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Gina Athena Ulysse
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| Born | 1966 Pétion-ville, Haiti
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| Alma mater | Upsala College BA; University of Michigan MA, PHD |
| Thesis | Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importing, A Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica (2007) |
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| Institutions | Wesleyan University; UC Santa Cruz |
| Main interests | Anthropology, women's studies |
Gina Athena Ulysse is a Haitian-American anthropologist, feminist, poet, performance artist and activist. Professor Ulysse earned her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Michigan. She worked as a professor of anthropology at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, before joining the Feminist Studies department at UC Santa Cruz in fall 2020. Ulysse is most known for her 2015 book Why Haiti Needs New Narratives: A Post-Quake Chronicle.
She is a feminist artist-anthropologist-activist, and self-described Post-Zora Interventionist. An interdisciplinary methodologist, her research interests culminate at the intersections of geopolitics, historical representations and the dailiness of Black diasporic conditions.
Education
Ulysse holds a BA from Upsala College, an MA from University of Michigan, and a PHD from University of Michigan.
Awards
In 2010, she was awarded the Ronald C. Foreman Jr. Lecture Award for Academic Excellence and Social Responsibility by the African-American Studies Program at University of Florida. In 2015, she was the recipient of Wesleyan's Binzwanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching, as well as the Haitian Studies Association's (HSA) Excellence in Scholarship awards. In 2018, for recognition of her various works in the public sphere, she was awarded the Anthropology in the Media Award (AIME) by the American Anthropological Association.
