Dauphine Sloan is Senior Professor of Practice and Undergraduate Advisor at the Department of Political Science, Tulane University, where she teaches International Development. She was previously Director of the Payson Graduate Program in Global Development at Tulane Law School.

She received her Doctorate in Sociology and her Masters in Applied Modern Languages (English/Russian) from the University of Paris, as well as a post-graduate degree (DEA) in Soviet and East European Studies from Sciences Po Paris. At Tulane, Dr. Sloan has been teaching a number of courses such as: Introduction to International Development, International Political and Economic Relations, International Development Theories and Strategies since 1945, Migrants, Refugees and Development, Sustainable Humanitarianism, and Development in the Francophone World.

Before her appointment as International Development full-time faculty, Dr. Sloan was the Director of the French Language Program and Professor of Practice at the Department of French and Italian at Tulane, where she taught courses on French society, institutions, and media, as well as French language.