Dr. Alain-Philippe Durand is the Dorrance Dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona. 

Dean Durand’s research interests include French and Brazilian literatures and cultures, French Cinema, Hip-Hop studies, and the promotion of the Humanities disciplines in the professions. He is the author and editor of six books and many chapters and articles, including The Entrepreneurial Humanities. The Crucial Role of the Humanities in enterprise and the Economy (co-edited with Christine Henseler, Routledge, 2023), and “Humanities = Jobs. The Tactics of Contrarian Entrepreneurial Humanities” (co-authored with Ken S. McAllister, ADE/ADFL Bulletin, 2022).

 The French Government awarded Durand the Palmes Académiques. The University of Arizona awarded Durand the Five Star Faculty Award, the Richard Ruiz Diversity Leadership Faculty Award, and the African American Community Council’s Distinguished Faculty Award. The French publication France-Amérique named him among its list of fifty French talents living in the United States.