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Jean Casimir, jean.casimir@comcast.net, is a Professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences of the State University of Haiti, where he teaches courses on culture and society of Haiti and the Caribbean. His publications include the books La Cultura Oprimida (1980), La Caraibe, une et divisible (The Caribbean: One and Divisible, 1992), Ayiti Toma, Haiti Chérie (2000), Pa Bliye 1804, Souviens-toi de 1804 (2004), Libète, Egalite…sou wout fratènite, Liberté, Égalité…en route vers la Fraternité (2005), and Haïti et ses élites, L’Interminable Dialogue de Sourds (2009), as well as several book chapters and articles on Haitian culture, history, and development.

Michaeline A. Crichlow, crichlow@duke.edu, teaches in the Department of African and African American Studies at Duke University. She is the author with Patricia Northover of Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes of Fleeing the Plantation (2009) and Negotiating Caribbean Freedom: Peasants and the State in Development (2005). She has co-edited a special issue of the journal Cultural Dynamics: Insurgent Scholarship on Culture, Politics and Power, (2009) and edited Social Identities: Journal of Race, Nation and Culture (2010), which is also forthcoming as a volume titled Carnival Art, Culture & Politics: Performing Life (2012). She is currently writing on citizenship, development, and migration under globalization in Fiji, the Dominican Republic, and South Africa.

Francisco-J. Hernández Adrián, adrian@duke.edu, is Lecturer in Hispanic Studies at Durham University in the UK. He lectures on Caribbean texts and visual culture, the historical avant-gardes, and colonial Latin America. His research interests include visual, gender, and race theories of the Hispanic and Francophone Caribbean and the modern Atlantic. He has published articles on Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Canary Islands, and Atlantic studies. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled On Tropical Grounds. Insularity and the Avant-Garde in the Caribbean and the Canary Islands.

Deborah Jenson, deborah.jenson@duke.edu, is Professor of Romance Studies at Duke and co-director of the FHI “Haiti” Humanities Laboratory. Her published work includes Beyond the Slave Narrative: Politics, Sex, and Manuscripts in the Haitian Revolution (2011), Trauma and Its Representations: The Social Life of Mimesis in Post-Revolutionary France (2001), Unconscious Dominions: Psychoanalysis, Colonial Trauma, and Global Sovereignties (co-edited with Warwick Anderson and Richard C. Keller, 2011), Sarah: A Colonial Novella (co-edited [End Page 193] with Doris Kadish, 2008), and The Haiti Issue (2005). Jenson founded a Creole studies program at Duke and is engaged in studies of cholera and discourses of trauma in the Caribbean.

Rupert Lewis, rupertlew@gmail.com, is Professor of Political Thought in the Department of Government, Associate Director of the Centre for Caribbean Thought, and Associate Dean for Graduate Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences, the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. He is the author and editor of some six books (mainly on the Garvey movement and Walter Rodney), as well as numerous articles. He recently co-edited the volume George Padmore: Pan-African Revolutionary. He is a member of the Council of the Institute of Jamaica, and Chairman of the Advisory Board of the African-Caribbean Institute of Jamaica/Jamaica Memory Bank. Lewis is the Chairman of the “Friends of Liberty Hall – The Legacy of Marcus Garvey.” He is also a member of the Jamaica Reparations Commission appointed by the Government of Jamaica, which began work in May 2009.

Jermaine McCalpin, jaymakapee@yahoo.com, is an Associate Director of the Center for Caribbean Thought and lecturer of Transitional Justice in the Department of Government, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. He specializes in Africana political philosophy, Caribbean political thought, and transitional justice. His research interests include truth commissions and political accountability, as well as reparations for slavery, Native American extermination, and the Armenian genocide. Dr. McCalpin has written on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its development of a restorative justice approach to South Africa’s transitional justice issues, the moral justification for reparations for slavery, and the Armenian genocide. He is currently working on a monograph on Caribbean truth commission experiments in Haiti and Grenada, as well as the prospects for other truth commissions in Jamaica...

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