Jana Evans Braziel

Jana Evans Braziel held the position of Western College Endowed Professor in the Department of Global and Intercultural Studies at Miami University (Ohio) and previously held academic positions at the University of Cincinnati and Amherst College. Braziel is author of seven books on Caribbean diasporic arts and literatures including the following: Caribbean and Latinx Street Art in Miami. Routledge: 2024;  Street Art and Activism in the Greater Caribbean: Impossible States, Virtual Publics. Routledge, 2022;  “Riding with Death”: Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince. UP of Mississippi, 2017;  Duvalier’s Ghosts: Race, Diaspora, and U.S. Imperialism in Haitian Literatures. UP of Florida, 2010; Caribbean Genesis: Jamaica Kincaid and the Writing of New Worlds. State University of New York Press, 2009; Diaspora: An Introduction. Blackwell/Wiley, 2008; Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora. Indiana University Press, 2008.