Claudine Michel

Claudine Michel is the editor of the Journal of Haitian Studies{{Cite web |title=Editorial Board {{!}} Haitian Studies |url=https://engagedscholarship.ucsb.edu/journal-of-haitian-studies/editorial-board |access-date=2022-10-30 |website=engagedscholarship.ucsb.edu}} and a professor emerita{{Cite web |title=Claudine Michel {{!}} Department of Feminist Studies - UC Santa Barbara |url=https://www.femst.ucsb.edu/people/claudine-michel |access-date=2022-10-30 |website=www.femst.ucsb.edu}} of Black studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.{{Cite web |date=2010-02-11 |title=10 minutes with ... Claudine Michel |url=https://religionnews.com/2010/02/11/10-minutes-with-claudine-michel/ |access-date=2022-10-30 |website=Religion News Service |language=en-US}} Michel is the Director of the UCSB Center for Black Studies Research. She is a Haitian native and practitioner of Haitian Vodou, and has done much in the field of Haitian studies.{{Cite web |title=Claudine Michel Receives Award from Haitian Studies Association {{!}} Department of Black Studies - UC Santa Barbara |url=https://www.blackstudies.ucsb.edu/news/announcement/219 |access-date=2022-10-30 |website=www.blackstudies.ucsb.edu}}

Michel believes that aid after the 2010 Haiti earthquake is too top-to-bottom, resulting in Haiti "losing [its] soul".{{Cite web |last=Rothbard {{!}} |first=Sarah |date=2012-11-15 |title=Are We All Wyclef Jean? {{!}} The Takeaway |url=https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2012/11/15/are-we-all-wyclef-jean/events/the-takeaway/ |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=Zócalo Public Square |language=en-US}}

Works

Etude Comparative des Théories du Dévelopement de l'Enfant (DeBoeck/Université, Bruxelles/Paris, 1994). Co-author.
Aspects Moraux et Educatifs du Vodou Haitien (Le Natal, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1995)
Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality (Indiana University Press, 2006). Co-author.
Vodou in Haitian Life and Culture: Invisible Powers" (2006). Written by Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, edited by Michel.{{Cite web |title=Vodou in Haitian Life and Culture: Invisible Powers |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/538001-vodou-in-haitian-life-and-culture-invisible-powers |access-date=2022-10-30 |website=Goodreads |language=en}}
Offerings: Continuity and Transformation in Haitian Vodou (Oxford Press)

Awards and honors

The Claudine Michel Fund at UC Santa Barbara was created in her honor, and awards "diverse faculty, staff and/or students".{{Cite web |title=UCSB Academic Initiatives - Home |url=https://academics.sa.ucsb.edu/ |access-date=2022-10-30 |website=academics.sa.ucsb.edu}}

Michel received the Haitian Studies Association Service Award in 2008, particularly for her work as editor of the Journal of Haitian Studies.{{Cite web |title=Claudine Michel, Professor of Black Studies at UC Santa Barbara and Director of the campus's Center for Black Studies Research, has received the Haitian Studies Association Service Award. {{!}} Division of Social Sciences - UC Santa Barbara |url=https://www.socialsciences.ucsb.edu/news/announcement/306 |access-date=2022-10-30 |website=www.socialsciences.ucsb.edu}}

References

[https://csr.princeton.edu/events/2021/conversation-claudine-michel "A Conversation with Claudine Michel"]. Center for Culture, Society, and Religion. Retrieved 2022-11-01.

External links

[https://www.blackstudies.ucsb.edu/people/claudine-michel "Claudine Michel | Department of Black Studies - UC Santa Barbara"]. www.blackstudies.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
[http://potomitan.net/claudinemichel.html "Poto Mitan: Dr. Claudine Michel, consultant for film and Chair of the Department of Black Studies and Director for the Center for Black Studies Research, UC Santa Barbara"]. potomitan.net. Retrieved 2022-10-30.

Category:Living people

Category:University of California, Santa Barbara faculty

Category:Haitian women academics

Category:Black studies scholars

Category:Haitian Vodou practitioners

Category:Year of birth missing (living people)