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Roxanne Panchasi is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Born in Toronto and raised in Montreal, she completed her BA in History at Concordia University before pursuing her PhD at Rutgers University, where she spent three years in Paris from 1996-1999. She joined SFU's faculty in 2001 and completed her doctoral dissertation in 2002.
Dr. Panchasi's research focuses on French cultural history, particularly examining representations of the future and futuristic elements in interwar France, as detailed in her book Future Tense: The Culture of Anticipation in France Between the Wars (Cornell University Press, 2009). Her more recent work investigates the cultural politics of France's nuclear weapons program, with special attention to France's nuclear testing in Algeria and French Polynesia from the 1960s through the 1990s. She also has published on experimental and documentary film, including works by Peter Watkins and Louis Malle.
Dr. Panchasi is the founding host of New Books in French Studies, a podcast channel on the New Books Network launched in 2013. Her recent publications demonstrate a consistent engagement with nuclear legacies, colonial histories, and contemporary cultural representations. Her scholarly trajectory shows a movement from early work on handwriting analysis in 19th-century France and rehabilitation of wounded soldiers after WWI toward more explicitly political investigations of nuclear imperialism and environmental justice.
Selected Awards:
- Visiting International Fellowship, Society for French Studies, 2023
- SFU Scholarly Digitization Fund Grant, 2019
- Cormack Teaching Award, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, 2014
- SSHRC Research Grant for 'Atomic Clouds in Tricolour,' 2013-2015
Dr. Panchasi teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on modern Europe, modern France, and historical methods. She was awarded a Teaching Learning Development Grant in 2012 for her research project 'Excavating the Present in the History Classroom,' focused on student engagement with current events. She is currently accepting new graduate students and specializes in supervising work on modern European history, French history, cultural history, and colonial/postcolonial history.
