Annick Foucrier

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			professor at the University of Paris I

Near Monterey, California. (Photo Denise Sallee)

Annick Foucrier holds a Ph.D. from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. Her dissertation focused on “France, the French, and California before the Gold Rush, 1786-1848.” She now teaches at the University of Paris I, and is vice-president of the Society for North-American Studies (SENA). She has most notably published on French immigrants in California, on the expansion to the West, on Lewis and Clark, and on gangsters in American society. She worked on the multimedia project San Francisco (CD-ROM and book, coll. Terre des villes, Belin, 2002-2003). She also wrote on the history of California for two travel guides, Gallimard's Californie, 2002 Hachette's Blue Guide (2004). She edited The French and the Pacific World, 17th-19th centuries: Explorations, Migrations and Cultural Exchanges, Aldershot, UK, Ashgate Publishing Co., 2005, 342p. and co-edited with Antoine Coppolani La Californie, périphérie ou laboratoire? L'Harmattan, 2004, 300p. She is at work on projects on international migrations, on French scientific missions in America and the Pacific world in the 19th century.

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