Curriculum Vitae

Claire-Marie Brisson is a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of French. She serves as the Program Co-Director to the UVA School of Engineering's Global Technology Practice in Stuttgart, Germany. She co-teaches a course in the School of Engineering focusing on Design Thinking in Practice. She also works as the Graduate Program Director of UVA's European Studies M.A. Program, as well as one of two Jewish Studies Program assistants.

Claire-Marie formerly served as the Program Co-Director for UVA's January Term in Berlin and Weimar (Germany: Past and Present). She also functions as special correspondent to Radio-Canada on issues related to Charlottesville and the alt-right, and is the US correspondent to the Canadian non-governmental organization Réseau Québec-Monde.

Claire-Marie's thesis investigates the transnational ideological transfer between Europe and French Canada during the Second World War. Her focus delves into spaces of memory, cultural confluence, and the role of the global Francosphere from 1920 to 1950. 

Areas of research and teaching interests:

• Social and Cultural History of France (20th and 21st centuries)
• Jewish Canadians in Montréal
• Social and Cultural History of French North Americans and First Nations (Québec, Franco-Ontarians, Franco-Albertans, Franco-Manitobans, Mi’kmaq, Abenaki, Acadians, Detroit, New England, Louisiana)
• Radio as Literature
• Semiotics and Critical Theory
• Transnational and Global Studies

Education:

B.A., University of Michigan - French and Secondary Education (Majors); German and Political Science (Minors)

M.A., Wayne State University - French (20th century)

Ph.D., (ABD) The University of Virginia - Francophone Cultural History (France-Canada)