New York University

Millery Polyné's teaching and research interests highlight the history of U.S. African American and Afro-Caribbean/Afro-Latino cultural, political, and economic initiatives in the 19th and 20th centuries; coloniality in the Americas; Caribbean dance; and the intersections of race, sports, and urban memory. He has published articles in journals such as Caribbean Studies, Journal of Haitian Studies, Wadabagei, and The Black Scholar. Presently, he is completing his first book, From Douglass to Duvalier: U.S. African Americans in Haitian Affairs, 1870-1964 (University Press of Florida). A historian by training, Professor Polyné's interests also lie in poetry and film. He is a 2003 recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Poetry Fellowship. The NYFA grant funded blacks cropped*crop blacks, a short experimental film that highlights the struggles and resilience of U.S. African American tobacco farmers in North Carolina. The film premiered at the Roxbury Film Festival and has also been screened at Anthology Film Archives, the Boston Public Library, and the University of Rochester, where he was awarded the Frederick Douglass Postdoctoral Fellowship (2005). Professor Polyné's Gallatin courses include "Consuming the Caribbean"; "Black Intellectual Thought in the Atlantic World"; "Hemispheric Imaginings: Race, Ideology, and Foreign Policy in the Americas"; and "Sports, Race, and Politics."