Goman Memory Project

Crystal Nicole Eddins is an Associate Professor of Africana Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is the author of Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution: Collective Action in the African Diaspora (Cambridge University Press, 2021), and several other works about the history of resistance and revolution in Haiti.

Dasha A. Chapman is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Kennesaw State University. Her writings have appeared in The Black Scholar, Dance Chronicle, the Journal of Haitian Studies, and Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. She is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research and performance work coalesces ethnography, critical dance and performance studies, African Diaspora/Caribbean studies, and queer/gender studies, with specific focus on reimagining histories in Haiti.

Jean-Sebastien Duvilaire is an Independent Scholar, Haitian Artist, and Houngan. He is the founder of ACEGA, Association pour la Culture et l’Education dans Grand’Anse [Association for Culture and Education in Grand’Anse], a non-profit organization dedicated to cultural education and social uplift, the AfrikAyiti Project, and Tahomey Chocolate. He has trained in African and Afro-Haitian techniques, as well as in classical ballet, modern, and contemporary dance. Duvilaire’s teaching, choreography, travel, collaborations, and study of Vodou promote cultural exchange and education, and cultural sustainability.