Patrick Bellegarde-Smith is a professor emeritus of

Africology Black studies or Africana studies (with nationally specific terms, such as African American studies and Black Canadian studies), is an interdisciplinary academic field that primarily focuses on the study of the history, culture, and politics of ...

at the

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. 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.

Education

He earned his PhD in international relations from

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and he holds degrees in comparative politics and histor

Family

Bellegarde-Smith is the grandson of the

Haiti Haiti, officially the Republic of Haiti, is a country on the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and south of the Bahamas. It occupies the western three-eighths of the island, which it shares with the Dominican ...

an diplomat

Dantès Bellegarde Dantès Bellegarde (18 May 1877 – 16 June 1966) was a Haitian historian and diplomat. He is best known for his works ''Histoire du Peuple Haïtien'' (1953), ''La Résistance Haïtienne'' (1937), ''Haïti et ses Problèmes'' (1943), and ''Pour u ...

. Bellegarde-Smith is an

houngan Oungan (also written as ''houngan'') is the term for a male priest in Haitian Vodou (a female priest is known as a ''mambo''). The term is derived from Gbe languages (Fon, Ewe, Adja, Phla, Gen, Maxi and Gun). The word hounnongan means chief p ...

, or

Vodou Voodoo may refer to: Religions * West African Vodún, a religion practiced by Gbe-speaking ethnic groups * African diaspora religions, a list of related religions sometimes called Vodou/Voodoo ** Candomblé Jejé, also known as Brazilian Vodum ...

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

External links

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