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Michaeline A. Crichlow

Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies
African & African American Studies
Box 90252, Durham, NC 27708-0252
124 Campus Drive, 243 Friedl Bldg., Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Aimé Césaire and Negritude · December 1, 2013 Lecture Smith Warehouse, Duke University
Islands, Images, Imaginaries · August 1, 2013 Lecture UC Irvine California
Global Affirmative Action in a Neoliberal Age · December 1, 2012 Lecture
Caribbean Boat People · October 17, 2012 Lecture University of Toronto, Toronto Canada.
“From Fanon to Wynter in the Journey Towards the Human-The Liminal, The Hauntological and the Elusive Dream of Man: (Un)thinking the Political in the Socio-genetics of Place,” · July 20, 2012 Lecture Caribbean Philosophical Assoc. St. Augustine, Trinidad
“Land Labor and Identity in the Dominican Republic: Notes on a Politics of Place," · May 10, 2012 Lecture Kingston Jamaica
“Trans-oceanic Fictions of (Im)Mobility,”Caribbean Boat People · May 5, 2012 Lecture UCLA-Mellon symposium
“Making Waves: (Dis)placements, Entanglements, Movements” · April 5, 2012 Lecture UCLA-Mellon symposium
“Negotiating Caribbean Freedom: Situating “Development’s Agrarian Culture” in the ‘will to improve’ and the demand for authenticity.” · March 1, 2012 Lecture Kingston, Jamaica
“Identifying Freedom: Implications for Civic Engagement · January 19, 2012 Lecture Civic Engagement, Duke University
Colloquium, “Our America”: “Creolization, Americanity and America in the World System?” · April 1, 2011 Lecture New York University
Invited Book discussion (Globalization and the Post-creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation) discussion · March 1, 2011 Lecture University of Havana, Cuba
Agrarian Issues in the Caribbean, from the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute for Social and Economic Research (SALISES 50/50 Research Project), · February 1, 2011 Lecture Jamaica based discussion, Skyped in from Duke University
Small States and Citizens Struggling for Space: Agricultural Liberalization, ‘Democratic Deficits’ and the Rhetoric of Development · November 26, 2010 Lecture University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur
Roundtable discussion of my book Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination, at Antillanité, Créolité, Littérature Monde Colloquium · November 25, 2010 Lecture UWI, Cave Hill, Barbados
Rethinking Migration · November 17, 2010 Lecture International Migration Institute, Oxford University, Oxford, England
Gens Anglaises,” Diasporic Movements: Remixing the World with Post-Creole Imaginations,” · November 1, 2010 Lecture University of Oxford, England
“Small States and Citizens Struggling for Space: Agricultural Liberalization, ‘Democratic Deficits’ and the Rhetoric of Development presentation · November 1, 2010 Lecture Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Making Waves · June 18, 2010 Lecture Kingston Jamaica
“Power and Its Subjects: ‘Good’ Governance Dilemmas under Contemporary Globalization Processes · May 24, 2010 Lecture St. Peter, Barbados
Making Waves: (Dis)Placements, Entanglements, Mo(ve)ments,” De-colonial Practices, Political Space, and Digital Culture · May 4, 2010 Lecture University of California, Riverside
Creolization and the Politics of Place · April 2, 2010 Lecture New Orleans,
Education, Development Freedom- · February 26, 2010 Lecture Global Humanities Center, Friedl Bldg. Duke University
Caribbean Fictions: Haiti and the Ghosts of Hegemony · February 11, 2010 Lecture Franklin Center, Duke University
Homing Modern Freedoms - Creole Time on the Move · December 15, 2009 Lecture Caribbean Philosophical Association, Coral Gables, Miami
The European Left and the Post-Creole Imaginary · November 18, 2009 Lecture 243 Friedl, Duke Universtiy
Rethinking the Mangrove · October 15, 2009 Lecture University of Mayaguez, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
RE-THINKING DEVELOPMENT, GLOBALIZATION AND POWER – ‘CREOLIZATION’ ON THE MOVE · June 5, 2009 Lecture Caribbean Studies Association, Kingston, Jamaica
Small States and Citizens Struggling for Space: Agricultural Liberalization, ‘Democratic Deficits’ and the Rhetoric of Development · April 1, 2008 Lecture Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina
Spheres of Development, Spaces of Hope: Beyond the Plantation Peasant Binary · April 1, 2008 Lecture Binghamton, New York
Latin American and Caribbean Symposium · February 18, 2008 Lecture Franklin Center, Duke University
Afro Latino Workgroup · February 18, 2008 Lecture Franklin Center, Duke University

Outreach & Engaged Scholarship


Editor - Sage Journal, Cultural Dynamics: Insurgent Scholarship on Culture, Politics and Power · 2013 - 2018 Editorial Activities
Editor - Center for African and African-American Research newsletter Spring · 2010 - 2015 Editorial Activities
Co-director - Caribbean studies in an era of Globalization · 2009 - 2011 Community Outreach Community Service
Editor - ISER NEWS: Newsletter of the Institute of Social and Economic Research · 1989 - 1990 Editorial Activities University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Republic of Trinidad and Tobago newsletter of the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies

Service to the Profession


Global Affirmative Action in an Age of Neoliberalism · November 2012 Event/Organization Administration
Social and Economic Studies · February 14, 2011 Editorial Activities
co-ordinator reading group: China in Africa · 2011 - 2012 Editorial Activities
Chair of organizing committee (principal organizer) : Conference organized: Human Traffic: Past and Present · 2011 Editorial Activities Duke University