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Cecile Accilien
Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Columbus State University, Columbus, GA
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| Professor Accilien received her Ph.D. in French from Tulane University in New Orleans. She was assistant professor of Francophone and French literature at Portland State university in Oregon previous to her present appointment. She has published in French and English journals and her research interests include representations of women in Caribbean and African literature and contemporary representations of plantations, or habitations in French, in Louisiana and the French Caribbean. |
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Jessica Devi Adams
Lecturer in English, University of California-Berkeley
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| Forced from Tulane University, where she received her Ph.D. and taught, by Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Adams is now associated with the University of California-Berkeley. She is also co-editor, with Cecile Accilien of the collection of essays, "Just Below South: Performing Intercultures in the Caribbean and Southern United States," to be published by the University of Virginia Press. |
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| George Anglade
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| Dr. Anglade is a geopgrapher with a passion for literature who set himself the task of modernizing the oral tradition of the Haitian lodyans and of universalizing its expressions.
He received his Ph.D. in geography from the University of Strasbourg and is emeritus professor and chair of the Department of Geography of the Universite du Quebec in Montreal. |
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Janet L. DeCosmo
Professor of Humanities, Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL
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| After obtaining undergraduate and graduate degrees in International Affairs, Professor DeCosmo went on to obtain a Ph.D. in Humanities from Florida State University. She currently teaches courses on the Caribbean and Africa and directs the Office of Black Diaspora Culture.
She has published a text on African film and another on Caribbean religion and culture, as well as numerous journal articles on reggae and Rastafari, Bob Marley, Trinidadian Carnival, and Bahamian Junkaroo. Current research focuses on the Creoles of New... More |
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| Jan J Dominique
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| Jan Dominique is an author, educator and journalist born in Haiti, now living in Montreal. She first went to Quebec as a student, and returned to Haiti in 1979, where she taught at high schools and at the Université d'Etat d'Haiti. She also worked as a broadcaster at Radio Haiti, owned by her father, Jean Dominique, who was assassinated for political reasons in 2000.
Political pressure and threats on her life forced her to leave Haiti in 2003. In addition to... More |
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| Ulrick Jean-Pierre
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| Drawing and painting from an early age, the artist received his training from the Foyer des Arts Plastiques in Haiti before being invited to the U.S. and studying at the University of the Arts at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pa.
Mr. Jean-Pierre's fascination with Haitian history forms the basis of his work, which hangs in galleries and museums in the U.S., Haiti, Canada, Europe, and Africa and has been featured in a range of articles and publications.
The artist... More |
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Marie Léticée
Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at the University of Central Florida.
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| Marie Léticée is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures at the University of Central Florida. She received degrees from the University of Paris and the University of South Florida in Tampa before coming to UCF and has published in journals such as Callaloo. |
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Elmide Meleance
Montgomery County (MD) Public Schools
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| A teacher with the Montgomery County (MD) public schools, Ms. Meleance is also pursuing her doctorate in education at American University in Washington, DC.
She received her master's in French studies and literature at Montclair State University in New Jersey.
Her research interests include linguistics, second-language acquisition, and translation, and she has published on these subjects as well. |
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Melinda Miles
Co-Director, Haiti Reborn/ Quixote Center, Hyattsville, MD
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| Melinda Miles has been actively involved in Haitian issues since 1993. She coordinates the Haiti Reborn program of the Quixote Center, which supports community-based Haitian initiatives in the U.S. and advocates for justice in U.S. policy toward Haiti and its people.
Miles has coordinated over a dozen delegations to Haiti and was a press spokesperson for the International Coalition of Independent Observers for Haiti's elections held in 2000. She authored a report on that process, "Elections 2000:Monitoring Participatory Democracy in Haiti." |
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Valentina Peguero
Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
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| Dr. Peguero received her B.A. in Education from the Universidad Catolica Madre y Maestra, Santiago, Dominican Republic and a M.A. and Ph.D. in History from Columbia University, New York City.
Specializing in modern Caribbean and Latin American history and culture, Dr. Peguero's particular interests are issues of ethnicity and race, Caribbean women's history, and Dominican political and military history.
She is the author of many journal articles on these subjects and several books, among them "The Militarization of Culture in the Dominican... More |
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Erin B. Taylor
Anthropology Lecturer, The University of Sydney, Australia
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| Erin Taylor is a Lecturer in Anthropology at The University of Sydney, Australia. Her academic interests include urban anthropology; social stratification and classifications; poverty, production and consumption; and material culture. Her doctoral dissertation "Abajo el Puente: Place and the Politics of Progress in Santo Domingo" explores the strategies and practices that residents of an inner-city squatter settlement without legal land title engage in as they attempt to achieve forms of progress on their own and other people's terms. She is... More |
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Tatiana K. Wah
Assistant Professor of Urban Development and Policy, New School University, NY
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| Dr. Wah is assistant professor of urban development and policy at the Robert J. Milano School of Management and Urban Policy of the New School University in New York. She received her master's degree and doctorate in urban and regional planning and policy development from Rutgers University and her undergraduate degree from Brown University.
Her research and consulting work have focused on two areas: the economic development of small countries, particularly those in the Caribbean; and the global management of... More |
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