Nicole Willson is Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Institute for Black Atlantic Research at the University of Central Lancashire and is Principal Investigator on the Fanm Rebèl project. Her research is situated at the intersection of Black Studies, Haitian Studies and American and Caribbean Cultural Studies, focusing largely on the transgenerational legacies of the Haitian Revolution and, more broadly, on articulations of resistance across the Black Atlantic from the age of slavery to the present. She is interested, in particular, in excavating and amplifying the forgotten, silenced and mediated stories of revolutionary women.

After completing her PhD at the University of East Anglia in 2016, Nicole worked at the Universities of Greenwich and Kent and, from 2018-2019, served as the Postdoctoral Research Associate on the AHRC-funded project Our Bondage and Our Freedom: Frederick Douglass and Family (1818-2018) at the University of Edinburgh. She has published widely in Comparative American Studies, Kalfou: a Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies, Journal of American Studies, Slavery and Abolition,Women’s Studies International Forum and Atlantic Studies: Global Currents.

Nicole’s research on Marie-Louise Christophe’s time in Britain has featured in the world-leading history magazine, History Todayand on Dan Snow’s History Hit podcast, the UK’s number one history podcast. In 2022, she spearheaded campaigns to have two blue plaques mounted at Marie-Louise’s former UK residences and was honoured by the Haitian Embassy on International Women’s Day.

Together with Dr M. Stephanie Chancy, she co-coordinated the three-day international conference Rasanblaj Fanm: Stories of Haitian Womanhood, Past, Present and Future.

Grégory Pierrot is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Connecticut at Stamford. He is a Black Studies scholar with specific interests in the cultural impact of the Haitian Revolution throughout the Atlantic world. Pierrot authored The Black Avenger in Atlantic Culture (UGA Press, 2019) and co-edited with Paul Youngquist An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti by Marcus Rainsford(Duke, 2013). With Marlene L. Daut and Marion Rohrleitner, he co-edited and translated texts for the upcoming Anthology of Haitian Revolutionary Fictions (UVA, 2021). He is co-creator with Tabitha McIntosh of the Néhri digital humanities project and assisted with the transcription of Marie-Louise Christophe’s will. Follow him on Twitter @wwJJDdo.

Paul Clammer is a writer and independent scholar. He is the author of Black Crown: Henry Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean's Forgotten Kingdom (Hurst Publishers, 2023) as well as Haiti (Bradt Travel Guides, 2016), the only dedicated English-language guidebook to the country and is the lead author on Lonely Planet's Jamaica and Caribbean Islands titles. As part of the Fanm Rebèl project he assisted with the transcription of Marie-Louise Christophe’s will. Follow him on Twitter @paulclammer.

Joseph Guerdy Lissade is a lawyer by profession and a passionate collector. As an independent scholar, he specialises in the monetary history of Haiti. He is currently Vice-President of the Haitian Society of History, Geography and Geology. He has written several books on Haitian numismatics and given various conferences on the subject both in Haiti and abroad. He is behind the creation of the money museum of the Central Bank of Haiti and his scholarship has uncovered the riches of numismatics and enhanced this area of Haitian history. He founded the Collection Monnaies et Médailles d’Haïti® (Coins and Medals of Haiti), institutionalising a private collection in order to make it available for the public benefit, especially to those interested in researching Haitian coinage.

Marie-Lucie Vendryes, actuellement retraitée, est détentrice d’un baccalauréat en histoire de l’art et d’une maîtrise en muséologie de l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Elle a complété ses études de muséologie à l’Université de Bourgogne (Dijon, France) où elle a obtenu un D.E.A. Elle a rempli différentes fonctions au sein d’institutions patrimoniales haïtiennes, par exemple comme directrice du Musée du Panthéon National Haitien (MUPANAH) et à titre de muséologue indépendante comme chef d’équipe de sauvetage d’œuvres d’art et d’objets ethnographiques au Centre de sauvetage de biens culturels (CSBC) en 2010. Elle a mis en place un cursus de muséologie au sein du programme de maîtrise en Histoire, Mémoire et Patrimoine à l’Université d’État d’Haiti où elle a enseigné. Elle est l’autrice d’articles divers.

Jonathan Michael Square is a writer and historian specialising in fashion and visual culture of the African Diaspora. He has a PhD in history from New York University, a master’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and B.A. from Cornell University. He has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Fashion Institute of Technology, Parsons School of Design, and currently at Harvard University. A proponent in the power of social media as a platform for radical pedagogy, he founded and runs the digital humanities project Fashioning the Self in Slavery and Freedom, which explores the intersection of fashion and slavery. Together with Siobhan Marie Meï, he recently launched Rendering Revolution, a project that documents the significant role that fashion and clothing played in constructing visions of freedom during and after the Haitian Revolution.

Siobhan Meï is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Women and Gender Studies. Her dissertation project, "Refashioning History: Women as Sartorial Storytellers" explores the radical possibilities of fashion as a storytelling strategy in women’s historical fiction. Siobhan's research on the relationship between self-fashioning and authorship as embodied praxes of feminist resistance centers the work of Haitian women authors such as Marie Chauvet and Évelyne Trouillot, who powerfully, and vividly, recreate the material-social worlds of Saint Domginue in their historical fiction about the Haitian Revolution. With Jonathan Michael Square, Siobhan co-directs Rendering Revolution, a digital humanities project and educational tool that documents the significant role that fashion and clothing played in constructing visions of freedom during and after the Haitian Revolution. Combining colonial visual and textual archives with contemporary art and fiction, Rendering Revolution offers a picture of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth century sartorial culture, focusing on the confluence of European and West African fashions in Haiti.

Henry Stoll is Assistant Professor in the Department of Music and postdoctoral fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows at the University of Michigan. He is a musicologist who specialises in the cultural history of Haiti and the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French Atlantic. His first book project, The Unsung Revolution, examines how the nation of Haiti, having fundamentally altered its Atlantic world, used music to express the joys, concerns, desires, and ambitions of its people. As part of the Fanm Rebèl network, he is interested in Haitian social dance, the music education of Haitian women and girls, and the musical lives of Marie-Louise Christophe and her two daughters

Born and raised in Haiti, Patricia Brintle is a self-taught artist whose vibrant works recall the cultural memory of her homeland, shining a spotlight, in particular, on the often marginalised histories of revolutionary women. Her artworks also tackle themes such as nuclear disarmament, the Holocaust and the Haitian earthquake. Several of her paintings have been featured in movies and have been reproduced on the covers of books, magazines and other publications. She belongs to several art organisations and exhibits internationally.

Brintle is also the president of From Here to Haiti, Ltd. (FHTH), a non-profit all-volunteer charity contributing to the reconstruction effort in Haiti. Since its formation in the aftermath of the earthquake of 2010, FHTH has completed over 55 projects, installing and repairing roofs, latrines, wells, church bells and more. Brintle donates most of the proceeds from the sale of her artworks to FHTH.

Brintle’s artworks feature prominently in the Fanm Rebèl Gallery and she exhibited and spoke about a number of these artworks at the Rasanblaj Fanm: Stories of Haitian Womanhood, Past, Present and Future conference at the University of Central Lancashire in July 2024.

Jasmine Claude-Narcisse's research encompasses the rhetoric of the self in Francophone literature, Francophone Caribbean autobiography, and recalibrating the contours of Francophone literature. Among her publications, Mémoire de Femmes (1997), an account of research, interviews, and oral histories of and on Haitian women history remains an important work of reference in the field. For over twelve years, she led the Haitian Book Centre and the annual Haitian Book Day in New York. As an assistant to the director and then a member of the Henri Peyre French Institute Board of Directors, she has spearheaded the Institute’s continuous programming on Haiti, including the Haiti Rencontres series in 2012, curating its three-day conference Impunity, Responsibility and Citizenship – HAITI, in March 2016. As a professional educator in the field of second-language acquisition and French/Francophone literatures, she was a full-time visiting instructor at York College and Queensborough Community College and has taught at multiple campuses of CUNY, developing the Creole Language Program at York. She now works in secondary education. She is actively involved in the work of the collective Jean-Claude Charles which aims to revisit and promote this groundbreaking Haitian author through conferences, symposia and publications of a critical apparatus of his oeuvre.

First-generation Haitian-American soprano, Melissa Joseph graduated from Georgia State University with both a Bachelor and Master of Music in Vocal Performance. Most recently, she performed the role of Musetta in La Bohême by Puccini with Peach State Opera. Her collegiate work includes Pamina (Die Zoberflöte), Peep-Bo (The Mikado), Sandman (Hansel and Gretel), and Micaëla (Carmen) with the Georgia State University Opera. She has also placed in several competitions both regionally and nationally. In 2019, Melissa was a finalist in three national competitions and won first place at the National Association of Negro Musicians New York District auditions. In addition, she was also awarded the Kristin Lewis Foundation Artist Development Award in Conway, Arkansas, and was named a semifinalist in the 2018 FAVA Grand Concours Vocal Competition. In conjunction with the Fanm Rebèl project, she is collaborating with Henry Stoll to reconstruct a series of songs from the royal court of the Kingdom of Hayti dedicated to the Queen and Princesses.

From Pétion-Ville, Haiti, Danielle M. Dorvil is a PhD candidate in the department of Spanish and Portuguese at Vanderbilt University. Her research interests are in Caribbean and Latin American cultural productions from the nineteenth century to the present, with special focus on Brazil, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. In conjunction with the Fanm Rebèl project, she also collaborates as a translator in Rendering Revolution, a digital humanities project co-directed by Dr Jonathan Michael Square and Siobhan Mei. She is the sole translator of all Kreyòl content on the Fanm Rebèl site.

Carrie Glenn is an Assistant Professor of History at Niagara University. Her research uncovers the ways that entrepreneurial women in the Atlantic world traded goods and forged lasting,  international commercial and kinship networks in the wake of the Haitian Revolution. Her book project explores the short- and long-term, local and far-reaching reverberations of the Haitian Revolution from the perspective of Marie Rose Poumaroux (a marchande de couleur) and Elizabeth Beauveau (a white itinerant American). Women, she finds, were crucial architects of the French Atlantic during the Haitian Revolution and afterwards as part of diaspora communities throughout the Atlantic basin.

Together with Camille Cordier (Université Lumiere Lyon), she is working on a digital humanities project that will map Cap Français using the rich nominative cadastre records for the city held at the French national archives in Aix-en-Provence.

Robin Mitchell is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at California State University, Channel Islands. She is a 19th century French historian, specializing in discourses about race, gender, and sexuality. Much of her work focuses on the white colonial fantasies, scandals, and crime imposed upon Black women’s bodies and voices when they are in metropolitan French spaces. Mitchell has published numerous published journal articles, and her first book, Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France (University of Georgia Press, 2020), was named by the African American Intellectual History Society to its “The Best Black History Books of 2020.” Mitchell is currently writing the biography of Suzanne Simone Baptiste, wife of Haitian Revolutionary Toussaint Louverture (under contract with Princeton University Press). Follow her on Twitter @ParisNoire.

Guilaine Brutus has an MSc in Migration, Mobility and Development. She is the Founder of The Haitian Heritage Group UK (HHG). HHG is a community interest company, whose purpose is to promote a positive image of Haitian culture, art, and history, and encourage young people to work towards leaving positive legacies in their respective communities. Together with members of the Haitian Heritage Group, Guilaine has organised “Our Black History is World History” events for Black History month on women in the Haitian Revolution and the Kingdom of Henry Christophe, along with events for important cultural festivals in the Haitian calendar such as Haitian Independence Day and Haitian Flag Day. She was one of the principal speakers at the unveiling of a blue plaque dedicated to Queen Marie-Louise Christophe at her former residence in Hastings in October 2022.

Miriam Franchina is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Trier, Germany with a project funded by the German Research Foundation. She studies how Africans and Afro-descendants in colonial, revolutionary and early independent Haiti may have used Catholicism — a religion that endorsed slavery and colonialism — to challenge their status as enslaved individuals and to forge a common identity on the global stage.

Inspired by Fanm Rebèl and alongside Fraternità Haitiana, she coordinated the installation of two historical markers in Pisa, where Queen Marie-Louise, her daughters, and her sister are buried. In collaboration with with Fanm Rebèl, she hopes to uncover more archival traces and artifacts to reconstruct the transfer of people and ideas between Haiti and her native Italy.

Nathan H. Dize is an Assistant Professor of French at Washington University in Saint Louis. His research is situated at the crossroads of French Caribbean literary and intellectual history, cultural studies, translation studies, and the digital humanities. Nathan teaches courses about French Caribbean, with a specific focus on recovering the lives and works of women from Haiti, Martinique and Guadeloupe. He is a founding member of the Kwazman Vwa collective, a member of the digital networks of Fanm Rebèl and Rendering Revolution: Sartorial Approaches to Haitian History, and a founding editor of the digital history project, A Colony in Crisis: The Saint-Domingue Grain Shortage of 1789. He is currently working on two book projects, Resting Places: Haitian Literature and the Practice of Mourning and The Hidden Legacies of Black Translators of Francophone Literature.

Nathan is also an accomplished translator of Haitian literature. His translations include: The Immortals and L’Empereur by Makenzy Orcel, I Am Alive by Kettly Mars, and Antoine of Gommiers by Lyonel Trouillot. He has also translated works French and Haitian Creole (Kreyòl) by Jean D’Amérique, James Noël, and Évelyne Trouillot.

M. Stephanie Chancy is the Caribbean Partnerships Librarian, Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) Operational Lead and Director of Digital Scholarship at the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries. At dLOC, an open access cooperative digital library, she works with partners based in the Caribbean, Europe, Canada and the United States to preserve and make Caribbean research resources available to users. She received her Ph.D. in History from Florida International University and her Master of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees from the University of Miami. Stephanie’s research focuses on Black Atlantic Material Cultures, especially the cultural and artistic exchanges between the Caribbean, Europe, and the United States. Stephanie taught U.S. History and Art History courses at the undergraduate level for over a decade, and, prior to her academic career she worked in non-profit arts administration.

Together with Dr Nicole Willson, she co-coordinated the three-day international conference Rasanblaj Fanm: Stories of Haitian Womanhood, Past, Present and Future.

Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall (Ph.D., Stanford) is Professor of History at California State University – San Marcos. She is a specialist in Haitian and French history; her publications include The Abbé Grégoire and the French Revolution: The Making of Modern Universalism (UC Press, 2005; paperback, 2021), Haitian History: New Perspectives (Routledge, 2012), and Slave Revolt on Screen: The Haitian Revolution in Film and Video Games (Mississippi, 2021). She has long been interested in gender in Haitian history, as well as in film and video games. She is a past winner of CSUSM’s Brakebill Outstanding Professor Award as well as the statewide Wang Award for Outstanding Faculty Teaching, the top honor for a faculty member in the California State University system.

Dr Raphael Hoermann holds an MA in German, English and American Literature (University of Constance) and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Glasgow. He is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR) and Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). He is a Deputy-Director of UCLan’s Research Centre for Migration, Diaspora and Exile (MIDEX).

His main expertise lies in Haitian Revolutionary, Black Atlantic Studies and Transatlantic Radicalism. He is the author of the study Writing the Revolution: German and English Radical Literature, 1819-1849/9 (Zurich: Lit, 2011) and co-editor (together with Gesa Mackenthun) of Human Bondage in the Cultural Contact Zone: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Slavery and Its Discourses (Münster: Waxmann, 2010). He has published several articles and book chapters in these fields, including on the ‘Haitian Gothic’, the figure of the zombie and the Haitian Revolution, on the genealogy of Black Jacobins trope and on the intersectional, transatlantic revolutionary discourse of the Black Atlantic ninetieth-century radical Robert Wedderburn. He has recently completed the manuscript for his second monograph, entitled: Politics of Terror: Narratives of the Haitian Revolution between Demonisation and Liberation.