Jacqueline Allain
Bard CollegeAs program coordinator for Freedom to Learn at PEN America, Jacqueline Allain designs and supports coalition-building efforts against educational gag orders and politically motivated restrictions on teaching and learning in our nation’s educational institutions. Allain holds a PhD in History from Duke University and an MEd in Curriculum & Instruction from the University of Virginia. Her wide-ranging research interests span slavery and abolition in the Atlantic world, feminist political economy, and, more recently, twentieth-century United States educational history. In addition to a forthcoming academic article and book chapter on the topic of educational freedom in the United States, her writing has appeared in Slavery & Abolition, the Journal of Women’s History, and History Compass, among other publications. She is the recipient of the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching from Duke University, the Albert J. Beveridge Award from the American Historical Association, and the Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship.
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