Contributors
- Contributors
Vanessa Agard-Jones is a postdoctoral fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University. A political anthropologist, she focuses her research on the intersections of sexual and environmental politics and their relationship to debates about sovereignty in the (French) Caribbean. After her tenure with the society, she will join Yale University’s faculty as assistant professor of women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.
Wendy Asquith is a PhD candidate at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom and an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award Holder with Tate Liverpool for the project Haiti in Art: Creating and Curating in the Black Atlantic. Her research focuses on the exhibition of Haitian art from the late nineteenth century to the contemporary moment, with a particular focus on postcolonial identities in a global context.
Greg Beckett is an assistant professor of anthropology at Bowdoin College. He has published articles on environmental, urban, and political crises in Haiti and on the ethical and political dimensions of international intervention and emergency response.
Yarimar Bonilla is an assistant professor of anthropology and Caribbean studies at Rutgers University, where she is on the advisory board for the Critical Caribbean Studies Initiative. She teaches and writes about social movements, colonial legacies, political sovereignty, and historical memory in the Caribbean and the French outre-mer. Her publications have appeared in such journals as Cultural Anthropology, Caribbean Studies, Interventions, and Cultural Dynamics. She is currently completing a manuscript about historical memory and political activism in the French Antilles.
Jane Bryce was born in Tanzania and was educated there, in the United Kingdom, and in Nigeria. After working as a cultural journalist and editor, she joined the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, in 1992, where she is a professor of African literature and cinema. She researches and publishes in the areas of contemporary Caribbean and African fiction, popular literature, women’s writing, memoir, visual culture, and film.
Elizabeth Colomba is a representational artist of Martinican descent, born and reared in France and currently living and working in New York City. On graduating from college, she applied her skills to storyboard advertising and moved to Los Angeles to pursue painting while working on feature films (Catwoman, A Single Man, Jesse James). Nicknamed “the black Vermeer,” she creates paintings that depict “traditional” historical and literary subjects as black, enabling her to challenge our inherited perceptual modes and conspicuously generating a space for her subjects to inhabit the rewriting of their history. Her message is an egalitarian one of beauty in coexistence. [End Page 244]
Jean-Ulrick Désert (whose work appears on the cover of this issue) is a Haitian-born visual artist who works within a tradition of conceptual-work engaged with social-cultural practices, which he characterizes as visualizing “conspicuous invisibility.” He graduated from Cooper Union and Columbia University and has lectured or been a critic at Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, Humboldt University, the Ecole nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, and TransArt Institute, where he developed a course on art practice in an age of crisis. Well known for his Negerhosen 2000, the provocative Burqa Project, and his poetic Goddess Project, he has exhibited in Europe, North America, and the Caribbean. In 2014 his work will be exhibited at the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis) and the Grand Palais (Paris).
Robert Fatton Jr. is the Julia A. Cooper Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. He is the author of several books and a large number of scholarly articles. His publications include Black Consciousness in South Africa (1986); The Making of a Liberal Democracy: Senegal’s Passive Revolution, 1975–1985 (1987); Predatory Rule: State and Civil Society in Africa (1992); Haiti’s Predatory Republic: The Unending Transition to Democracy (2002); and The Roots of Haitian Despotism (2007). His newest book, Haiti: Trapped in the Outer Periphery, is forthcoming in February 2014.
Rhonda Frederick teaches Caribbean and African diaspora literary studies at Boston College, where she also directs the African and African diaspora studies program. Her research interests include contemporary popular fiction, literatures of the African diaspora, cultural studies, and narratives of migration. She is...
