Publications
2024
Scholarly publications
Gillett, R. (2024). Braided Solidarities: Non-unified anti-colonial activisms in motion through time.
Professional publications
Gillett, R., & Andeweg, A. (2024). Unsettling Knowledge #21: Exploring the Life of Anton de Kom through One Book One Campus. Digital or Visual Products, Utrecht University. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3r0U3eKWVmhrfC9dD830NR?si=55c527ebf97a49ad
2023
Scholarly publications
Gillett, R. (2023). Book Review: "Soundscapes of Liberation: African American Music in Postwar France". Journal of Social History, 57(2), 362-364. https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shad019
Gillett, R. (2023). "Cultural Pan-Africanism in Twentieth Century France". In T. Chafer, & M. A. Majumdar (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Francophone Africa (1 ed., pp. 1-17). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351142168-22
2022
Scholarly publications
Gillett, R. (2022). “Performing Belonging: Jazz and Black European Identities,”. Manuscript in preparation. In The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies Routledge.
Hung, J., & Gillett, R. (2022). Popular Culture. In S. Berger (Ed.), Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350927926.111
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/436249/Bloomsbury_History_Theory_and_Method_Popular_Culture.pdf?sequence=1
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/436249/Bloomsbury_History_Theory_and_Method_Popular_Culture.pdf?sequence=1
Gillett, R. A. (2022). "Songs of War and Dissent: Maori Anti-War Activism and its cultural legacy.". Manuscript in preparation. In Das, Steinbach, & Maguire (Eds.), Colonial Encounters in a Time of Global Conflict, 1914–1918 Routledge.
Popularising publications
Gillett, R. (2022). Digital Black Atlantics. Manuscript in preparation. Web publication/site, African American Intellectual History Society.
2021
Scholarly publications
Gillett, R. (2021). "Ethiopa Free! Pan-Africanism and Protest in Paris, 1935”. Unpublished. In The Society for the Study of French History
Gillett, R. (2021). "Rapping and taking the Rap: French Rap, Criminality, and the Courts". Unpublished. In European Social Science History
Gillett, R. (2021). 'Decolonizing the Curriculum' Blog for ERC Decolonizing Europe Project. Web publication/site https://securing-europe.wp.hum.uu.nl/decolonizing-the-curriculum/
Professional publications
Gillett, R. (2021). Unsettling Knowledge: Decolonising the Archive: Sites of Memory or Manipulation?. Digital or Visual Products https://soundcloud.com/utrechtuniversity/unsettling-knowledge-9-decolonising-the-archive-sites-of-memory-or-manipulation
Gillett, R. (2021). Unsettling Knowledge: Scotland and Empire: Colonist or Colonised?. Digital or Visual Products https://soundcloud.com/utrechtuniversity/unsettling-knowledge-8-scotland-and-empire-colonists-or-colonised
Gillett, R. (2021). Unsettling Knowledge: The Legacy of Empire in Museums. Digital or Visual Products https://soundcloud.com/utrechtuniversity/unsettling-knowledge-7-museums-and-the-legacy-of-empire
Gillett, R. (2021). Unsettling Knowledge: Unsettling Bridgerton: Race, Representation, and Royalty. Digital or Visual Products https://soundcloud.com/utrechtuniversity/unsettling-knowledge-6-unsettling-bridgerton-race-representation-and-royalty
Gillett, R. (2021). Unsettling Knowledge: Behind the Book: Visions of African Unity. Digital or Visual Products https://soundcloud.com/utrechtuniversity/unsettling-knowledge-5-behind-the-book-visions-of-african-unity?utm_source=tpa.wixapps.net&utm_campaign=wtshare&utm_medium=widget&utm_content=https%253A%252F%252Fsoundcloud.com%252Futrechtuniversity%252Funsettling-knowledge-5-behind-the-book-visions-of-african-unity
Gillett, R. (2021). Unsettling Knowledge: The History of Racism: Teaching During the #BLM Movement. Digital or Visual Products https://soundcloud.com/utrechtuniversity/the-history-of-racism-teaching-during-the-blm-movement
Gillett, R. A. (2021). At Home in Our Sounds: Music, Race, and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris. Oxford University Press.
Popularising publications
Gillett, R. (2021). "My Name is Peaches". Journal of Literary Studies, 34(1).
Gillett, R. (2021). “Racism in Sport: Why it comes to surface when teams lose". Web publication/site, The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/racism-in-sport-why-it-comes-to-the-surface-when-teams-lose-164413
2020
Scholarly publications
Gillett, R. (2020). Practices & Techniques in Decolonizing Teaching, A Short Guide. Web publication/site, The Decolonisation Group. https://8eee2779-4642-4fe3-9400-514efb3b5767.filesusr.com/ugd/492689_1b1deb1330b443399fdb64b7cd8da061.pdf
Gillett, R. (2020). Glocal Invasions: Appropriating Music From Abroad. In K. Nathaus, & M. Rempe (Eds.), Musicking in Twentieth-Century Europe: A Handbook (pp. 371-392). De Gruyter Oldenbourg. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110651966-018
Professional publications
Gillett, R. A. (2020). Unsettling Knowledge: Anticolonialism and Pandemics. Digital or Visual Products, . https://soundcloud.com/utrechtuniversity/unsettling-knowledge-3-anticolonialism-and-pandemics
Gillett, R. A. (2020). Unsettling Knowledge: Racism in Football. Digital or Visual Products, . https://soundcloud.com/utrechtuniversity/unsettling-knowledge-2-racism-in-football
Gillett, R. A. (2020). Unsettling Knowledge: Indo-Dutch Cuisine. Digital or Visual Products https://soundcloud.com/utrechtuniversity/unsettling-knowledge-1-indo-dutch-cuisine
2019
Scholarly publications
Gillett, R. A. (2019). Not Quite Postcolonial Paris: Imperial Voices, a Kiwi Café, and Black Panther. American Historical Review, 124(3), 996–1001. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhz460
Professional publications
Gillett, R. A. (2019). A Hidden Chapter of Women of the Klan. History Today, 69(7). https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/hidden-chapter-women-klan
2018
Scholarly publications
Gillett, R. A. (2018). What is the Black Atlantic? By Rachel Gillett. Digital or Visual Products
Gillett, R. A. (2018). "Battling on a different front: World War One and the Rhetoric of Citizenship for Service". First World War Studies, 9(2), 209-229. https://doi.org/10.1080/19475020.2019.1583119
Gillett, R. A. (2018). "Black Panther: A Call to Ethiopia" Blog for African American Intellectual History Society Series. Web publication/site https://www.aaihs.org/black-panther-a-call-to-ethiopia/
Popularising publications
Gillett, R. A. (2018). The Music of the Napoleonic Era. History Today.
Gillett, R. A., & Gerits, F. P. L. (2018). "What's Black Panther got to do with it?". Web publication/site
Gillett, R. A. (2018). "Watching Black Panther in the Netherlands" Blog for MOED (Museum of Equality and Difference). Web publication/site https://moed.online/nl/watching-black-panther-in-the-netherlands/
2017
Scholarly publications
Gillett, R. A. (2017). "Hip-Hop as Lieux-de-Memoire or Site of Struggle". Unpublished. In Constructing America, Defining Europe
Gillett, R. A., Mosmann, P., & Fisher, C. (2017). "At the intersection of history". Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, (23). https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=041749246625089;res=IELAPA;type=pdf
2016
Scholarly publications
Gillett, R. (2016). "'Our Own Race' in France: World War One and Racial Solidarity". Unpublished. In Society for French Historical Studies
Gillett, R. A. (2016). Apirana Ngata (composer) Anna Hato (artist), “Te Ope Tuatahi (song),” in Cultural Exchange in a Time of Global Conflict. Web publication/site http://sourcebook.cegcproject.eu/items/show/260
Gillett, R. A. (2016). Dominion, “'Seven Maori Reservists Arrested', Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 226 (12 June 1918),” in Cultural Exchange in a Time of Global Conflict. Web publication/site http://sourcebook.cegcproject.eu/items/show/259
Gillett, R. A. (2016). (Book Review) A Review of "Architects of World History" edited by Kenneth Curtis and Jerry Bentley. The History Teacher, 49.
2015
Scholarly publications
Gillett, R. A. (2015). (Book Review) A Review of "Networks in Tropical Medicine: Internationalism, Colonialism, and the Rise of a Medical Specialty, 1890-1930" by Deborah Neill. The Journal of American Culture, 38(4), 428-430. https://doi.org/10.1111/jacc.12484
2014
Scholarly publications
Gillett, R. A. (2014). (Book Review) A Review of "Black Soundscapes, White Stages" by Edwin Hill. H-France Review, 14(184). https://www.h-france.net/vol14reviews/vol14no184gillett.pdf
2013
Scholarly publications
Gillett, R. (2013). "Race Troops in Europe". Unpublished. In International Society for World War One Studies
Gillett, R. A. (2013). "Office Work". In J. Ciment (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age : From the End of World War I to the Great Crash
Gillett, R. A. (2013). "Fashion, Women's". In J. Ciment (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age : From the End of World War I to the Great Crash (pp. 254-257)
Gillett, R. A., & Ciment, J. (2013). "Europe, Relations with". In J. Ciment (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age : From the End of World War I to the Great Crash (pp. 230-234)
Gillett, R. A. (2013). (Book Review) A Review of "The Family: A World History" by Mary Jo Maynes and Ann Waltner. The History Teacher, 46.
Gillett, R. A. (2013). (Book Review) A Review of “Black France/France Noire: The History and Politics of Blackness” edited by Tyler Stovall, Trica Danielle Keaton, T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting. History: Reviews of New Books. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03612759.2013.787875
Gillett, R. A. (2013). “Jazz Women, Gender Politics, and the Francophone Atlantic”. Atlantic Studies: Global Currents, 10(1), 109-130. https://doi.org/10.1080/14788810.2013.766494
2012
Scholarly publications
Gillett, R. (2012). “’We call for women, for men of thought and action’: Gendered media representations of anti-colonial activism in interwar Paris”. Unpublished. In Society for French Historical Studies
2011
Scholarly publications
Gillett, R. (2011). “Rugby, Race, and Sacred Space: New Zealand and the South African rugby tours during apartheid”. Unpublished. In American Historical Association
Gillett, R. (2011). “Contracting Individuals or Commodities? Women and Dance at the Exposition Coloniale of 1931". Unpublished. In The Society for French Historical Studies
2010
Scholarly publications
Gillett, R. (2010). “Reclaiming the Biguine: Music-Making and the early Negritude Movement”. Unpublished. In University of Liverpool
Gillett, R. (2010). “Soldiering, Citizenship, and Transatlantic solidarity”. Unpublished. In World Historical Association
Gillett, R. (2010). "Dancing Up a Political Storm: Marketing the anti-colonial message at Bals de Nuit". Unpublished. In The Western Society for French History
Gillett, R. A. (2010). "Jazz and the Evolution of Black American Cosmopolitanism in Interwar Paris". Journal of World History, 21(3). http://www.academia.edu/821468/Jazz_and_the_Evolution_of_Black_American_Cosmopolitanism_in_Interwar_Paris
2008
Scholarly publications
Gillett, R. (2008). “Banana Skirts, Black Femininity and the Jazz Atlantic, 1920-1929”. Unpublished. In The Berkshire Conference on the History of Women
2006
Scholarly publications
Gillett, R. A. (2006). "Music of the Great Depression". Journal of Popular Culture. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2006.00265.x