Claudine Michel

个人简介

Claudine Michel is the editor of the Journal of Haitian Studies and a professor emerita of Black studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Michel is the Director of the UCSB Center for Black Studies Research. In 2004, Michel co-edited the Black Studies Reader, an early volume highlighting a broad range of significant Black Studies Scholars such as Robin D.G. Kelly, Katie Geneva Cannon, Angela Davis, Jacquelyn Grant, Elsa Barkley Brown, Stuart Hall, and Richard Brent Turner. This volume shows how Black Studies Departments emerged out of civil rights struggles in the early 1960s. The University of California Santa Barbara, where Michel was faculty, is one of the earliest Black Studies Programs, established in 1969. Michel is a Haitian native and practitioner of Haitian Vodouwho co-edited the first emic (insider) volume on Vodou, "Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth and Reality," with Patrick Belgarde-Smith. Mary Ann Clark at Yavapai College, in a review in Novo Religio, called this volume, "another extraordinary contribution by the editors and publisher."