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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
Spheres of Development, Spaces of Hope: Beyond the Plantation Peasant Binary · April 1, 2008 Lecture Binghamton, New York
Small States and Citizens Struggling for Space: Agricultural Liberalization, ‘Democratic Deficits’ and the Rhetoric of Development · April 1, 2008 Lecture Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina
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