Flore Zéphir - Department of Romance Language & Literatures

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Flore Zéphir Professor of French Chair
Undergraduate Programs Graduate Programs Study Abroad Courses People Afro-Romance Institute Info for Faculty & Instructors News & Events Links Home	<< back to Faculty Ph.D., Indiana University-Bloomington, 1990 Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Foreign Language Education, Ethnic and Immigrant Studies, Creole Studies Professor Zéphir, a native of Haiti, came to the United States in 1975. She attended Hunter College of the City University of New York, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in French and Education in 1980. The following year she went to Indiana University-Bloomington, and earned two Masters of Arts degree in 1983, and a Ph.D. in French Linguistics in 1990. Professor Zéphir has been teaching at the University of Missouri-Columbia (MU) since 1988 in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. She is currently professor of French, director of undergraduate studies, coordinator of the Master’s program in foreign language teaching, and chair of the Linguistics program. She is the recipient of several awards at MU. In 1995, she received a Kemper award for excellence in teaching; in 2003, an award for excellence in advising; and in 2004, a Faculty-Alumni award. Professor Zéphir teaches French language classes at all levels, as well as courses in foreign language teaching methodologies, French linguistics, bilingualism and multiculturalism, and minority and Creole languages. Her research interests include foreign language education, bilingual education, Creole studies, sociolinguistics, and ethnic and immigrant studies with a particular focus on the Haitian diaspora in the United States. She is a regular presenter at the various foreign language teaching conferences, as well as linguistics meetings. Given her expertise in the areas of bilingual, multicultural, and foreign language education, as well as immigrant studies, Professor Zéphir is a well sought-after speaker, invited to conduct workshops and give presentations on these topics. For example, in the summer of 2001, she taught a segment on French creoles, as part of a National Endowment for the Humanities' Summer Institute on the African Diaspora held at MU. Her numerous articles and review essays have appeared in the French Review, Foreign Language Annals, Modern Language Journal, Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, and Afro-Hispanic Review, among other professional journals. In 1999, she received an award from the French Institute of Washington for an article published in the French Review. Her first book, Haitian Immigrants in Black America: A Sociological and Sociolinguistic Portrait was published in 1996 by Bergin and Garvey; her second, Trends in Ethnic Identification Among Second-Generation Haitian Immigrants in New York City, was released in summer 2001 also by Bergin and Garvey; and her third, The Haitian Americans, was published in August 2004 by Greenwood Press as part of its New Americans series. She also serves as book review editor for the Journal of Haitian Studies. In addition to receiving scholarly attention, Professor Zéphir’s work on Haitian immigrants in the United States has generated a great deal of interest on the part of the media. For example, in 2002, a reporter from the Washington Post conducted a phone interview with her. Excerpts of that interview appeared in an article, “A Diverse—and Divided—Black Community,” published in the Sunday, February 24, 2002 issue of that paper. Subsequently, she was quoted in an article titled “Black America Transformed: Immigration reshapes a once-monolithic community,” published in the International Herald Tribune in Paris (Monday, February 25, 2002). She has also been featured in the diasporic newspaper, the Haitian Times, which published a review of her book on the second-generation Haitian immigrants (January 1-7, 2003 issue, p.2). Additionally, she appeared on a number of radio programs, including Perspectives Haitiennes, and the Caribbean segment of Voice of America. She also contributed a monthly column to the Boston Haitian Reporter from April 2004 through March 2005.	Contact: 121 Arts & Science Building 573-882-5048 zephirf@missouri.edu cv in Word The Haitian Americans Haitian Immigrants in Black America: A Sociological and Sociolinguistic Portrait Trends in Ethnic Identification Among Second-Generation Haitian Immigrants in New York City
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