Host institution: ENS Paris-Saclay

Field of study: Computer Science
Length of stay: 09/2020-06/2021

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Williams Christien

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Remote sensing (satellite imaging) promotes applications such as evaluating oil stocks, identifying urbanization and city growth, counting vehicles in traffic, counting energy production plants in countries and continents, etc. A chief hindrance in remote sensing from the use of novel deep learning methods for classification and segmentation, is poorly annotated data or a limited amount of annotated data at all. I will build an a machine learning system to orient the annotation process to learn faster. The system will take in limited annotated data, begin learning, and then improve its annotations by querying the most informative new instances to update its learning parameters. Ultimately, in modest time, and exert (oracle) in any remote sensing task, can build a large dataset to be used for imaging techniques ranging from segmentation to classification.

Frisch Simon

Home institution: The Juilliard School

Host institution: Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris

Field of study: Music Composition
Length of stay: 07/2021-03/2022

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Frisch Simon

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This joint composition/research project intends to examine the intersection of gender, politics, and culture in the reign of Anne of Brittany (1477 - 1514), whose legacy remains charged five centuries after her death. A song cycle for two soloists and an ensemble of medieval/Renaissance instruments of her court will juxtapose historical texts from her well-documented coronations and funeral (which famously lasted forty days) with poems by contemporary Anglo-Breton poet Claire Trévien, on themes of memory and sea. The cycle will integrate and thereby contextualize largely unknown but strongly politicized choral motets of her Franco-Flemish court composers, research on which will be conducted at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris.

Grau Nathan

Home institution: Harvard University

Host institution: Université Paris Nanterre

Field of study: History
Length of stay: 01/2021-09/2021

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Grau Nathan

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A veritable arc of revolution swept through France’s overseas colonies in the fifteen years after 1945. In Indochina (1945-1954), Madagascar (1947-1948), and Algeria (1954-1962), French efforts to “liberalize” and reform the empire collided with insurrectionary movements aiming to overthrow the colonial state. This collision of reform and revolution created unprecedented risks – and opportunities – for the local collaborators upon whom the colonial state increasingly relied for legitimacy and defense as the conflicts escalated. My research examines the influence of colonial reform on the fighting practices of local paramilitaries in French service, looking specifically at how collaborators across all three theaters of colonial conflict exploited the resources and legitimacy furnished by these reforms to establish semi-sovereign fiefs outside of French control. A focus on the localities where paramilitary collaborators fought reveals transnational networks of personnel, ideologies, and experiences that shaped the trajectories of all three decolonization conflicts and eventually durably transformed the institutions of the French state.

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