Publications
2024
Professional publications
Gillett, R. (2024). Unsettling Knowledge #18: Eugène Mona, Voice of Martinique. Digital or Visual Products, Utrecht University.
Gillett, R. (2024). Unsettling knowledge #19: Student-led initiatives around race: In conversation with ACHN and POC-Co. Digital or Visual Products, Utrecht University.
Gillett, R., & John, K. (2024). Unsettling Knowledge #20: Doing History from the Caribbean with Kesewa John. Digital or Visual Products, Utrecht University.
Gillett, R. (2024). Unsettling Knowledge #22: Imprints. Digital or Visual Products, Utrecht University.
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.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351142168-22
Professional publications
Gillett, R., & Mutsvairo, B. (2023). Unsettling Knowledge #17: Exploring Digital Activism with Bruce Mutsvairo. Digital or Visual Products, Utrecht University.
2022
Scholarly publications
Gillett, R. (2022). Digital Black Atlantics. Web publication/site, African American Intellectual History Society.
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. In Das, Steinbach, & Maguire (Eds.), Colonial Encounters in a Time of Global Conflict, 1914–1918 (pp. 149-169). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315112671-9
2021
Scholarly publications
Gillett, R. (2021). "My Name is Peaches". Journal of Literary Studies, 34(1).
Gillett, R. A. (2021). At Home in Our Sounds: Music, Race, and Cultural Politics in Interwar Paris. Oxford University Press.
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). 'Decolonizing the Curriculum' Blog for ERC Decolonizing Europe Project. Web publication/site https://securing-europe.wp.hum.uu.nl/decolonizing-the-curriculum/
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
Popularising publications
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. 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
Popularising 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). "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). What is the Black Atlantic? By Rachel Gillett. Digital or Visual Products
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., 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. A. (2016). (Book Review) A Review of "Architects of World History" edited by Kenneth Curtis and Jerry Bentley. The History Teacher, 49.
Professional publications
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
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. 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
Professional publications
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)
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). “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