{"id":175433,"date":"2010-01-13T15:01:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T20:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.utk.edu\/tntoday\/?p=18211"},"modified":"2010-01-13T15:01:56","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T20:01:56","slug":"bertin-louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/175433","title":{"rendered":"Bertin Louis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bertin Louis<\/strong><br \/>\nLecturer<br \/>\nAfricana Studies<\/p>\n<p><strong>Expertise:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bertin Louis Jr. can discuss the social and economic impacts of the 2010 earthquake and 2008 hurricanes that struck Haiti, and he can place those natural disasters within their short-term and long-term historical contexts.<\/p>\n<p>A cultural anthropologist, Louis&#8217; research interests include cultural identity, the African diaspora, gender, globalization, Haitian Protestantism, transnationalism and diversity in higher education. He has lectured on these topics in Europe, the Caribbean, Southern Africa and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, he became an Inaugural Member of the Washington University Chapter of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yale.edu\/graduateschool\/diversity\/bouchet.html\">Bouchet   Graduate Honor Society at Yale University<\/a> . Some of his other most recent   awards are a Fulbright Award from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iie.org\/Content\/NavigationMenu\/Fulbright1\/Fulbright_Program.htm\">International   Institute of Education<\/a>, the National Dean\u2019s List Award, a Lambda Alpha Collegiate Honor Society for Anthropology Award , and the Washington University International and Area Studies Pre-Dissertation Research Grant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Expertise Categories:<\/strong> Cultural Identity | Haiti | African Diaspora<\/p>\n<h3>Contact Information<\/h3>\n<p>Email: blouis2@utk.edu<br \/>\nPhone: 865-974-2139<br \/>\nWeb: <a href=\"http:\/\/web.utk.edu\/~africana\/people\/louis.htm\">http:\/\/web.utk.edu\/~africana\/people\/louis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bertin Louis Lecturer Africana Studies Expertise: Bertin Louis Jr. can discuss the social and economic impacts of the 2010 earthquake and 2008 hurricanes that struck Haiti, and he can place those natural disasters within their short-term and long-term historical contexts. A cultural anthropologist, Louis&#8217; research interests include cultural identity, the African diaspora, gender, globalization, Haitian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":332,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}