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Marlene Daut

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Professor at Yale University

Marlene L. Daut is Professor of French, African American Studies, and History at Yale University. She is the author of "Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017); "Tropics of Haiti: Race and the Literary History of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World, 1789–1865" (Liverpool University Press, 2015); "Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution" (University of North Carolina Press, 2023); and "The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe" (Knopf, January 2025). She is also co-editor (with Grégory Pierrot and Marion Rohrleitner) of the volume, Haitian Revolutionary Fictions: An Anthology (UVA Press, 2022) and with Kaiama L. Glover of "A History of Haitian Literature."

Aug. 3, 2025

History & Repetition Featuring Dr. Marlene L. Daut and Samuel Jay Keyser

In this episode, Dr. Marlene L. Daut, Professor of French, African American Studies, and History at Yale University, talks about the significance of Haitian history to African Americans and the current strife in Haiti. Then, Samuel Jay Keyser, Peter De Florez Emeritus Professor at MIT, discusses hi…