Rachel Jean-Baptiste
Michelle Mercer and Bruce Golden Family Professor of Feminist and Gender Studies, Professor of History and of African and African American Studies
Bio
Ph.D., Stanford University
M.A., Stanford University
A.B., Bryn Mawr College
Rachel Jean-Baptiste is a historian of 20th and 21st century French-speaking Central and West Africa and the Atlantic world. Her research interests include the histories of: marriage and family law; gender and sexuality; racial thought and multiracial identities; urban history; citizenship. Jean-Baptiste is currently researching the history of women, slavery, and urban history in Haiti and the French-speaking Atlantic world.
Academic Appointments
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Professor, History
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Professor, African and African American Studies
Administrative Appointments
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Faculty Director, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program (2023 - Present)
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Co-President, Coordinating Council for Women in History (2021 - 2024)
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Editorial Board, Gender and History (2022 - Present)
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Board Member, African Studies Association (2022 - Present)
2023-24 Courses
- Gender and Sexuality in African History
AFRICAAM 247, FEMGEN 247, FEMGEN 347, HISTORY 247, HISTORY 347 (Spr) - Graduate Workshop: Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
ARTHIST 499, FEMGEN 299 (Aut) - Introduction to Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
AMSTUD 107, CSRE 108, FEMGEN 101, TAPS 108 (Spr)
All Publications
- Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship Cambridge University Press. 2023
- Conjugal Rights: Marriage, Sexuality, and Urban Life in Colonial Libreville, Gabon New African Histories Ohio University Press. 2014
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"Miss Eurafrica": Men, Women's Sexuality, and Metis Identity in Late Colonial French Africa, 1945-1960
JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SEXUALITY
2011; 20 (3): 568-593
View details for Web of Science ID 000296213900007
View details for PubMedID 22180937
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"A BLACK GIRL SHOULD NOT BE WITH A WHITE MAN" Sex, Race, and African Women's Social and Legal Status in Colonial Gabon, c. 1900-1946
JOURNAL OF WOMENS HISTORY
2010; 22 (2): 56-82
View details for Web of Science ID 000278523800004
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'THESE LAWS SHOULD BE MADE BY US': CUSTOMARY MARRIAGE LAW, CODIFICATION AND POLITICAL AUTHORITY IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY COLONIAL GABON
JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY
2008; 49 (2): 217-240
View details for DOI 10.1017/S0021853708003617
View details for Web of Science ID 000260482500003