Dr. Cécile Accilien on Haiti, Film, and Global Perspectives

In this episode, Dean Stephanie Shonekan sits down with Dr. Cécile Accilien, professor of French and Francophone studies at the University of Maryland, to explore Haiti’s rich cultural, political and intellectual legacy. Dr. Accilien shares her personal journey from pre-med student to leading scholar of Haitian and Francophone African literatures, and discusses why understanding Haiti requires reckoning with colonialism, U.S. and French intervention and the nation’s enduring fight for independence.