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Paris is the #1 City for Students in Europe
none The QS Best Student Cities Index for 2017 has been published and Paris has been ranked as the best city in Europe for students for the sixth year in a row. Among the numerous criteria used in the ranking process, the QS Index cited the unparalleled a ...
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Announcing the Quai d’Orsay Society, a New Legacy Giving Program for AUP’s Future
none AUP's generous community of alumni, former students, trustees, parents and friends supports initiatives across the University with direct financial contributions to scholarships, campus redevelopment projects, an endowment and more. Now, the AUP ...
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Michael Festl on Experimental Democracy
none On Thursday, April 21, 2022, AUP’s Center for Critical Democracy Studies (CCDS), a research center that promotes the practice, study and life of democracy, hosted Dr. Michael Festl, Permanent Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of St. Gallen and ...
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France is the Most Attractive Study Abroad Destination in Europe
none According to a recent survey conducted by Campus France and the Kantar Public Institute, France is the top study abroad destination in Europe, pulling ahead of the UK, Germany and Spain. For those of us at AUP, this comes as no surprise. France – par ...
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AUP Hosts Largest-Ever In-Person Graduation
none On May 23, 2022, The American University of Paris hosted a special graduation ceremony in honor of three years of global explorers at the Théatre du Châtelet in Paris, as the Class of 2022 was joined by the Classes of 2021 and 2020 for the largest-ev ...
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AUP Welcomes Largest-Ever Incoming Class
none In France, September is known as la rentrée – an end to summer vacation and the start of a new school year. For AUP, this means welcoming a new cohort of students to campus, global explorers from all over the world who come to Paris to study the libe ...
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AUP Celebrates the Release of Demos Assembled by Professor Stephen Sawyer
none On Tuesday, April 17th the AUP History Department hosted an event to celebrate the publication and release of department head Stephen Sawyer’s new book, Demos Assembled: Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State. The room was packed ...
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Students Explore Civil Society in Israel in Hour-Long Documentary
none In Fall semester 2019, students taking Professor Sharon Weill’s graduate-level class on “Civil Society: International and Comparative Perspectives,” traveled to Israel as part of AUP’s Cultural Program to meet with civil society groups working to pro ...
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Professor Peter Hägel on Billionaires in World Politics
none Peter Hägel is an assistant professor at AUP and the program coordinator for the philosophy, politics and economics major. We caught up to discuss his recent book publication, Billionaires in World Politics (Oxford University Press, 2020). How did yo ...
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Using Anthropology to Understand Public Trust in Big Food
none On Thursday, November 14, 2019, Professor Christy Shields, a food anthropologist from AUP’s Department of Global Communications, welcomed guest speakers Dr. Chelsie Yount-André (Montpellier, CIRAC) and Dr. Gyorgy Scrinis (University of Melbourne) to ...