MARC PROU, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Curriculum Vitae (pdf file)
BOOKS
2002 Spoken Haitian Creole for Intermediate learners: Kreyòl Pale Kreyòl Konprann.
Coconut Creek, FL: Educavision Press. ISBN: 1-58432-137-7.
Haitian Creole for Health Care Professionals, co-edited with Dr. Mel Schorin, Coconut Creek, Florida: Educavision Press (forthcoming).
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
“Minimizing Risks in Study Abroad: Whose Responsibility?” (co-author: Tristram O’Keefe) in CUSAC,on-line article. (http://www.uwi.edu/riskandresponsibility/downloads/docs/
presentation_marc_prou.doc.)
“Haitian-Americans,” in John Buenker and Lorman A. Ratner (Eds.), Multiculturalism in the United States: A Comparative Guide to Acculturation and Ethnicity (Greenwood Press, 2005), 173-202.
“Black, Mulatto and Light Skin: Reinterpreting Race, Ethnicity and Class in Caribbean Diasporic Communities,” in Jemadari Kamara & T. Vander Meer (Eds.), State of the Race, Creating our 21st Century: Where Do We Go From Here? (Diaspora Press, 2004), 229-251.
“Leçons Tirées dans l’Elaboration du Projet d’Education et de Développement Local à Thomonde, Haiti,” in Ariel Azael and Narcisse Fièvre (Eds.), Décentralisation et Developpement Local: Les Enjeux Haitiens (P-au-P, Haiti: Imprimerie Le Natal, 1998), 30-43.
“Haitian Education under Siege: Democratization, National Development and Social Reconstruction,” in Robert I. Rotberg (Eds.), Haiti Renewed: Political and Economic Prospects (Brookings Institute Publications, 1997), 215-228.
BOOK REVIEW ESSAYS AND ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES
“Haitian-Creole” Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History: The Black Experience in the Americas. (Eds.) Jeff Lehman. Macmillan Reference USA, (imprint of Gale). 2nd Edition, December 2005.
Review of: Jacques Stephen Alexis, General Sun, My Brother, trans. Carrol Coates, University Press of Virginia, 1999, in Journal of Haitian Studies 8, 2:183-5 (2002).
Review of: Charles Arthur, Haiti: A guide to the People, Politics and Culture, (2002). New York: Interlink Books, in Wadabagei Journal 5, 2: 133-41 (summer/fall 2002).
Review of: Michel Laguerre The Military and Society in Haiti (1993). Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, in Haiti Perspectives Journal, 3: 3-5 (1993).
Review of: Frank Etienne, Pelen Tèt (1978), in Perspectives, 3: 7-9 (February 1979,) Boston, MA.
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES
2005. “Haiti’s Condemnation: History and Culture at the Crossroads,” Latin American Research Review, Vol. 40, No.3, October 2005 pp.191-201.
2001. “El Significado de la Muerte in Vodun” [The Significance of Death in Haitian Vodun Rituals.] Del Caribe, 36:36-42.
2000. “Haitian-Creole Ideophones: An Exploratory Analysis” Journal of Haitian Studies, 5/6: 96-112.
1998. “Education for Development,” Consensus and Nation Building (Edited by Edwidge Balutansky and A. Cantave, in Haitian Studies Report Vol 3, no 2: 21-24.
1990. “Haitian Educational Policies: Suggestions for Change and Political Implications,” Haitian Studies Newsletter 1:1-4.
TECHNICAL REPORTS
“Process Outcome Evaluation of the Haitian Media, and Faith-based Leaders,” Haitian Studies Report, 30 pp., (June 2003).
“Process Evaluation of the CAPAB Project: Program Planning-Year One,” Haitian Studies Report, 12 pages, (March 2001).
“HIV/AIDS Education in the Haitian Faith-based Community: An Evaluation of CCHER’s Community Strength 2000 Project,” Haitian Studies Report, 54 pp., (July 2000).
“An Evaluation of the Ninth Annual Haitian Youth Congress,” Haitian Studies Report,5 (Prepared for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health), 20 pp, (June 2000).
“Mobilizing Haitian Youth Collaborative: An Evaluative Report,” Haitian Studies Report 61pp. (October 1999).
“Education and Development Project Needs Assessment: Thomonde, Haiti,” co-authored with Carole B. Joseph Haitian Studies Report, 2, 39 pp.
(November 1997)
“Haitian Creole Language Arts Curriculum,” Chapter 636 Grant, Boston Public Schools, June 1985.
“Les Ecoles Publiques de Boston: Un Panorama d’Informations pour les Parents Haitiens,” co-authored with Anne Crane and Gary Daphnis. An information booklet for parents; published under a mini-grant from Boston State College, 18 pp (December 1979).
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
“A Glimmer of Hope for Resolution of Haiti’s Political Crisis” in Boston Haitian Reporter, Vol. 1, No 2, June 2001, p10.
