The Department of History offers exceptional opportunities for students interested in the history of France and the larger Francophone world, at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.  Three faculty members are full-time specialists in the social, political, and intellectual history of early-modern and modern France; two others work on topics related to the history of the French colonial empire and modern Francophone culture outside of Europe.   Students can also call upon the resources of a solid program in medieval and modern European history within the History Department, and those of a wide range of scholars working on French and Francophone culture in other departments at Arizona State University, including Languages & Literatures, Art and Architecture, and Southeast Asian Studies.  The historians of France in the Department also host on an ongoing faculty-student seminar, "French Historians of Arizona," whose members drawn from both Arizona State University and the wider Phoenix academic community, as well the University of Arizona and Northern Arizona University.  For more information on French history at Arizona State University, please contact any of the faculty listed below.

Andrew Barnes
Professor Barnes (Ph.D., Princeton University) is a specialist in the history of Christianity, in both early-modern France and Africa.

Chouki El Hamel
Professor El Hamel (Ph.D., Sorbonne) is a specialist in the history of North Africa, slavery, patriarchy, and women in Islamic Africa, and the Muslim Diaspora in France and Western Europe. 

Rachel G. Fuchs
Professor Fuchs (Ph.D. Indiana University) is a leading authority on the social history of modern France, with a particular focus on gender and the social history of the family.  She a former President of the Society for French Historical Studies, and currently serves on the Executive Council of the Western Society for French History.

Victoria Thompson
Professor Thompson (Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania) is a specialist in the cultural and social history of nineteenth France; her research interests include the history of women and gender, and urban space in France and colonial Algeria.  She currently serves on the editorial board of the journal French Historical Studies.

Kent Wright
Professor Wright (Ph.D., University of Chicago) is a specialist in the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, with a particular focus on the history of French political thought in the eighteenth century, as well as the wider history of intellectuals in modern France.  He is a former Vice-President of the Society for French Historical Studies.