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Department of Black Studies
Room 3721 South Hall
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3150
Tel: (805) 893-4712 / Fax (805) 893-3597
E-mail: michel@blackstudies.ucsb.edu |
Professor
in the Department of Black Studies, received her BA in early
childhood education from the Université d'Etat d'Haiti
and a MA and Ph.D. in International Education from the University
of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Michel is researching the
process of moral development among African-American women
and youth. Other research interests include multicultural
education, children's literature, educational television and
religion. She is the author of Aspects Moraux et Educatifs
du Vodou Haitien ( Le Natal, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1995);
and co-author of Etude Comparative des Théories
du Développement de l'Enfant (DeBoeck/Université, Bruxelles/Paris,
1994). Her book Offerings: Contintuity and Transformation
in Haitian Vodou is forthcoming with Oxford University
Press. She is also co-editor of Black Studies: Current
Issues, Enduring Questions (2001, Kendall/Hunt) and of
Spirit, Myth and Reality in Haitian Vodou (2003, in
press, Florida University Press). Dr. Michel served as Assistant
Dean, Undergraduate Academic Affairs, College of Letters and
Science from 1996-1998 and as Director for the Center for
Black Studies from 1996-2002. She is currently editor of the
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