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Rachel Jean-Baptiste
Michelle Mercer and Bruce Golden Professor of Feminist and Gender Studies
Professor of African and African American Studies
Professor of History
Project Lead, Senegal Liberations Project
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.