Keynote speakers > Gina Athena Ulysse

Gina Athena Ulysse is Professor of Anthropology at Wesleyan University.  In 2015, she received Wesleyan’s Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching and the Haitian Studies Association award for Excellence in Scholarship.

A public anthropologist and performance artist, Ulysse’s research integrates her interests in Black diasporic conditions, ethnography, pedadogy, performance and representation. More specifically, her interdisciplinary work explores the continuous impact of history on agency and possibilities of social justice in the present. Her publications include Why Haiti Needs New Narratives: A Post Quake Chronicle (2015) and Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importing, A Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica (2007), and Because When God is too Busy:Haiti, me & THE WORLD (2017) as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Her performance projects include VooDooDoll, What if Haiti Were a Woman? and Contemplating Absences and Distances. Ulysse was the invited editor of "Caribbean Rasanblaj”(2015) a double issue of e-misférica, NYU's Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics journal and editor of “Pawol Fanm sou Douz Janvye” (2011) in Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism journal. An intermittent blogger, she often muses on AfricaIsACountry, Huffington Post, Ms Blog and Tikkun Daily.

Web page: http://www.ginaathenaulysse.com/