Published by Vincent Joos
I am a cultural anthropologist who works in Haiti, and with Haitian communities living in the southeastern United States. My research explores post-disaster reconstruction and the relations between states, citizens, and international institutions and NGOs in the Caribbean. I am now working on a manuscript entitled "Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Daily Life and Memory in Port-au-Prince, Haiti" where he analyzes infrastructure building in post-earthquake Haiti and the vernacular transformation of urban space by people excluded from the aid economy. I also study and teach about Caribbean music and its links to politics and economy on a global scale. I am particularly interested in Caribbean expressive culture in diasporic strongholds throughout the southeastern United States. I earned my Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2015, as well as a M.A. in Folklore from the same university in 2011. I have taught courses on post-disaster reconstruction, Caribbean music and culture, and on issues of race, class, and gender in the Caribbean and the United States.
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