Haiti in History and Popular Culture

In this episode, Dr. Hettie V. Williams is in conversation with Dr. Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall about Haiti in history and popular culture. Dr. Williams is Associate Professor of African American history at Monmouth University. Dr. Goldstein Sepinwall is Professor and Graduate Studies Coordinator in the Department of History at California State University, San Marcos. Her research specialties include the French and Haitian Revolutions, modern Haitian history, Slavery and Film, and French colonialism as well as French-Jewish history. Dr. Goldstein Sepinwall’s latest book is Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games (University Press of Mississippi, 2021) and she is also the author of The Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism (University of California Press, 2005) and Haitian History: New Perspectives (Routledge, 2012).