Rachel Jean-Baptiste, the Michelle Mercer and Bruce Golden Family Professor of Feminist and Gender Studies and Professor of History and of African and African American Studies, has been awarded the 2024 David H. Pinkney Prize for her book Multiracial Identities in Colonial French Africa: Race, Childhood, and Citizenship. Awarded by the Society for French Historical Studies, the prize goes to to the most distinguished book about French history in a given year. Jean-Baptiste won the prize for books published in 2023.

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