Jennifer Anne Boittin is a historian in the departments of French and Francophone Studies, History, and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at The Pennsylvania State University and author of Undesirable: Passionate Mobility and Women’s Defiance of French Colonial Policing, 1919-1952.

Audrey Célestine is a social scientist in the department of History and the Institute for French Studies at New York University. She is the author ofLa fabrique des identités. L’encadrement politique des minorités caribéennes à Paris et New York.

Jacqueline Couti is a French and Francophone studies scholar affiliated with is CAAAS, SWGS,  and ENST at Rice University.  Her work explores gender, race, sexuality, identity politics, ecocriticism, and nationalism in (French) transatlantic contexts. She is the author of Sex, Sea, and Self and Dangerous Creole Liaisons.

Trica Keaton is an interdisciplinary social scientist in the department of African and African American Studies at Dartmouth College with affiliations in the departments of Sociology and Film and Media Studies. Her publications include #You Know You’re Black in France When…: The Fact of Everyday Antiblackness.

Lorelle Semley is a historian of Africa and the African Diaspora in the department of History at Boston College and directs the African and African Diaspora Studies program. She is the author of To Be Free and French: Citizenship in France’s Atlantic Empire.