title: Claudine Michel
text: # Claudine Michel
  
  Claudine Michel is the editor of the Journal of Haitian Studies and a professor emerita of Black studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Michel is the Director of the UCSB Center for Black Studies Research. She is a Haitian native and practitioner of Haitian Vodou, and has done much in the field of Haitian studies.
  
  Michel believes that aid after the 2010 Haiti earthquake is too top-to-bottom, resulting in Haiti "losing [its] soul".
  
  ## Works
  
  * Etude Comparative des Théories du Dévelopement de l'Enfant (DeBoeck/Université, Bruxelles/Paris, 1994). Co-author.
  * Aspects Moraux et Educatifs du Vodou Haitien (Le Natal, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1995)
  * Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality (Indiana University Press, 2006). Co-author.
  * Vodou in Haitian Life and Culture: Invisible Powers" (2006). Written by Patrick Bellegarde-Smith, edited by Michel.
  * Offerings: Continuity and Transformation in Haitian Vodou (Oxford Press)
  
  ## Awards and honors
  
  The Claudine Michel Fund at UC Santa Barbara was created in her honor, and awards "diverse faculty, staff and/or students".
  
  Michel received the Haitian Studies Association Service Award in 2008, particularly for her work as editor of the Journal of Haitian Studies.
  
  