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Claire Bourhis-Mariotti Editor & Author

Claire Parfait is Professor of American Studies and Book History at Université Paris 13. She has authored The Publishing History of Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852-2002 (Ashgate, 2007) and, in collaboration with Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, an annotated translation of William Wells Brown's Narrative of William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Written by Himself (1847) (PURH, 2012). She is principal investigator of the three-year Sorbonne Paris Cité project "Writing History from the Margins: the Case of African Americans" (http://hdlm.hypotheses.org/).

Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry is a Professor of American Studies at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris, France), where she directs the Center for Research on North American History (CRAN). She is also editor-in-chief for history of the French journal of American studies (RFEA). She has published on the African American family, the civil rights movement, black domestics, and material culture, including women’s cookbooks. Her most recent book, coedited with Ambre Ivol, is entitled Generations of Social Movements: Memory and the Left in the US and France (Routledge, 2015).

Claire Bourhis-Mariotti is an Associate Professor of American History at Université Paris 8. She has authored L’union fait la force. Les Noirs américains et Haïti, 1804-1893 (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2016), and recently coedited and coauthored a collection of essays entitled Couleurs, esclavage, libérations coloniales, 1804-1860 (Bécherel: Les Perséides, 2013).