Fulbright Experience:
Fulbright U.S. Scholar, France, 2022-2023

About Dr. Fette:

An interdisciplinary historian of modern French society, Julie Fette’s research has a strong focus on gender and race. Her first book, Exclusions (Cornell, 2012), examines middle-class discrimination in French society in the professions of law and medicine between 1920 and 1945. In 2021, she co-authored a new edition of Les Français, the beloved and widely-taught French civilization textbook for undergraduates. Fette also published Gender by the Book (Routledge, 2025), which investigates representations of gender in 21st-century French children’s literature.

Fette has won a number of grants including a Fulbright fellowship. Her free massive open online course, “America Through Foreign Eyes” (Coursera) has enrolled over 20,000 students. She was knighted by the French government as Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes académiques.

At Rice, Fette is a faculty affiliate of the Center for the Study of Women, Gender and Sexuality, of the Program in Politics, Law and Social Thought, and of the Program in Media Studies.