ProvostThe American University of Paris
Scott Sprenger is the Provost of The American University of Paris. His graduate degrees in French Studies are from Johns Hopkins University and Emory, and he is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholar award in Brussels/Paris in 2009 and an Andrew W. Mellon post doc at UCLA in 1999-01.
Before joining AUP, he was an associate dean in the College of Humanities at Brigham Young University. His administrative work covered a broad range of areas, such as faculty development, tenure and promotions, program assessment of study abroad and internships, international program oversight, college and university advising, international business language, and more. He directed the European Studies program from 2006-09 and has been on the executive committee of a Title VI Center for the Study of Europe from 2003 to the present. His main publications are on modern European literature and culture and he has recently taught interdisciplinary courses such as The Idea of Europe, European Anti-Americanism and Gothic Marriage.
While at BYU, Scott Sprenger’s main assignment was to create and develop a program called Humanities+ whose aim was to bridge the humanities and liberal arts with global career opportunity. Humanities+ has been acclaimed in the national press and by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences as one of the most innovative initiatives in the liberal arts in the United States. He has also actively promoted the humanities and liberal arts, with Congress via the Humanities Alliance Conference, on the radio and in the Chronicle of Higher Ed