Scientific Advisory Board

This consultative body contributes to defining strategic orientations. It is composed of national and international experts from the scientific community, selected from the museum world, academia, and among individuals committed to the future of Haiti, its heritage, and artistic creation.

André DELPUECH


General Curator of Heritage

Director of Musée de l’Homme du Museum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris

Anthony BOGUES BARRYMORE

Writer, researcher, curator, Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice

Professor of African Studies, African Art and the African Diaspora and Asa Messer
Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory, University of Brown, Rhode Island

Honorary Professor, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Yolanda WOOD


Researcher, art historian and critic

Founder of the Chair of Caribbean Art History, University of Havana

Director, Center for Caribbean Studies, Casa de Las Americas, Cuba

Visiting Professor at the University of Mexico

Edwidge DANTICAT

Haitian-American writer

Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters

MacArthur Foundation Laureate, 2009

Ford Foundation The Art of Change Laureate, 2008

Winner of the Neustadt International Prize, 2018

St. Louis Literary Award Winner, 2019

Françoise DALEX

Head of Master II in Documentation and Collections Management at the École du Louvre

Head of the Dominique Vivant Denon Resource Center, Musée du Louvre, Paris

Laurent DUBOIS

Professor of Romance Studies, Founder and Director of the Forum for Scholars & Publics, Université de Duke, Durham

Specialist in the history and culture of the Atlantic world, with a focus on the Caribbean, particularly Haiti

Lorraine MANGONÈS

Executive Director, Fondation Connaissance et Liberté / Fondasyon Konesans Ak Libète (FOKAL)

Philippe-Loïc JACOB

Founding President of the Fondation pour le Rayonnement de l’Art Haïtien under the aegis of the Fondation de France

Chairman of the Board, Citeo

Veerle POUPEYE

Belgo-Jamaican, art historian, curator, researcher, cultural administrator and critic specializing in Caribbean arts and visual culture