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MacDowell Residency Fellow (2024) • Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship (2023) • Excellence in Teaching Award, UCSC (2021-2022) • Connecticut Book Award for Poetry (2018) • AAA Anthropology in Media Award (2018) • Haitian Studies Association Excellence in Scholarship Award (2015) • Wesleyan University Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching (2015)
Selected publications Books •
A Call to Rasanblaj: Black Feminist Futures and Ethnographic Aesthetics (2023) •
Because When God Is Too Busy: Haiti, me & THE WORLD (2017) •
Why Haiti Needs New Narratives: A Post-Quake Chronicle (2015) •
Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importers, a Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica (2007)
Editor • “Caribbean Rasanblaj.” Double issue of
e-misférica--NYU’s Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics. 2015, vol 12, no 1&2, May. Online Journal. https://hemisphericinstitute.org/en/emisferica-121-caribbean-rasanblaj.html • “Pawol Fanm Sou Douz Janvye” (Women’s Words on January 12th). A collection of women’s stories of Haiti’s 2010 earthquake and its aftermath in the Archives section of Meridians Journal of Feminism, Race and Transnationalism. January 2012, Introduction pp 91-98, article pp141-143. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/meridians.11.1.91?seq=1
Journals and Art Catalogs • “Bwapin Rasanblaj: A Curated Conversation” Cover, art essay and interview with Lyndon K. Gill. Special issue on Autotheory/Autoethnography. Feminist Studies journal. 2023, Volume 49, No 1-2, December. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/915912 • “Constant’s Consort and Marvelous Work” Interview Essay in Exhibition catalog, Fowler Museum. Katherine Smith, Jerry Philogene, editors. Los Angeles: University of California Press. 2023, pp 49-61. https://fowler.ucla.edu/product/myrlande-constant-work-radiance/ • "Nou La: Didier William's Spaciousness" Sugarcane Art Magazine, December 2022. https://sugarcanemag.com/2022/11/nou-la-didier-williams-spaciousness-by-gina-athena-ulysse/ • “Calabash/Kalbas/Kwi: Personal Journey of Diasporic Returns” Etnográfica Special 25th Year Anniversary Issue, December 2022. https://journals.openedition.org/etnografica/12690 • “A Priestess’s Salutation: A Study in Movement” Cover and photo essay in honor of Rachel Beauvoir Dominique with Trilingual translation. Frontiers Journal. 2022, Volume 43, Issue 3, December. • “Avant-Garde Rasanblaj: Meditations on Pòtoprens” in Pòtoprens: The Urban Artists of Port-au-Prince. Exhibition catalog, PioneerWorks Leah Gordon and Joshua Jelly-Shapiro, editors. Brooklyn, New York: Pioneer Works. 2022, pp 292-299. https://pioneerworks.org/broadcast/gina-athena-ulysse-potoprens • “Skin Castles: Some Not so Random Notes on Performing a Taxonomy of Rages against Empire” in Special Issue: Exhibiting the Experience of Empire: Decolonizing Objects, Images, Materials and Words. Guest Editors: John Giblin, Imma Ramos and Nikki Grout. Third Text: Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art and Culture. July-September 2019 no 159-160 pp 521-540. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09528822.2019.1654780 • “Why Rasanblaj. Why Now?: New Salutations to the Four Cardinal Points in Haitian Studies” in Journal of Haitian Studies. 2017, vol 23, no 2, pp 58-80. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/259/article/688084 • Pwen #1,4, 7, 9, 11, 14 & 16 of “VooDooDoll: What if Haiti Were a Woman.” Transition Magazine, Special Haiti issue. Editors: Laurent Dubois and Kaiama Glover. 2013, June, issue 111, pp 104-111. https://transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/issues/issue-111/ • “The Spirits in My Mother’s Head, excerpts from Loving Haiti, Loving Vodou” in PoetryMemoirStory. Special Issue on Black Women Writers. Honoree Jeffers, editor. 2008, no 8, pp 113-119. • “Papa, Patriarchy and Power: Snapshots of a Good Haitian Girl, Feminism and Dyasporic Dreams” in Journal of Haitian Studies. 2006, vol 12, no 1, pp 24-47. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41716760?seq=1 • “Conquering Duppies in Kingston: Miss Tiny and Me, Fieldwork Conflicts and Being Loved and Rescued” in Anthropology and Humanism. 2002, vol 27, no 1, pp 10-26. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1525/anhu.2002.27.1.10 == External links ==