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Academic Director of the Honors College

Nicole Rudolph, Ph.D., holds graduate degrees from several institutions, including a Master’s degree in French Language and Literature from the University of Pittsburgh, a DEA in Social Sciences from the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and a Ph.D. in interdisciplinary French Studies from New York University. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Research Award and came to ¹û½´ÊÓƵ in 2009 from Columbia University, where she directed the Maison Française. Before joining the Honors College, Dr. Rudolph was Associate Professor in the and held a joint appointment in the . She has also served as the Director of ¹û½´ÊÓƵ’s .

Dr. Rudolph’s research brings together political, social, and cultural history. She has worked as the Managing Editor of the journalÌýFrench Politics, Culture and SocietyÌýand is author of the bookÌýAt Home in Postwar France: Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort.

She also serves as a member of the Board of Visitors for the University Honors College at the University of Pittsburgh, her alma mater, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in her junior year.