Elizabeth McAlister

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The Bad Boy Makes Good, Foreign Policy (2011)

What Michel "Sweet Micky" Martelly, Haiti's pop star turned president, learned from a lifetime in...

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Roundtable: Haitian Music (Part 2) "What Does Revolution Sound Like?", The New Yorker (2009)

Five writers continue their conversation about music and history in Haiti for The New Yorker.

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Roundtable: Haitian Music (Part 1), The New Yorker (2009)

Five writers discuss music and history in Haiti for The New Yorker.

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The Lucky Ones: A Mother-Daughter Story of Love and War (with Lovely Nicolas), Oxygen.com (2000)

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Haiti and the Unseen World, Social Science Research Council (2010)

The religious imagery of Vodou points to the covert and often illegal world of deal...

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Poster Child (with Lovely Nicolas) (2010)

Lovely Nicolas reflects on being chosen as a Unicef poster girl in a campaign to...

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Obama, Zombies, and Black Male Messiahs, In Media Res (2009)

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Rara Festivals in Haiti and New York: A learning website (2007)

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A Crisis of Faith and Meaning: Understanding the Haiti Earthquake, Interfaith Voices (2010)

This radio segment explores how the three largest religious groups in Haiti, Catholics, Pentecostals, and...

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Afropop Worldwide Interview with Elizabeth McAlister (2007)

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Music and the Story of Haiti, Afropop Worldwide (2007)

This 6-minute Afropop Worldwide radio essay explores how music formed history and identity in Haiti,...

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Listening for Geographies: Music as Sonic Compass Pointing Towards African and Christian Diasporic Horizons in the Caribbean, Geographies of the Haitian Diaspora (2011)

Can musical sounds reveal history, or collective identity, or new notions of geography, in different...

From the Rubble to the Telethon: Music, Religion, and the Haiti Quake, Haiti Rising: Haitian History, Culture and the Earthquake of 2010 (2010)

Religion in Post-Earthquake Haiti (with Leslie G. Desmangles), Haiti Rising: Haitian History, Culture and the Earthquake of 2010 (2010)

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Catholic, Vodou, and Protestant: Being Haitian, Becoming American (with Karen Richman), Immigration and Religion in America: Comparative and Historical Perspectives (2009)

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Rara as Popular Army: Hierarchy, Militarism, and Warfare, Perspectives on the Caribbean: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation (2009)

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The Jew in the Haitian Imagination: A Popular History of Anti-Judaism and Proto-Racism, Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas (2004)

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The Rite of Baptism in Haitian Vodou, Religions of the United States in Practice (2001)

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Love, Sex, and Gender Embodied: The Spirits of Hatian Vodou, Love, Sex, and Gender in the World Religions (2000)

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The Madonna of 115th Street Revisited: Vodou and Haitian Catholicism in the Age of Transnationalism, Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration (1998)

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A Sorcerer's Bottle: The Art of Magic in Haiti, Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou (1995)

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From Slave Revolt to a Blood Pact with Satan: The Evangelical Rewriting of Haitian History, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (2012)

Enslaved Africans and Creoles in the French colony of Saint-Domingue are said to have gathered...

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Slaves, Cannibals, and Infected Hyper-Whites: The Race and Religion of Zombies, Anthropological Quarterly (2012)

The first decade of the new millennium saw renewed interest in popular culture featuring zombies....

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Globalization and the Religious Production of Space, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (2005)

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Teaching September 11th, The Council of Societies for the Study of Religion: Bulletin (2001)

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Sacred Stories from the Haitian Diaspora: A Collective Biography of Seven Vodou Priestesses in New York City, Journal of Caribbean Studies (1993)

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En Haiti, la musique prend le pouvoir, Slate Afrique (2011)

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Amour, sexe et genre incarnés : les esprits du vaudou haïtien, Africultures (2004)

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SelectedWorks of Elizabeth McAlister

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Popular Press

The Bad Boy Makes Good, Foreign Policy (2011)

Perspectives on Haiti's Earthquake, New York Times (2010)

Why Does Haiti Suffer so Much?, CNN.com (2010)

Vodou's View of the Quake, Washington Post (2010)

Devil's Logic: Behind Pat Robertson's Haitian Blame Game, Forbes.com (2010)

Roundtable: Haitian Music (Part 2) "What Does Revolution Sound Like?", The New Yorker (2009)

Roundtable: Haitian Music (Part 1), The New Yorker (2009)

The Lucky Ones: A Mother-Daughter Story of Love and War (with Lovely Nicolas), Oxygen.com (2000)

Online Scholarly Venues

Haiti and the Unseen World, Social Science Research Council (2010)

Poster Child (with Lovely Nicolas) (2010)

Obama, Zombies, and Black Male Messiahs, In Media Res (2009)

Rara Festivals in Haiti and New York: A learning website (2007)

Radio

A Crisis of Faith and Meaning: Understanding the Haiti Earthquake, Interfaith Voices (2010)

Afropop Worldwide Interview with Elizabeth McAlister (2007)

Music and the Story of Haiti, Afropop Worldwide (2007)

Chapters in Edited Volumes

Listening for Geographies: Music as Sonic Compass Pointing Towards African and Christian Diasporic Horizons in the Caribbean, Geographies of the Haitian Diaspora (2011)

From the Rubble to the Telethon: Music, Religion, and the Haiti Quake, Haiti Rising: Haitian History, Culture and the Earthquake of 2010 (2010)

Religion in Post-Earthquake Haiti (with Leslie G. Desmangles), Haiti Rising: Haitian History, Culture and the Earthquake of 2010 (2010)

Catholic, Vodou, and Protestant: Being Haitian, Becoming American (with Karen Richman), Immigration and Religion in America: Comparative and Historical Perspectives (2009)

Rara as Popular Army: Hierarchy, Militarism, and Warfare, Perspectives on the Caribbean: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation (2009)

The Jew in the Haitian Imagination: A Popular History of Anti-Judaism and Proto-Racism, Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas (2004)

The Rite of Baptism in Haitian Vodou, Religions of the United States in Practice (2001)

Love, Sex, and Gender Embodied: The Spirits of Hatian Vodou, Love, Sex, and Gender in the World Religions (2000)

The Madonna of 115th Street Revisited: Vodou and Haitian Catholicism in the Age of Transnationalism, Gatherings in Diaspora: Religious Communities and the New Immigration (1998)

A Sorcerer's Bottle: The Art of Magic in Haiti, Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou (1995)

Articles in Journals

From Slave Revolt to a Blood Pact with Satan: The Evangelical Rewriting of Haitian History, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses (2012)

Slaves, Cannibals, and Infected Hyper-Whites: The Race and Religion of Zombies, Anthropological Quarterly (2012)

Globalization and the Religious Production of Space, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (2005)

Teaching September 11th, The Council of Societies for the Study of Religion: Bulletin (2001)

Sacred Stories from the Haitian Diaspora: A Collective Biography of Seven Vodou Priestesses in New York City, Journal of Caribbean Studies (1993)

Articles in French

En Haiti, la musique prend le pouvoir, Slate Afrique (2011)

Amour, sexe et genre incarnés : les esprits du vaudou haïtien, Africultures (2004)

Voyage autour d'une bouteille de sorcier, Vaudou (2003)

Books

Race, Nation and Religion in the Americas (2004)

Rara! Vodou, Power and Performance in Haiti and its Diaspora (2002)