List of foreign recipients of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Award
Ordre des Palmes Académiques
Officier of the Order
Awarded for
Distinguished contributions to education or culture
Presented by
France
Commandeur
Officier
Chevalier
The Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Order of Academic Palms) is an order of knighthood of France for academics and cultural and educational figures. The early Palmes académiques was instituted on 17 March 1808 and was only awarded to teachers or professors. In 1850 the decoration was divided into two known classes:[1]
Officier de l'Instruction Publique (Golden Palms)
Officier d'Académie (Silver Palms)
Since 1955 the Ordre des palmes académiques has comprised three grades:
Commandeur (Commander) — medallion worn on necklet
Officier (Officer) — medallion worn on ribbon with rosette on left breast
Chevalier (Knight) – medallion worn on ribbon on left breast
In 1866, the scope of the award was widened to include major contributions to French national education and culture made by anyone, including foreigners. It was also made available to any French expatriates making major contributions to the expansion of French culture throughout the world.
His Honour Judge Warren C Fagan, QC (2006), former president of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal of Victoria, former president de L'alliance Francaise de Melbourne, chevalier de Légion d'Honneur[3]
Chevalier
Edward Duyker (2000), Australian historian of French voyages to the Indian Ocean and Pacific in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Jane Zemiro (2000), Australian academic and author.
Gretchen Bennett (2002), Australian teacher of the French language.
Jason McKenzie (2023), entrepreneur, former president of Alliance Française de Brisbane, former board director of the Alliance Française French Film Festival[4]
Neelima A. Raddi (1992), professor Fergusson College, Pune; translator; co-author of En Échanges ( first Indian textbook for French); student of Prof. Y.K. Sohoni.
Govindan Rangarajan (2006), professor, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science (IISc).[18]
Basabi Pal (2016), Associate Professor of French in West Bengal Education Service at Chandernagore College (Formerly College Dupleix), West Bengal.
Nalini J.Thampi (2022), Professor of the Department of French at Pondicherry Central University, Puducherry and English and Foreign Language University, Hyderabad.
Mahmud Syaltout, Indonesian lecturer-researcher on Western Europe Comparative Politics, Geopolitics, Cyberspace and Digital Diplomacy and Methodology of International Relations and Economic Intelligence at the University of Indonesia and Paramadina Graduate School of Diplomacy. [20] He is also an activist of Gerakan Pemuda Ansor and LAKPESDAM Nahdlatul Ulama and currently working as a member of experts team of Ministry of Religious Affairs, H.E. Yaqut Cholil Qoumas. [21] In 2020, Syaltout, a French political expert at the University of Indonesia, dared to speak bluntly about Macron not being anti-Islam. [22] In 2017, on the orders of Yaqut Cholil Qoumas, Chairperson of Ansor Youth Movement, Syaltout led research on the massacre of the Rohingya ethnic group in Rakhine State, Myanmar, explaining that the conflict was a geopolitical conflict over natural resources, not a religious conflict and not just a violation of human rights, and at the same time offered the best scenarios for resolving the conflict based on the Game Theory approach. [23] Also in 2017, Mahmud Syaltout together with Muhammad Zulkarnain and Alfon Satria Harbi, representing ANP-INSIGHT, a Business and Economic Intelligence company, won an academic poster competition in the field of Mixed-Methods at the 2017 MQIC Conference organized by MAXQDA in Berlin, Germany. [24]
Ahmad Kamyabi Mask, professor of Fine Arts in the University of Tehran during the 1980s and 1990s, writer, translator, publisher and scholar of French avant-garde theatre, influential in the study of Eugène Ionesco and Samuel Beckett.
Javad Tabatabai, thinker and historian of Iranian modernity.
Siamak Yassemi, professor of Mathematics at the University of Tehran.
Ireland
Officier
Henri O'Kelly, organist, choir director, music teacher
Janie McCarthy, resistance worker during World War II in Paris, and language teacher
Alec Goldsmith (2002), Polish-born RAF pilot and French language teacher who settled in New Zealand in 1961, for 22 years of organising exchanges with New Caledonian students.[32]
John Dunmore (1986), New Zealand academic, author on French history in the Pacific and long-time president of the New Zealand Federation des Alliances Francaises.[40][41]
Elizabeth Goulding (1991), New Zealand academic for her services to French language and culture[34]
Glynnis Cropp (2011), New Zealand academic, committee member of the Federation of the Alliances Francaises in New Zealand since 1981. Appointed Chevalier in 1991.[42]
Chevalier since 1955 and Officier d'Académie (Silver Palms) before 1955
James McRoberts Geddis (1926), author, journalist and editor of New Zealand Free Lance.[46]
M. M. Ifwersen (1934), president of the Mercantile Auxiliary Club and host of French warship visits to Auckland.[39][47]
Frederick Fisher Miles (1930s), New Zealand academic, professor of mathematics at Victoria University, Wellington, and president of the Cercle Française 1929–35.[48]
Allwyn Charles Keys, professor emeritus of French and Romance Philology at Auckland University and president of the Auckland French Club from 1943 to 1968.[49]
Graham Halligan (1984), New Zealand academic for "services to French language and culture".[34]
Ashley Day (1989), founded New Zealand National Association of French Teachers in 1986 and represented New Zealand at the World Congress of French Teachers in 1987.[51]
Jacqueline Ferry (1990), senior lecturer in the French Department of the School of European Languages and Literature at Victoria University of Wellington.[34]
Tony Angelo (2003), Victoria University Law School professor with a long involvement at the Université de la Polynésie française (UPF).[52]
Barbara Dineen (2005), teacher at Columba College, Dunedin for "services to French language and culture" over a long period of time.[53]
Denis Fouhy (2005), Rotorua French teacher and organiser of exchanges with the College Jean Marrotti in Nouméa, New Caledonia.[54]
Jean Anderson (2006), chair of the French Department at Victoria University of Wellington.[55]
Marie Brown (2006), teacher of French and French literature from 1977 and especially president of the Alliances Francaises of Wellington from 2002 to 2004.[56]
Brian McKay (2006), former head of the University of Auckland's French department and current vice-president of the Alliance Française d'Auckland.
Rosemary Arnoux (2007), Auckland University senior lecturer European Languages and Literature.[57]
Peter Tremewan (2007), New Zealand academic at Canterbury University for "services to French language and culture".[58]
Danielle Fillion (2010), president of the Waiheke French Club, in recognition of her efforts in promoting French culture.[59]
Stephanie Barnett (2010), a highly valued member of the community of French language teachers in New Zealand since 1981.[60]
Warren Henderson (2019) for services rendered to French culture.[61]
Andrejka Lorenčak (2021), professor of the First High School in Celje
Miha Pintarič (2007), Prof. of French Lit at the Fac. of Arts (Univ. of Lj.); an author; a poet; Vice-Dean for research and int. relations; retired as of Jan '23.
South Africa
Officier
Marie-Joséphine Whitaker (1985), Professor, University of the Witwatersrand, co-founder of the Association of French Studies of Southern Africa
Somboon Pichayapaiboon (1979), Science Educator and Chemistry Professor, Ministry of Education. A founder of Technical Chemistry program for Vocational Education of Thailand.[75]
Officier
Associate Professor Dr. Kittichai Triratanasirichai (2018), President of Khon Kaen University, Thailand.
Sean Hand (2004), Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Europe), University of Warwick
Dr. Hall Kathleen Mary, Treasurer, Alliance Française, Librarian/Treasurer, Oxford & District Esperanto Society, Senior lecturer Renaissance French
Rosalyn Higgins (1988), professor of International Law and president of the International Court of Justice.
Marian Hobson (1997), professor of French at Queen Mary, University of London
Gregory B. Lee (2010), British academic, author, broadcaster and professor of Chinese and Transcultural Studies at the University of Lyon (Jean Moulin)
John McManners (1991), Anglican clergyman and religious historian specialising in the history of the Church and other aspects of religious life in 18th-century France.[88]
Huw Morris (2011), academic registrar, Swansea University
Thomas E. Lovejoy, conservationist, ecologist, University Professor at George Mason University
Philip Werner Amram, lawyer and legal scholar, president of La Fondation de l'Ecole Francaise Internationale and legal adviser to the French Embassy.[90]
Lee Bradley, (1996), emeritus assistant professor (French) at Valdosta State University (1967–1998, 2000–2012), Valdosta, GA; executive director of the Southern Conference on Language Teaching (1988–1999).[97]
Elizabeth Chaponot, Ph.D. (2009) Excellence in French Education, Head of School, Lycee International de Los Angeles
Herbert Clemone De Ley Jr, professor of French at the University of Illinois.
Olga Duhl (2015) Oliver Edwin Williams Professor of Languages, founder and Co-Chair of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Early-Modern Studies Program at Lafayette College, United States. An associate member of the Research Center, Textes et Cultures, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, she is on the Editorial Board of the scholarly journal, Le Moyen français as its US correspondent, a Vice-President of the International Association for Middle French Studies, and a reviewer for Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme, and Literature and Theology.
Richard Guidry (1995), Cajun cultural activist and educator who worked to save the French language in Louisiana.
James F. Jones, preceptor in the Department of French and Romance Philology at Columbia University, and chair of the Department of Foreign Languages at Woodward Academy in Atlanta.
Dorothy Donald (1966), professor of Spanish and French at Monmouth College (Illinois) for more than 40 years of service as a teacher of French.
Benjamin Lizotte (2022), The Paul M. Jourcin Chair of French Studies, Saint John's High School, Shrewsbury, MA.
Joseph Lussier (1934), Québécois-American journalist, editor, and publisher who published La Justice, a French-language weekly in Holyoke, Massachusetts
Dr. Paul D. Onffroy (1967), professor of foreign languages at Chico State College, Lieutenant Colonel US Army and Program Director USIS in Marrakech, Morocco.[100]
Jean Mirvil (2009), innovative principal of Public School 73 located in the Bronx, NYC, put in place a dual immersion French English program to address the needs of the Francophone population.
Shimon Waronker (2009), headmaster of The New American Academy, PS 770, an innovative new public school in Brooklyn, New York.
Randall E. Westgren (2007), professor of agribusiness and entrepreneurship at the University of Illinois.
Cathy Yandell (2019), W.I. and Hulda F. Daniell Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Carleton College.
Heather A. West (2015), Associate Professor of French, Department of World Languages and Culture, Samford University. [102]
Dr. Elizabeth W. Poe (2016), professor of French medieval literature at Tulane University, New Orleans, LA.
Moira Judas Smith (2019), beloved French teacher and Wilson "Woody" Sims, Sr. Endowed Chair of World Languages at The Webb School, Bell Buckle, TN. Her award was granted to her posthumously and was received by her daughter, Caroline Smith Pryor.[103]
Dr. Jolene Vos-Camy (2021), professor of French at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, MI.[104]
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