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Gina Athena Ulysse | |
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| Born | 1966 Pétion-ville, Haiti |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Upsala College BA; University of Michigan MA, PHD |
| Thesis | Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importing, A Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica (2007) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Wesleyan University; UC Santa Cruz |
| Main interests | Anthropology, women's studies |
Gina Athena Ulysse is a Haitian-American anthropologist, feminist, poet, performance artist and activist. Professor Ulysse earned her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan. She worked as a professor of anthropology at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, before joining the Feminist Studies department at UC Santa Cruz in fall 2020. Ulysse is most known for her 2015 book Why Haiti Needs New Narratives: A Post-Quake Chronicle.[1][2][3]
She is a feminist artist-anthropologist-activist, and self-described Post-Zora Interventionist. An interdisciplinary methodologist, her research interests culminate at the intersections of geopolitics, historical representations and the dailiness of Black diasporic conditions.
- ^ Edwards, Jennifer (December 9, 2010). "Haiti Is Wailing: Gina Athena Ulysse, Anthropologist and Performing Artist". The Huffington Post. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
- ^ "Gina Athena Ulysse". Need to Know on PBS. PBS. Retrieved December 22, 2015.
- ^ Ulysse, Gina Athena (2015). Why Haiti Needs New Narratives: A Post-Quake Chronicle. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 978-0-8195-7544-9.