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College of Arts & Sciences
Dr. Peter French
Dr. Peter French is the Associate Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairs. He brings to the USF Sarasota-Manatee regional campus more than three and a half decades of experience in higher education. He has been a teaching faculty member, a vice-president for academic affairs twice, a provost, a college trustee and a college president. As the chief academic officer of the Sarasota/Manatee campus he seeks to share the insights gathered over a long time to strengthen the academic programs and support the needs of a growing faculty.
Dr. French has a B.A. in History from Moravian College, an M.A. in International Relations from Yale University and a Ph.D. in International Relations from Yale University.
Paralleling Dr. French’s long career in higher education has been extensive interest in international relations with a particular focus on Africa. Over a twenty-period Dr. French made sixteen field trips to east Africa where he completed his doctoral dissertation research on Kenyan politics, was a civil servant in the East African Common Services Organization and developed studies programs for American students in the form of a Nairobi Semester program headquartered at St. Lawrence University. As a culminating assignment for his African days, Dr. French was appointed by the President of Kenya to work with a group of senior Kenyan academics to make recommendations on the second university for the nation. Moi University, named in honor of the President, opened in 1985.
Dr. French also was instrumental in developing an exchange program between Mercy College in New York and the Universitatis Internationalis Collucio Salutati in Pescia, Italy. For his efforts he was recognized by the faculty of jurisprudence at the University of Pisa in the presentation of the Galileo Medal, the highest award the University may bestow without a special act of the Italian National Assembly.
Dr. French’s current
writing interests are completion of a book on race relations and completion of a
biography of an African politician that serves to describe the transition of
Kenya from a colony to independence
in the 1960’s and 70’s.
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