On Sunday, March 15 at 2pm in KTM&HC's Garden House, Dr. Marlene Daut, professor of French and African American Studies at Yale University, will discuss her research on the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804), including its connections to the Declaration of Independence (1776). 

Admission is free for all.

Marlene L. Daut is an author, scholar, editor, and professor. Her books include the award-winning The First and Last King of Haiti (2025), about the Haitian revolutionary-turned-monarch General Henry Christophe. Her articles on Haitian history and culture have appeared in over a dozen magazines, newspapers, and journals including, The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Essence, The Nation, and the LA Review of Books. She has won several awards, grants, and fellowships for her contributions to historical and cultural understandings of the Caribbean, notably from the Ford Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Haitian Studies Association, the Robert Silvers Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.