Patrick Bellegarde-Smith is a professor emeritus of Africology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Bellegarde-Smith is an associate editor of the Journal of Haitian Studies and former president of the Haitian Studies Association and the Congress of Santa Barbara (KOSANBA), a scholarly association for the study of Vodou and other African-derived religions.[1]

Education

He earned his PhD in international relations from American University and he holds degrees in comparative politics and history.

Family

Bellegarde-Smith is the grandson of the Haitian diplomat Dantès Bellegarde.[2] Bellegarde-Smith is an houngan, or Vodou priest.

Books

  • In the Shadow of Powers: Dantès Bellegarde in Haitian Social Thought (1985)
  • Haiti: The Breached Citadel (1990) (Second Edition 2004)
  • Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in a New World (Editor) (2005)
  • Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality (Co-editor with Claudine Michel) (2006)
  • Invisible Powers: Vodou and Development in Haiti (Co-editor with Claudine Michel) (2006)

References

  1. ↑ "Biography". University of Milwaukee Department of Africology. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
  2. ↑ Joseph, Celucien. ""Haiti Then and Now" Interviews Professor Patrick Bellegarde-Smith". Haiti Then and Now. Retrieved 6 October 2020.


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