Jennifer Boittin, Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor of Global History at UNC Chapel Hill, has won the 2022-2023 Wylie Prize in French Studies for her book Undesirable: Passionate Mobility and Women’s Defiance of French Colonial Policing 1919-1952. Drawing from
Cambodian, French, and Senegalese archives, Undesirable uncovers the hidden history of women in French Indochina and West Africa who defied colonial surveillance.