Event

Brandon Byrd, Vanderbilt University
“Out of Egypt: Haitian Princesses, Abyssinian Priests, and the Politics of Afro-Reinvention.”

Please read the pre-circulated paper linked here.

4:30pm | Virtual-https://upenn.zoom.us/j/93302185348

Dr. Brandon R. Byrd is a historian of Black intellectual, cultural, and social history and an assistant professor in the Department of History at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of The Black Republic: African Americans and the Fate of Haiti. Byrd’s scholarship has appeared in numerous publications, including Slavery and Abolition and The Journal of African American History. His research has also been featured in several popular outlets, including GQ, The Washington Post, and The Chronicle Review. In addition to his teaching and scholarship, Byrd is also a co-editor of the Black Lives and Liberation series published by Vanderbilt University Press.