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Yveline Alexis
Assistant Professor of Caribbean Studies
Oberlin College
Education/Degree:
1 History (University of Massachusetts-Amherst)
About
Yveline Alexis earned her degrees at Cornell and the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Her interdisciplinary degrees in history, Africana studies and Latin, LatinX, and Caribbean studies allows for cross-fertilization between her research, teaching, and service styles. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the Critical Caribbean Studies and Africana Studies Department at Rutgers University, she began her tenure-track post in Ohio. Currently, she is an assistant professor at Oberlin College who teaches courses, mentors students, and serves the campus and disciplines about the African Diaspora and broader Caribbean.
Current Work
Dr. Alexis current research examines an intellectual, politician, and nationalist figure with the name Charlemagne Peralte. During the US invasion of Haiti from 1915-1934, Peralte led a successful, multi-prong resistance movement against the US military. Her work examines Peralte in a multilingual and interdisciplinary fashion. Further, Alexis' presentations and publications about this historical period first prioritizes Haiti's archives and the Haitian voices from the nation, in addition to archives from across the US. Her book will hopefully appear in multilingual format (Haitian Kreyol & English) to contribute to the intellectual exchange between scholar and research contributors in Haiti.
Research Area Keyword(s)
African diaspora, Haitian resistance, transatlantic feminism, Womanism