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First Name
Jacqueline
Last Name
Allain
Country
United States
State
NY
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Website URL
https://www.jacquelineallain.com
Keywords
slavery, emancipation, Atlantic World, education, gender studies
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PhD
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Recent Publications

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“The Well-Being of Others: Durham’s Cooperative School for Pregnant Girls.” The North Carolina Historical Review 103 (2026): 65-89.

Meghan Woolley and Jacqueline Allain, “Constructing a Writing Center Archive: Insights from Consultant Oral Histories.” The Peer Review 10 (2025).

“‘Make Me Live Long Enough’: Mapping Social Reproduction in the French Antilles, 1830–1900.” Atlantic Studies 22 (2025): 439–63.

“The Historiography of Social Reproduction and Reproductive Labor.” History Compass 22 (2024): 1-13.

“Maria Griffin, et al: Slavery’s Intimate World.” Journal of Women’s History 34 (2022): 15-35.

“‘They are Quiet Women Now’: Hair Cropping, British Imperial Governance, and the Gendered Body in the Archive.” Slavery & Abolition 41(2020): 772-794.

 

Book Chapters & Invited Publications

Jeremy C. Young and Jacqueline Allain, “State-Level Educational Censorship Legislation Affecting Colleges and Universities,” in Censorship and Self–Censorship in History Education: A Comparative Approach to Backsliding Democracies, edited by Ruben Zeeman. Vienna: Central European Press, 2026.

Jeremy C. Young and Jacqueline Allain, “Why Americans Must Speak Up to Defend University Autonomy.” In Banning Books in America: Not A How-To, edited by Samuel Cohen. New York: Bloomsbury, 2026.

“Teaching and Learning Guide for: ‘The Historiography of Social Reproduction and Reproductive Labor,’” History Compass 22 (2024): 1-7.

Jeremy C. Young, Neijma Celestine-Donnor, and Jacqueline Allain, “Diversity and Free Expression in Higher Education,” Metropolitan Universities 35 (2024).

“Enslavement and the Transatlantic Slave Trade through Court Martial Proceedings” and “How to Read Against the Grain Using Colonial Court Records,” in AM Research Methods: Interrogating Colonial Documents and Narratives (Marlborough: AM, 2024).

“Afro-French Antillean Studies.” In Routledge Handbook of Afro-Latin American Studies, edited by Bernd Reiter and John Antón Sánchez. London: Routledge, 2022.

Book Reviews

Review of Mitchell, Robin, Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France. In Women’s History Review 30 (2021): 522-524.

Review of Helg, Aline, Slave No More: Self-Liberation Before Abolitionism in the Americas. In Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 60 (2019): 347-349.

Review of Roper, L. H., ed., The Torrid Zone: Caribbean Colonization and Cultural Interaction in the Long Seventeenth Century. H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews. 2018.

 

 

Media Coverage
Country Focus
Expertise by Geography
Atlantic, Caribbean
Expertise by Chronology
19th century, Modern
Expertise by Topic
Children & Youth, Colonialism, Emancipation, Family, Gender, Race, Sexuality, Slavery, Women