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Want to join the Friends of the French Studies Program?

Whether you’re a student interested in France, a faculty member with a French connection, or just want to stay up to date on all things French in the community, please contact us with your name and position to join. All are welcome!

Director

Larry Hyman
hyman@berkeley.edu

Assistant Director

Julia Nelsen

jknelsen@berkeley.edu

Affiliated Faculty

David Bates, Professor of Rhetoric
dwbates@calmail.berkeley.edu 
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Karl Britto, Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature
kbritto@berkeley.edu 
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Marion Fourcade, Associate Professor of Sociology
fourcade@berkeley.edu 
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Suzanne Guerlac, Professor of French
guerlac@berkeley.edu 
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Jocelyne Guilbault, Professor of Music, Ethnomusicology
jguilbau@socrates.berkeley.edu 
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Timothy Hampton, Professor of French
thampton@berkeley.edu 
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Carla Hesse, Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of History
chesse@berkeley.edu 
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David Hult, Professor of French
dhult@berkeley.edu 
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Richard Kern, Director of Berkeley Language Center, Professor of French
rkern@berkeley.edu 
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Geoffrey Koziol, Associate Professor of History
gkoz@berkeley.edu 
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Celeste Langan, Associate Professor of English
clangan@berkeley.edu 
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Jonah Levy, Associate Professor of Political Science
jlevy@berkeley.edu 
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Michael Lucey, Professor of French and Comparative Literature
mlucey@berkeley.edu 
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Susan Maslan, Associate Professor of French
samaslan@berkeley.edu 
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Laurent Mayali, Professor of Law and Director of the Robbins Collection in Religious and Civil Law 
lmayali@law.berkeley.edu 
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Nicholas Paige, Professor of French
npaige@berkeley.edu 
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Claude Potts, Librarian for Romance Languages
cpotts@library.berkeley.edu 
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Paul Rabinow, Professor of Anthropology
rabinow@berkeley.edu 
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Peter Sahlins, Professor of History and Director of ISF
sahlins@berkeley.edu 
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Debarati Sanyal, Associate Professor of French
sanyal@berkeley.edu 
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Anne Smock, Professor of French and Head Graduate Advisor
asmock@berkeley.edu 
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Francoise Sorgen-Goldschmidt, Professor Emerita of French
sorgengd@berkeley.edu 
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Other Affiliations

France-Berkeley Fund
The FBF provides seed money for innovative, bi-national research collaborations between the Bay Area (UC Berkeley and UC Davis) and France.