Graduation Year
2020
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
M.A.
Degree Name
Master of Arts (M.A.)
Degree Granting Department
Anthropology
Major Professor
Dillon Mahoney, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Kevin A. Yelvington, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Kersuze Simeon-Jones, Ph.D.
Keywords
civic engagement, higher education, intra anti-Haitianism, labor, protest, world anthropologies
Abstract
Unlike many of the autoethnographic accounts in world anthropologies discourse, this study employs critical educational ethnography to both address the geopolitics of Haitian anthropology while also spotlighting an understudied group: university faculty. This study addresses: What are the conditions of academic labor for anthropology professors working in Haiti? Moreover, what is the price of being an anthropology professor at the School of Ethnology at the State University of Haiti (UEH), and how do professors add meaningful value to their labor through sacrifice, ingenuity, and civic engagement? Despite professors’ work-related challenges and Haiti’s severe “brain drain” levels, for many professors, their labor represents a commitment to civic engagement and their desire to work at home.
Scholar Commons Citation
Nau, Nadège, "Civic Engagement amid Civil Unrest: Haitian Social Scientists Working at Home" (2020). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/8473
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Higher Education and Teaching Commons, Other Languages, Societies, and Cultures Commons, Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons
