McAlister on Haiti Earthquake

“McAlister writings on Haiti Earthquake” Social Science Research Council

“Why does Haiti suffer so much?” CNN.com

“Devil’s Logic: Behind Pat Roberton’s Haitian Blame Game” Forbes.com

“Voodoo View of the Quake” Washington Post On Faith

“Haiti and the unseen world” Social Science Research Council

“Understanding the Haiti Earthquake:  A Crisis of Faith and Meaning” Interfaith Radio

“Voodoo Brings Solace to Grieving Haitians” NPR All Things Considered

“Interview on Vodou in Haiti” New York Times Interactive

“Cover Art: Resurrection of the dead” New Yorker

“Haiti’s Musical Traditions, Past and Present” The Takeaway/WNYC Radio

“Keith and Gail talk with Elizabeth McAlister about Haiti” Fox Radio

“Haiti, History, and Music” Afropop Worldwide, PRI

“Liza McAlister video on music and the Haiti earthquake” Afropop Worldwide

Profile

Elizabeth McAlister is Associate Professor of Religion, and also teaches in American Studies and African American Studies. She earned her Ph.D. in 1995 from Yale in American Studies with expertise in Afro-Caribbean religions. Her first book is Rara! Vodou, Power, and Performance in Haiti and its Diaspora (University of California Press, 2002). Her second book is a volume co-edited with Henry Goldschmidt that theorizes race and religion as linked constructs: Race, Nation, and Religion in the Americas (Oxford University Press, 2004).

McAlister has published Rara, numerous articles and book chapters and produced three compilations of Afro-Haitian religious music: Rhythms of Rapture (Smithsonian Folkways, 1995), Angels in the Mirror, and the CD Rara that accompanies her first book.

In her efforts to make Afro-Caribbean religions better understood by the American public, McAlister has been interviewed by Terri Gross on “Fresh Air,” profiled in the New York Times, and consulted for projects such as “Africans in America” for PBS, the Learning Channel, and for Afropop on Public Radio International.

McAlister is currently writing on musical artist Wyclef Jean, on Zombies in American culture, and on the interactions between American evangelicals and the “demonically entrenched” (their term) nation of Haiti.