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Laura Auricchio

Laura Auricchio is a specialist in eighteenth-century French history and art who received her undergraduate degree from Harvard and her PhD from Columbia University. Auricchio has been the recipient of major fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Whiting Foundation, and Columbia University. She is currently the Dean of the School of Undergraduate Studies at The New School for Public Engagement. She lives in New York with her husband.

Books

Laura Auricchio’s The Marquis Shortlisted for American Library in Paris Book Award

Congratulations to Laura Auricchio, whose book The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered has been shortlisted for the 2015 American Library in Paris Book Award. The annual prize honors the most distinguished fiction or nonfiction book of the year about France or the French-American encounter.

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