Patrick Bellegarde-Smith

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Patrick Bellegarde-Smith is a professor emeritus of Africology at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Bellegarde-Smith is an associate editor of the Journal of Haitian Studies and former president of the Haitian Studies Association and the Congress of Santa Barbara (KOSANBA), a scholarly association for the study of Vodou and other African-derived religions.^[1]

He earned his PhD in international relations from American University and he holds degrees in comparative politics and history.[1]

Bellegarde-Smith is the grandson of the Haitian diplomat Dantès Bellegarde.^[2] Bellegarde-Smith is an houngan, or Vodou priest.^{[citation needed]}

• In the Shadow of Powers: Dantès Bellegarde in Haitian Social Thought (1985)
• Haiti: The Breached Citadel (1990) (Second Edition 2004)
• Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in a New World (Editor) (2005)
• Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality (Co-editor with Claudine Michel) (2006)
• Invisible Powers: Vodou and Development in Haiti (Co-editor with Claudine Michel) (2006)

• UW–Milwaukee Africology Faculty of Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
• Patrick Bellegarde-Smith interview

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