猛料原创

Christopher Kovats-Bernat, PhD, is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Africana Studies and the inaugural Director of the Africana Studies program at 猛料原创. He is a cultural anthropologist and Africana Studies scholar whose work explores violence, poverty, resilience, and religion in the Caribbean鈥攑articularly in Haiti. Since 1994, he has conducted long-term ethnographic research in Port-au-Prince, where his scholarship has focused on the everyday lives of children navigating conditions of extreme precarity, as well as the role of Haitian Vodou in shaping community, identity, and survival.

He is the author of Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti (University Press of Florida, 2008) and Anfans Difisil: A Study of Imperiled Childhoods in Haiti (Kendall Hunt, 2022), along with numerous articles and book chapters on childhood, violence, and Haitian culture. His publications have been nominated for the Margaret Mead Award and the Victor Turner Prize, and his research has been supported by the National Geographic Society, Wenner-Gren Foundation, and other institutions.

Before joining 猛料原创, Chris taught at Shippensburg University, Gettysburg College, and The City University of New York. His teaching brings together anthropology, Black studies, and Caribbean studies, offering courses on Africana history and thought, cultural anthropology, and creole religions.

Beyond academia, Chris has worked as an applied anthropologist on human rights and humanitarian projects in Haiti, including post-earthquake relief efforts, advocacy for asylum-seeking minors, and as in-country director for a federal legal case addressing institutional abuse of Haitian street children.

• PhD, Anthropology 鈥� Temple University
• MA, Anthropology 鈥� Temple University
• BA, Philosophy 鈥� Muhlenberg College

• 2022 | Anfans Difisil: A Study of Imperiled Childhoods in Haiti. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishers.
• 2008 | Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida.
  • Nominated for The Margaret Mead Award and The Victor Turner Prize.

• 2019 | 鈥淲hen All Hell Breaks Loose: Rethinking Strategies for Fieldwork amid Gunplay, Catastrophe and Mayhem.鈥� In The Secret Life of Anthropologists: Lessons from the Field. Routledge.
• 2013 | 鈥淎fter the End of Days: Childhood, Catastrophe and the Violence of Everyday Life in Haiti.鈥� In Childhood, Youth and Violence in Global Contexts: Dialogues between Academics and Practitioners on Violence in Everyday Life. Edited by Karen Wells. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan.
• 2014 | 鈥淣o Balm in Gilead: Childhood, Suffering and Survival in Haiti.鈥� In Children in Crisis: Ethnographic Studies in International Contexts (Routledge Advances in Sociology). Edited by Manata Hashemi and Martin S谩nchez-Jankowski. New York: Routledge.
• 2014 | 鈥淭he Bullet is Certain: Armed Children and Gunplay on the Streets of Haiti.鈥� In Adolescent Identity: Evolutionary, Developmental and Cultural Perspectives. Edited by Bonnie Lynn Hewlett. New York: Routledge.

• 2010 | 鈥淗a茂ti Ch茅rie.鈥� In Childhood: A Journal of Global Child Research 17(3): 426-429.
• 2006 | 鈥淔actional Terror, Paramilitarism and Civil War in Haiti: The View from Port-au-Prince (1994-2004).鈥� Anthropologica. 48(1): 117-139.
• 2002 | 鈥淣egotiating Dangerous Fields: Pragmatic Strategies for Fieldwork amid Violence and Terror.鈥� American Anthropologist 104(1): 208-222.
• 2000 | 鈥淎nti-Gang, Arimaj, and the War on Street Children in Haiti.鈥� Peace Review 12(3): 415-421.