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School of American and Global Studies

Marie-Pierre Baggett

Marie-Pierre Baggett

Title

Professor

Office Building

Lincoln Hall

Office

319

Mailing Address

Lincoln Hall 319
School of American & Global Studies-Box 2212
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007

Education

  • Ph.D. | University of California, Irvine
  • M.A. | University of California, Irvine
  • B.A. licence | Université de Clermont-Ferrand, France

Academic Interests

  • French and Francophone studies, emphasis on contemporary France and North-Africa
  • Visual media, television and cinema with a focus on documentary filmmaking
  • Cultural studies, memory studies
  • Immigration, memorial spaces, national identity
  • Gender and war

Academic Responsibilities

  • Culture, cinema and literature from the French speaking world
  • French language and culture

Committees and Professional Memberships

  • College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences T&P Committee (2018-2021; 2023-present)
  • National Endowment for the Humanities reviewer (2021)
  • Research and Scholarship Committee (2016-2021: chair 2020-2021, vice-chair 2019-2020)
  • Undergraduate Experience Committee (2010-2016; chair 2012-2014, vice-chair 2010-2012)

Awards and Honors

  • 2018 Phi Kappa Phi Webster Faculty Lecture Award
  • 2014; 2008 South Dakota World Language Association, Teacher of the Year Award
  • 2013 South Dakota State University Faculty Award for Global Engagement for Excellence in Study Abroad Leadership
  • 2012 Service-Learning Outstanding Community Partner Award for WWII veterans for their work for French 492 "Perspectives on the Nazi Occupation"
  • 2010 Central States Conference All Star Award
  • 2008 Best of South Dakota Presentation, South Dakota World Language Association
  • 2006 F.O. Butler Foundation, Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching

Grants

  • 2017; 2014 South Dakota State University Foundation, Women and Giving Award
  • 2017; 2014 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute
  • 2015 South Dakota State University, Academic and Scholarly Excellence Funds, Humanities and the Arts
  • 2013 South Dakota State University Mark of Academic Excellence Award for Global Perspective (co-author and recipient)
  • 2012; 2011 South Dakota State University Foundation, Women and Giving Grant Award
  • 2010 South Dakota State University Scholarly Excellence Research Fund
  • 2008 South Dakota State University New Idea Start Up Funds, (PI)

Areas of Research

Her research interest lies in visual media and the extreme contemporary period (post-1980) in France. Specifically, her research centers on the intersection of immigration, images and politics in France, and more broadly on the role of ethnic and gender minorities in shaping and challenging contemporary definitions of nationhood. She has published on representations of Algerian immigration in the work of Soualem, Bensmaïl, Leuvrey and Oujdi. More recently, she has focused her scholarship on memory and public spaces in documentary filmmaking.

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