As of July 1, 2024, the Centre for the Study of France and the Francophone World (CEFMF) has a new director, Tommaso Pavone.

Tommaso is Assistant Professor of European Politics, Associate Graduate Faculty in the Centre for European and Eurasian Studies (CEES), and Visiting Researcher at the ARENA Centre for European Studies at the University of Oslo. His research traces how interactions between lawyers, courts, and policymakers impact political development, social change, and the rule of law in Europe. His published articles have won several awards from the French Politics group of the American Political Science Association (APSA), and his first book – The Ghostwriters (Cambridge University Press, 2022) – has won seven book awards from the European Union Studies Association (EUSA), the Law and Society Association (LSA), the American Society of International Law (ASIL), and APSA. Pavone is the 2024 recipient of the Carolina de Miguel Moyer Young Scholar Award from the Council for European Studies (CES), which recognizes the scholar under age forty “who is judged to have made (through a body of publications) the most significant contribution to the interdisciplinary study of Europe.” He was born in Italy and has lived and conducted fieldwork in France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, and Norway. He holds a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University. We look forward to the new initiatives that Tommaso will mount in this role. Welcome, Tom! The director’s term is 3 years.