Updates

From the prize website:

Indie talent shines on book prize shortlist

A record year for submissions sees independent publishers take their place alongside established literary...

The Haitian Times

Mar. 15, 2026

Haitian authors telling our stories to know this Women’s History Month
Spotlighting Haitian writers whose recent works share our history, identity...

Shabnam Waheed (MALD '26), of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, sat down with Dr. Marlene Daut to break down Haiti's rich history, covering topics in her latest book, ...

I am so delighted to be able to now share that The First and Last King of Haiti has won the Gilbert Chinard Book Prize from the Society for French Historical Studies!

The prize...

The American Comparative Literature Association has awarded A History of Haitian Literature, edited by Kaiama L. Glover and me, the 2026 René Wellek Prize for an Edited...

Thanks to the Georgetown Hoya newspaper for this great write-up of my talk last Wednesday!

February 20, 2026

A French and African diaspora studies expert argued the crucial...

The Haitian Revolution is the only successful, slave revolt in history, resulting in the creation of an independent state.

Haiti is also the first modern nation of the world to...

Watch the recording here!

A very interesting and insightful article by Sarah Harte called "Dear gentle reader, is Bridgerton's colourblind casting really harmful?"

In this short excerpt, Harte writes: "If...

This week, 330,000 Haitian immigrants who’ve lived and worked in the U.S. legally, sometimes for decades, were set to lose their immigration protections.

That’s after the Trump...

By Ismael David Mujahid

Feb 3, 2026

After winning a major literary award, a critically-acclaimed Haitian-American author had one simple message for Haitians in Springfield and...

I recently appeared in Mathilde Demoisel's documentary Blood, Sweat, and Sugar (Le Sucre, pour la douceur et pour le pire)

Here is a brief description:

What is the price of...

If you happen to read this review of Rich Benjamin's book, Talk to Me: Lessons from a Family Forged by History (which I just purchased and I'm looking forward to reading!), you...

How Haitian ordnance wound up in the Adirondack Mountains

New York’s Fort Ticonderoga is celebrated for the artillery it contributed to the American Revolution. Less known,...

By The Editorial Staff

What were the books of 2025 that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us? For this, the 13th-annual edition of Public Picks, section editors for Global Black...

StoryGraph has posted a great non-fiction book reading challenge, which includes The First and Last King of Haiti:

Instructions from the StoryGraph website:

Read at least one book...

From their website:

The following list was decided after consultation between California Review of Books co-editors David Starkey and Brian Tanguay and the journal’s most...

The very best of the hundreds of books on international politics, economics, and history that were featured in the magazine this year, selected by Foreign Affairs’ editors and...

‘An illuminating snapshot of editing as care work’--Marlene L. Daut is Professor of French and Black Studies at Yale University

For their December 2025 end of the year issue, ...

The First and Last King of Haiti was featured in this Miami Times article about the ReadCaribbean series at the 2025 Miami Book Fair:

Two panels on Nov. 22 tackled the issues of...