Nathalie Frederick Pierre : Moderator
Nathalie Frédéric Pierre is an assistant professor at the university where she earned a BA in both English and History. Teaching at Howard University allows her to train the next generation of leaders about the history of the African diaspora. Dr. Pierre earned her Ph.D in the History of the African diaspora at NYU, and her research focuses on revolution, sovereignty, and global commerce reliant on enslaved labor. Her upcoming book, “The Vessel of Independence Must Save Itself” studies the political and economic decisions Haitian statesmen made in an Atlantic world hostile to Black sovereignty.
She is winner of a 2023 National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship, a former post-doctoral fellow at CUNY’s Institute for Research on the African diaspora, and a pre doctoral fellow in the department of Black Studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara. Dr. Pierre’s most recent publication, titled “Haiti’s Blueprints of Black Sovereignty,” reveals what 220 years of Haitian independence means for how we narrate the history of abolition and the development of global human rights. Outside of the academy, Dr. Pierre served as board chairwoman of the Flanbwayan Haitian Literacy Project from 2011 - 2017. This organization’s insistence on promoting alphabetical and political literacy builds on her mother’s legacy of service in Brooklyn’s Haitian community. Continue...