Comparative Patriarchy and American Institutions: The Language, Culture, and Politics of Liberalism

Francis Feeley is a member of the faculty at The University of Grenoble3 where he has taught American Studies since 2000. He is also Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of American Institutions and Social Movements [CEIMSA], the web site of which is temporarily located on The University of California-San Diego server: http://dimension.ucsd.edu/CEIMSA-IN-EXILE/. Professor Feeley has taught European and U.S. History for over 30 years at institutions of higher education in the United States, France, and the in Former Soviet Union, where he taught as a Fulbright Scholar in 1993-94. He has published ten books and more than two dozen articles on European and American social history. He is a member of the of the professional association, Historians Against War, as well as the Association Francaise d'Etudes Americaines, and the Societe des Anglicistes de l'Enseignement Superieur. He is presently member of the research laboratory, CREA located at the Universite de Paris Ouest-Nanterre, where he is directing the theses of eleven Ph.D. students in American Studies. Professor Feeley has served on the Board of Directors of the International Endowment for Democracy [http://www.iefd.org] in New York City since its inception in 2005.