Claudine Michel is the editor of the Journal of Haitian Studies [1] and a professor emerita [2] of Black studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. [3] 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. [4] This volume shows how Black Studies Departments emerged out of civil rights struggles in the early 1960s. [5] The University of California Santa Barbara, where Michel was faculty, is one of the earliest Black Studies Programs, established in 1969. [6] Michel is a Haitian native and practitioner of Haitian Vodou who 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." [7]
Michel believes that aid after the 2010 Haiti earthquake is too top-to-bottom, resulting in Haiti "losing [its] soul". [8] [3]
Michel received the Haitian Studies Association Service Award in 2008, particularly for her work as editor of the Journal of Haitian Studies. [10]
In 2017 Michel was named Executive Director of the Haitian Studies Association [11]
Upon retirement for UCSB, Michel was named an Emeritus Professor, and The Claudine Michel Fund at UC Santa Barbara was created in her honor, and awards "diverse faculty, staff and/or students". [12]
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