Hélène Quanquin

Professor of American Studies

Université de Lille

FR

Biographie

Hélène Quanquin is a Professor of American Studies at the University of Lille (France). She studies 19th-century reform movements and activists. She is primarily interested in the mutual influence between the personal and the political and the different sites where political work is done and ideas are produced. Her latest book, Men in the American Women's Rights Movement, 1830-1890: Cumbersome Allies, was published by Routledge in 2020.

Articles (1)

enHélène Quanquin

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass’s life stood at the crossroads of the national and transatlantic connections that influenced his life and he helped create. Born with slave status in Talbot County, Maryland around 1818, he was later involved in many reform movements with international ties and participated in the circulation of ideas across the Atlantic.