Jana Evans Braziel

Biography

Jana Braziel has scholarly and pedagogical interests in American hemispheric literatures and cultures, Caribbean studies, Haitian studies, and the intersections of race, gender, sexuality diaspora, transnational activism, and globalization. Braziel is also engaged in issues of poverty, inequality, and human rights.

Education

• Ph.D., University of Massachusetts
• M.A., University of Georgia
• B.A., University of Georgia

Teaching

Dr. Braziel's scholarly and pedagogical interests are American hemispheric literatures and cultures, Caribbean studies, Haitian studies, and the intersections of diaspora, transnational activism, and globalization, as well as intersectional analyses of poverty, inequality, and human rights.

Braziel held the Five College Post-Doctoral Fellowship in the Center for Crossroads in the Study of the Americas (CISA) and was Visiting Assistant Professor of Black Studies and English at Amherst College. Before joining the faculty at Miami University, Braziel was Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Cincinnati.

Publications

Books

• Caribbean and Latinx Street Art in Miami. Routledge, 2024.
• Street Art and Activism in the Greater Caribbean: Impossible States, Virtual Publics. Routledge, 2022.
• “Riding with Death”: Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince. UP of Mississippi, 2017.
• Duvalier's Ghosts: Race, Diaspora, and U.S. Imperialism in Haitian Literatures. UP of Florida, 2010.
• Caribbean Genesis: Jamaica Kincaid and the Writing of New Worlds. State University of New York Press, 2009.
• Diaspora: An Introduction. Blackwell/Wiley, 2008. 
• Artists, Performers, and Black Masculinity in the Haitian Diaspora. Indiana University Press, 2008.

Co-Edited Books

• The Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat (with Nadège Clitandre). Bloomsbury Publishers, 2021.  
• After the Berlin Wall: Germany and Beyond (with Katharina Gerstenberger). Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
• Erasing Public Memory: Race, Aesthetics, and Cultural Amnesia in the Americas (with J. Young). Mercer, 2007. 
• Race and the Foundations of Knowledge: Cultural Amnesia in the Academy (with Joseph Young). UP of Illinois,
• 2005. 2006 Nomination for the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award.
• Theorizing Diaspora: A Reader (with Anita Mannur). UK: Blackwell Publishers, 2003.
• Bodies Out of Bounds: Fatness and Transgression (with Katie LeBesco). University of California Press, 2001.