Participant Info
- First Name
- Rachel
- Last Name
- Gillett
- Country
- Netherlands
- State
- r.a.gillett@uu.nl
- Affiliation
- Utrecht University
- Website URL
- https://www.uu.nl/staff/RAGillett/0
- Keywords
- Black Atlantic, France, Popular Culture, French Empire, Race in France, Black Diaspora In Europe, Gender, Sports and Protest
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- For time sensitive inquiries please direct message me on Twitter.
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Rachel Gillett is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University, teaching Modern Europe and Empire. Recent courses she taught examined race and representation in France, youth protest in Europe in 1968, cultures of Empire, and fundamentalisms. Her research focuses on race in France, popular culture, and on the black Atlantic from a French perspective. She also works on the notion of cosmopolitanism in popular culture and on rugby and race relations in a post-colonial context. Her current book, under contract with OUP, is entitled Begin the Biguine: Race and Popular Music in Interwar Paris. After graduating from Northeastern University with a PhD in World History, she taught and served as the Assistant Director for Undergraduate Studies in the History and Literature Concentration at Harvard University. She received her undergraduate degree, a Bachelor of Arts with Honors in English and honors in History, from the University of Otago, New Zealand. She balances her love of research and teaching with an active extra-curricular pursuit of music and rugby.
- Recent Publications
Articles – Scholarly publications
Gillett, R.A. (2013). “Jazz Women, Gender Politics, and the Francophone Atlantic”. Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, 10 (1).Gillett, R.A. (2010). Jazz and the Evolution of Black American Cosmopolitanism in Interwar Paris. Journal of World History, 21 (3).Book reviews – Scholarly publicationsGillett, R.A. (2015). Networks in Tropical Medicine: Internationalism, Colonialism, and the Rise of a Medical Specialty, 1890-1930 Deborah Joy, Neill. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. The Journal of American CultureGillett, R.A. (2014). Review of Black Soundscapes, White Stages, by Edwin Hill. H-France ReviewGillett, R.A. (2013). A Review of “Black France/France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness”. History: Reviews of New BooksGillett, R.A. (2006). Music of the Great Depression. Journal of Popular CultureConference – Scholarly publicationsHung, J.B. (08.11.2017) Constructing America | Defining Europe Utrecht (08.11.2017 – 10.11.2017)
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- Dr. Rachel Gillett
- Country Focus
- France, USA
- Expertise by Geography
- France, New Zealand, North America
- Expertise by Chronology
- Modern, 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Gender, Women, World War I
