is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is co-author of Regionalism and Regional Devolution in Comparative Perspective (Praeger 1987), an analysis of regional decentralization in Western Europe. With grant support from the governments of Canada and Quebec recent publications examine ethnic and class conflict in Quebec and their relationships to language policy, economic interests and support for a sovereign Quebec. Current work addresses the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), aimed at enhancing the economic, political and cultural standing of French language cultural products and services in the English language dominated global economy. Of particular interest is the OIF's insistence on excepting cultural products from the trade regimen of the corporate dominated World Trade Organization, examined in recent articles in Quebec Studies (2002) and the French Review (2005). Rousseau was on sabbatical leave Fall 2005 and Fall 2006 to work on a co-authored book on Francophonie. Rousseau's teaching interests center in Social Inequality, Comparative Political Economy, and French and Canadian Studies.