Dr. Carol Bove, professor of French at Westminster College, was one of 21 French professors selected to attend the 2005 Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar on the Holocaust  in Washington, D.C.

 "I found the seminar very useful for preparing the travel seminar and cluster course I plan to teach with Dr. Phylllis Kitzerow [professor of sociology]," Bove said.  "Both courses will include the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism in France.  The travel seminar will focus on the way in which social class, race and gender shape life in the United States and France today, and ends with a two-weeks in France.  The cluster course will focus on minorities in the United States and France."

Bove, who has been with Westminster College since 1984, earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and her master's and Ph.D. from the State University of New York, Binghamton.  Bove is the author of "The Politics of Julia Kristeva," which analyze the politics embodied in Kristeva's French-Bulgarian theory and fiction from 1969-2002.  She has also published several articles and translated two books on French psychoanalytic writing.  She has regularly offered cluster courses at Westminster linking French studies to other disciplines.

 The seminar was sponsored by the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United State Holocaust Memorial Museum, and was endowed by David Hess of Arizona and Edward Hess of Georgia in memory of their parents, Jack and Anita Hess, who believed in the power of education to overcome racial and religious prejudice.

 "This seminar and the lessons of the Holocaust are particularly important today, when anti-Semitism appears once again to be on the rise in France and elsewhere," said Paul Shapiro, director of the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.  "Assisting college faculty who teach this difficult subject is one of the Museum's highest priorities."

 For more information, contact Bove at (724) 946-7303 or e-mail cbove@westminster.edu.

Dr. Carol Bove