Haiti Lab: Student Projects
For details on undergraduate independent studies and courses offered by the Haiti Lab, please click here.
More project links and information coming soon!
2012 - 2013
Visions of Haiti
- Claire Payton and Eric Barstow, Vodou Archive
- Tameeka Norton, Advertising and Framing in Charitable Giving
- Taylor Bloom, http://sites.duke.edu/visionsofhaiti590/
- Florian Craan, Palais National, Haiti, History
- Christina Davidson, Documentaries of the Dominican Sugar Industry
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2011 - 2012
Discourses of Trauma in Haiti
- Fontasha Powell, Epigenetics of PTSD
- Liana Lau, Haitian Ethnopsychiatry
- Sedlin Mirtil, Resiliency Study in Haiti
- Sagar Mehta, Salil Saxena, Stephani Zakutansky, Putting Mental Health in Haiti on the Map: final presentation, spreadsheet with additional clinical initiatives, interactive map (click on "Visualize" tab, then select "Map")
Update (4/17/12): Liana Lau, Sedlin Mirtil, Stephani Zakutansky along with Annie McDonough presented their projects at a Wednesdays at the Center panel in March 2012. Click here for videos.
- Janani Arangan, Environmental Research on Cholera in the 19th C. Caribbean
- Zach Powell, Cholera Treatment in the 19th C. Caribbean
Slave Nations
(Research using the Marronnage in Saint-Dominge (Haiti): History, Memory, Technology database)
- Lori Jones, Slave Nations and Yaws
- Charmaine Mutucumarana, Slave Nations and Small Pox
- Samantha Tropper, Slave Nations and Cultures of Scarification
- Lauren Zalla, Breastfeeding in Colonial Saint-Domingue
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2010 - 2011
Allie Prater, The Politics of Reconstruction in Haiti
Representing Haiti (19th-century Caribbean Cholera) - Spring 2011
- [Link updated 2/13/13] Deborah Jenson, Victoria Szabo, Erin Cloninger, Paul Corbett, Matthew Hoyle, James Ivker, Edward Jernigan, Sedlin Mirtil, Alston Neville, Dhrusti Patel - 19th-century Caribbean Cholera TimeMap
- Edward Jernigan, Population Dynamics of Cholera
- Dhrusti Patel, Cholera in the Environment
Global Health Haitian Studies - Spring 2011
Rebuilding Women's Rights in Haiti - Fall 2010, Spring 2011
- Yoonhyun Allison Cho, The Situation of Gender Inequality in Haiti in a Global Context; Analysis of the Reported Increase in Post-Earthquake Sexual Violence in Haiti; United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Gender Inequality Index (GII) in Comparison with World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Gender Gap Index (GGI)
- Erin Cloninger, Women's Legal Rights in Haiti: US Government Involvement ~ Related: Interview with Erin Cloninger
- Ju Yon Kang, A Hidden Epidemic: Violence Against Women in Haiti
- Erin Sweeney, Haitian Law and Media on Women's Rights
- Women's Rights in Haiti: Comparisons with Nigeria, Cuba, Rwanda, and Dominican Republic
Kreyòl courses
Related: FHI blog interviews and stories on Haiti Lab student projects
