Jeanine Quene

Academic Year: 
2020-21
Direction: 
To Yale
Exchange Partners: 
Cambridge University
Project Title: 
Conservative Women, Race, and the Civilizing Process in America, 1900-1930

Jeanine Quené is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on the race and gender politics of white women who sought to increase female political power for conservative ends in order to enact ‘civilization’ in early twentieth century America. Her dissertation examines the interactions of conservative women in three different regions of the U.S. – the South, the West, and the Northeast – with three distinct racialized populations: African Americans, Native Americans, and eastern and southern European immigrants. Her research is supported by the Cambridge Trust and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). Jeanine recently completed a fellowship at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress and has received a Royal Historical Society research grant. Prior to coming to Cambridge, Jeanine worked for the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Washington, D.C., and obtained her M.A. degree in United States Studies: History and Politics from University College London, where she received the Roosevelt Dissertation Prize for her M.A. dissertation. Originally from The Netherlands, she also holds a Liberal Arts & Sciences degree (History and Political Science) from University College Utrecht, the honours college of Utrecht University.