Professor of African Diaspora Studies at Yale University. Author of Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution (University of North Carolina Press, 2023), co-winner of the 2024 Frederick Douglass Book Prize awarded by the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, and The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe (Knopf, 2025).