• Contributors

Jocelyne Béroard is an ambassador of French Antillean culture and a well-known and well-loved Martinican singer and songwriter who has traveled the world for forty years. Dedicated to healing and uplifting anyone listening to her songs while offering them a piece of happiness, she has also published her memoirs, Loin de lamer (Cherche Midi, 2022). In her book, she reflects on her journey and the saga of her music group, influencing audiences around the world while revealing and preserving their cultural heritage. Béroard was the first woman to gain a gold record in the French Antilles. Béroard was honored as an Officer of the Legion of Honor in 2014 and became an Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2020.

Jennifer Anne Boittin is professor of French, Francophone Studies, History, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Colonial Metropolis: The Urban Grounds of Anti-Imperialism and Feminism in Interwar Paris (University of Nebraska Press, 2010) and of Undesirable: Passionate Mobility and Women’s Defiance of French Colonial Policing, 1919–1952 (University of Chicago Press, 2022) and has published articles in Gender & History and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society, among other journals. Her work focuses on race, gender, class, and sexuality in France, West Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Caribbean, and includes collaboration across disciplines.

Elizabeth Bouldin is associate professor of History at Florida Gulf Coast University. She is the author of Women Prophets and Radical Protestantism in the British Atlantic World, 1640–1730 (Cambridge University Press, 2015), as well as several peer-reviewed articles and a book chapter. Her research has focused on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century religion, gender, and (most recently) the Enlightenment and education. She is currently working on a project entitled “Teachers of the Light: Quaker Women Educators in the Age of Reason.” The book explores how female Friends in Britain and America were central actors in negotiating Enlightenment-era ideas and initiatives through their work as educators.

Kathleen M. Brown is the David Boies Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is also a faculty affiliate of Africana Studies, the History and Sociology of Science, the Center for Research on Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, and the lead faculty historian on the Penn & Slavery Project. Brown’s research focuses on intersectional questions of race, gender, sexuality, and labor in colonial North American, Atlantic, and early US contexts. She is the author of two prize-winning books, Good Wives, Nasty Wenches, and Anxious Patriarchs: Gender, Race and Power in Colonial Virginia (1996) and Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America (2009). Her most recent book, Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition (University of Pennsylvania Press, February 2023), considers how the campaign to end slavery entangled activists in a complex process of undoing longstanding practices and habits of the body central to that institution.

Jacqueline Couti is the Laurence H. Favrot Professor of French Studies at Rice University. Her research and teaching interests delve into the transatlantic and transnational interconnections between cultural productions from continental France and its now former colonies. Her work explores constructions of gender, race, sexuality, identity politics, and nationalism. She is the author of Dangerous Creole Liaisons (Liverpool, 2016) and Sex, Sea, and Self: Sexuality and Nationalism in French Caribbean Discourses 1924–1948 (Liverpool, 2021). Her most recent publications include: a new edition of Le Fruit défendu: Moeurs créoles, Roman martiniquais inédit by René Bonneville (L’Harmattan, 2022) and “Lumina Sophie, Nineteenth-Century Martinique,” in Women Claiming Freedom: Gender, Race, and Liberty in the Americas (Cambridge University Press, 2020).

Bintou Dembélé is an artist who began dancing in 1985 and is now a major figure of hip-hop in France. In 2002, she created the company Rualité, using her first solo “‘Mon appart’ en dit long” to launch her concept of Maroon Dance. She favors interdisciplinary, collaborative projects, that draw together artists and academic researchers. Her notable works include Z. H., S/T/R/A/T/E/S-Quartet, The Syndrome of the Initiated, Rite of Passage || Solo2, G. R. O. O. V. E...

• 贡献者

Jocelyne Béroard是法属安的列斯群岛文化大使，也是一位著名且深受喜爱的马提尼加歌手和词曲作家，四十年来一直游历世界各地。她致力于治愈和振奋任何听她歌曲的人，同时为他们带来幸福，她还出版了回忆录《Loin de lamer》（Cherche Midi，2022）。在她的书中，她回顾了自己的旅程和音乐团体的传奇故事，影响了世界各地的观众，同时揭示和保护了他们的文化遗产。贝罗德是第一位在法属安的列斯群岛获得金唱片的女性。贝罗德于 2014 年荣获荣誉军团勋章，并于 2020 年荣获艺术与文学勋章。

Jennifer Anne Boittin是宾夕法尼亚州立大学法语、法语研究、历史以及妇女、性别和性行为研究教授。她是《殖民地大都市：两次世界大战期间巴黎反帝国主义和女权主义的城市基础》（内布拉斯加大学出版社，2010）和《不可取：法国殖民警察的热情流动和妇女反抗，1919-1952》（芝加哥大学出版社）的作者，2022），并在《性别与历史》和《标志：文化与社会中的女性杂志》等期刊上发表文章。她的工作重点关注法国、西非、东南亚和加勒比地区的种族、性别、阶级和性行为，并包括跨学科合作。

伊丽莎白·博尔丁是佛罗里达海湾海岸大学历史学副教授。她是《英国大西洋世界的女性先知和激进新教，1640-1730 年》 （剑桥大学出版社，2015 年）一书的作者，以及多篇同行评审文章和书籍章节。她的研究重点是十七世纪和十八世纪的宗教、性别以及（最近的）启蒙运动和教育。她目前正在开展一个名为“光明教师：理性时代的贵格会女性教育工作者”的项目。这本书探讨了英国和美国的女性朋友如何通过她们作为教育工作者的工作，成为启蒙时代思想和倡议谈判的核心参与者。

凯瑟琳·M·布朗 ( Kathleen M. Brown) 是宾夕法尼亚大学大卫·博伊斯 (David Boies) 历史学教授，也是该校非洲研究、科学史和社会学、女权主义、酷儿和跨性别研究中心以及非洲研究中心的教员。宾夕法尼亚大学与奴隶制项目的首席历史学家。布朗的研究重点是北美殖民地、大西洋和美国早期背景下的种族、性别、性取向和劳动力等交叉问题。她是两本获奖书籍的作者，《好妻子、坏婆婆和焦虑的族长：弗吉尼亚殖民地的性别、种族和权力》（1996 年）和《污秽的身体：早期美国的清洁》（2009 年）。她的最新著作《废除奴隶制：废奴时代的身体、种族和权利》（宾夕法尼亚大学出版社，2023 年 2 月）考虑了结束奴隶制的运动如何让活动人士陷入一个复杂的过程，以消除对该机构至关重要的身体的长期做法和习惯。

杰奎琳·库蒂 (Jacqueline Couti)是莱斯大学法国研究劳伦斯·法夫罗 (Laurence H. Favrot) 教授。她的研究和教学兴趣深入研究法国大陆及其现在的前殖民地文化产品之间的跨大西洋和跨国相互联系。她的作品探讨了性别、种族、性取向、身份政治和民族主义的建构。她是《危险的克里奥尔关系》（利物浦，2016 年）和《性、海洋和自我：1924-1948 年法国加勒比海话语中的性与民族主义》（利物浦，2021 年）的作者。她最近的出版物包括：新版Le Fruit défendu: Moeurs créoles, Roman martiniquais inédit by René Bonneville (L'Harmattan, 2022) 和《Lumina Sophie, Nineteenth-Century Martinique》，女性主张自由：美洲的性别、种族和自由（剑桥大学出版社，2020 年）。

Bintou Dembélé是一位艺术家，1985 年开始跳舞，现在是法国嘻哈界的重要人物。2002年，她创建了Rualité公司，用她的第一首独奏歌曲“'Mon appart' en dit long”推出了Maroon Dance的概念。她喜欢将艺术家和学术研究人员聚集在一起的跨学科合作项目。她的著名作品包括 ZH、S/T/R/A/T/E/S 四重奏、入门综合症、成年仪式 || 独奏2、节奏..