Haitian Studies Association

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Evelyne Laurent-Perrault

University of California Santa Barbara - Professor

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Email: evelauper@ucsb.edu
Open to talking with: Anyone

Interests: Arts - Performing, Arts - Visual, Cultural Studies, Diaspora Studies, Education, Environment, History, Immigration, Media, Music, Natural sciences, Queer theory, Psychology / Social psychology, Religion, Women’s and Gender Studies

Bio:
Evelyne Laurent-Perrault is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at the University of California Santa Barbara. She holds a Licenciatura degree in Biology from the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) and a Ph.D. in History of the African Diaspora from New York University (NYU). Her areas of study are African Diaspora Epistemologies, more in particular Black Women's Intellectual Contributions to Modernity, and Spanish speaking Latin America's narratives regarding Haiti that emerged during the nineteenth century.