LeGrace Benson holds an interdisciplinary PHD from Cornell University (1974; was an Associate Professor of History of Art at Cornell University, subsequently at Wells College, where she also became Associate Dean for Special Programs for Women. She was named Associate Dean for Academic Programs at the Albany Center of Empire State College-SUNY, subsequently Coordinator of Communications and Humanities in the ESC Distance Learning Center. In 1991 she took early retirement in order to devote full time to Haitian Studies Creating the Arts of Haiti Research Project with an extensive library of relevant publications open to other scholars. She served several...

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Henry (Chip) Carey has been a professor of political science at Georgia State University in Atlanta since 1998. He had published numerous journal articles and a dozen books on peacebuilding, democratization and Haitian studies, and advocates for Haitian rights. Among his Haiti-related publications include forthcoming books co-edited with Robert Fatton on Haiti's Structural Challenges; and co-edited with Karen Richman on Haiti, the Dominican Republic and the International Community. He is also the guest editor of a forthcoming special Issue on Haiti and the International Community in the Journal of International Organization Studies. Among his publications include: "Haiti: Sending in the...

Alexandra holds an M.A in Latin American Studies and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Florida. Cenatus' research interests center on how gender, religion, race, and class interact, with a focus on Haiti. In 2015, she received funding from the UF-Duke National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to explore the social role of priestesses in Haitian Vodou. Her M.A. thesis builds on this research and analyzes the ways in which Haiti's social changes affect the economic livelihood of Haitian Vodou priestesses. Cenatus is currently working on creating an online exhibit that will showcase the experiences of...

With a passion for both education and business, my goal is to use both to increase economic development in much needed communities around the world, especially Haiti. I hold a bachelor and master degrees from Florida A&M University, and currently and doctoral candidate at Columbus State University. I am also co-founder of the BEL Initiative program, which focuses on educating and connecting Haiti-based entrepreneurs to resources.

M. Stephanie Chancy is the Green Family Foundation/Digital Library of the Caribbean Fellow, and a Ph.D. candidate in History at Florida International University. Stephanie's research focuses on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European-Atlantic material culture, especially the mutual cultural and artistic exchanges between the Americas and Europe. She has a Bachelor of Science in Communications, with a double major in European History, and a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies, with an emphasis in History both from the University of Miami. Stephanie has had appointments as a lecturer in Art History at FIU and UM and has curated two Haitian art exhibitions...

Dasha Chapman (Ph.D. Performance Studies, NYU) is an interdisciplinary dancer-scholar whose research, teaching, and performance work in critical dance studies moves through a nexus of African diaspora theory, performance studies, ethnography, queer/gender studies, and Caribbean thought. Chapman's first book centers on the labor of five contemporary Haitian dance artists who build communities through dance in both Haiti and in the diasporas of New York City and Boston. The project traces how the teaching and choreographic practices of these artists foster alternative political imaginations, examining the ways in which dance, as fostered by these Haitian artists, makes and remakes "Haiti." As...

Jean F. Claude is a professor of Hospitality Management at New York City College of Technology, CUNY having become part of the education team in 2001. He is a Certified Hospitality Educator and a Certified Culinary Educator and has a Master of International Business Management degree from Webster University. Professor Claude is an accomplished hospitality and tourism professional having held responsible positions with Ogden Aviation Services, Russian Tea Room, Marriott International, and Walt Disney World. In 2010, he was inducted to the Academie Culinaire de France. He is currently the vice-president of the Société Culinaire Philanthropique and an active member...

Nadège T. Clitandre is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Global Studies. Clitandre received her B.A. in English Literature from Hampton University, a M.A. in the Humanities at the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in African Diaspora Studies with a designated emphasis in Women, Gender, Sexuality at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Global Studies in 2011, Clitandre was the recipient of the University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Department of English and the Center for Black Studies Research at UCSB. She holds an affiliate appointment in the Department of Black Studies and Comparative...