Marie-Pierre ULLOA

 

Marie-Pierre Ulloa is the Associate Director for Academic Programming and Student Outreach for the Taube Center for Jewish Studies.

She is also a lecturer in the French Department, teaching Francophone and North African Cinema and Literature.

She holds a BA in History from the University of La Sorbonne, a MA in History and Political Science and an Advanced Post-Graduate Diploma in History (summa cum laude) from Sciences Po in Paris, where she wrote her dissertation on intellectual dissidence from World War II to post-Algerian War through the case study of French existentialist philosopher Francis Jeanson. She has an ongoing research project on the Maghrebi Diaspora in California.

Research interests

• French Colonialism in the Maghreb
• Decolonization and Politics of Memory
• History of Immigration and Diaspora
• History and Culture of Sephardic Jews
• Francophone world
  
• North-African history
  
• Oral history

Publications

Books

• Francis Jeanson, a Dissident Intellectual from the French Resistance to the Algerian War, based on extensive new archival materials, published by Stanford University Press in 2008.

Articles

• Les intellectuels et la guerre d'Algérie: entre Sartre et Mounier, in Esprit, March 2012
• Désaccords sur les stratégies anticoloniales: Francis Jeanson et Esprit in Esprit, March 2012
• Francis Jeanson, in Le Maitron, dictionnaire biographique : mouvement ouvrier, mouvement social, de 1940 à 1968 (Gh-Je), tome VI. Dir. Claude Pennetier. Editions de l'Atelier, 462 p., 2010.
  
• Francis Jeanson et les porteurs de valises - une memoire en images, des images en memoire
  In Espion, Resistant, Terroriste : figures cinematographiques, textes reunis par Robert Belot et Laurent Heyberger, Cahiers de Recits, revue du laboratoire RECITS, Universite de technologie de Belfort-Montbeliard, UTBM (2009)
• Memory and Continuity: the Resistance, the Algerian War and the Jeanson Network
  in Alec G. Hargreaves, ed. Memory, Empire, and Postcolonialism: Legacies of French Colonialism. After the Empire: The Francophone World and Postcolonial France.
  Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, (2005)
• La France à Stanford: 51ème Congrès de la Society for French Historical Studies
  In Vingtième Siècle, revue d'histoire, numéro 87, juillet/septembre (2005)

Grants

• Research Grant, Mediterranean Studies Forum, Stanford, 2011-2013
• Research Grant, Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford, 2011-2013
• Translation Grant, French Ministry of Culture - Centre National du Livre, 2008
• Hemingway Grant, French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States, 2007

Awards

• Award of Excellence for recognition of significant contribution to the diffusion of knowledge of Algerian history and culture conferred by the Algerian-American Association of Northern California (2005)
• Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de la République Francaise (2013)

Professional Services

• Referee for Stanford University Press, and for La Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée
• Fellowship Selection Committees for the Humanities Center (2009-2012), the Haas Center, and the Taube Center for Jewish Studies (2012-)
  

Stanford University Service

• Assistant Director, French Film Festival, "From Script to Screen: Conversation on Contemporary French Cinema" (2005-2006)
• Coordinator, French Culture Workshop (2005-2006)
• Associate Director, Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies (2006-2008)
• Associate Director, Mediterranean Studies Forum (2006-2008)
• Senior Executive Officer, International Programs, Humanities Center (2009-2012)
• Associate Director for Academic Programming, Taube Center for Jewish Studies (2012-)
  

Affiliations

• French and Italian Department, Stanford University
• Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Cadis, Paris
  
• Mediterranean Studies Forum, Stanford University
• Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University
• Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University
  

Collaborative Projects

• Eurogolfe Forum, Europe, the Gulf and the Mediterrenean. Reviving Common Legacies, Mapping our New Region, Venice, Italy (2008)
• Mediterranean Film Festival, Stanford University (2008)
• Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk at Stanford, Stanford University (2007)
• Sephardi Studies Project, Stanford University (2006-2007)
• French Film Festival, Stanford University (2005, 2006)
• Arab Film Festival, San Francisco (2004, 2005)