Jessica Balguy
Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic (CBESA)
Education
Ph.D., History, Écoles des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), ParisBio
Originally from Paris, I have completed my thesis on the history of slavery in the French West Indies. My work focuses on the compensation of slave owners after abolition in the French colonial empire in 1848. My book, and the public database, "," document the debates that led to this historic decision and the compensation payments.
Throughout my thesis years, and particularly in recent years, my research has led me to consider the question of slavery and its legacies from an international perspective, which I hope to develop within the Center for Black European Studies and the Atlantic and the Department of Languages, Cultures & Applied Linguistics. It is with the idea of developing a transatlantic exchange that I enthusiastically join the department and its members.
Areas of Interest
- Slavery
- Compensation
- French colonial empire