Millery Polyne

Millery Polyné’s teaching and research interests examine the history of US African American and Afro-Caribbean intellectual thought; coloniality in the Americas; the politics of tourism and Caribbean infrastructure; and race and sports. He has published articles in journals such as Small Axe, Caribbean Studies, and the Journal of Haitian Studies. The author of From Douglass to Duvalier: U.S. African Americans, Haiti and Pan-Americanism, 1870-1964 (University Press of Florida, 2010), Professor Polyné was the recipient of the 2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Schomburg Scholar-in-Residence Fellowship and a 2005 University of Rochester Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Professor Polyné’s Gallatin courses include “Consuming the Caribbean”; “Black Intellectual Thought in the Atlantic World”; “Sports, Race, and Politics”; and “Zombies: History, Culture and Fear in the Americas.” Polyné edited The Idea of Haiti: Rethinking Crisis and Development (University of Minnesota Press, 2013) and co-edited the more recent The Haiti Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Duke University Press, 2020).