About Gilles Bousquet
Gilles Bousquet
Gilles Bousquet is dean of the Division of International Studies, vice-provost for globalization, director of the International Institute, special assistant to the chancellor for international engagement, and Pickard-Bascom Professor of French at UW-Madison. He has directed the Center for European Studies and served as chair of the Department of French and Italian.
As dean, he coordinates the university’s internationalization strategy with particular attention to language and area studies, interdisciplinary and global research and educational alliances, and public-private partnerships. He also holds a joint appointment in the Wisconsin School of Business as senior advisor to the Center for International Business Education and Research and to the Initiative for Studies in Technology Entrepreneurship, and is an honorary visiting professor at City University, London.
Bousquet currently chairs the Senior International Officers group in the CIC, as well as the Department of Public Instruction’s International Education Council. He oversees UW–Madison’s participation in the Worldwide Universities Network, a consortium of international research universities, and co-chairs the UW System President’s Task Force on Internationalization and Economic Development.
His interests include French thought and theory, European issues, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century French cultural studies and civilization. Bousquet has published numerous articles, notably on the events of May ’68 in France; culture, language, and identity; interdisciplinary and cross-cultural skills in an international context; and information technology and language pedagogy. He has been invited to speak to academic and public audiences on the role of the land grant university in addressing global challenges and their relevance to local and regional stakeholders.
In recognition of his many contributions to the field of contemporary French cultural and linguistic studies, and the advancement of international collaboration for education and research, the French government awarded Bousquet the Ordre National du Mérite with the rank of Chevalier, and the Palmes Académiques in acknowledgment of distinguished service to higher education.
Gilles Bousquet
Dean and Vice Provost
268 Bascom Hall
500 Lincoln Drive
Madison, WI 53706
phone: (608) 262 9833
email: bousquet@wisc.edu
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