Ermitte Saint Jacques

  • Assistant Professor, African & African Diaspora Studies
  • Undergraduate Advisor, African & African Diaspora Studies

Education

  • PhD, Anthropology, University of Florida

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
AFRIC 320-001 Black Cultures in Latin America and the Caribbean MW 10am-11:15am
AFRIC 381-001 Honors Seminar: Migration in Africa and the Diaspora MW 1pm-2:15pm

Research Interests

  • Transnational migration and globalization
  • Race and ethnicity
  • Gender and migration
  • Social network analysis Southern Europe, West Africa and the Caribbean

Selected Publications

Saint Jacques, E. (2012). “Global (Dis)Connect: Negotiating Transnational Family Obligations Among West Africans in Spain,” University of Denver, Denver, CO.
Saint Jacques, E. (2011). Between Periphery and Center in the Haitian Diaspora: The Transnational Practices of Haitian Migrants in the Bahamas. In Geographies of the Haitian Diaspora, Regine O. Jackson, ed. pp. 91-110. New York and London: Routledge.
Saint Jacques, E. (2011). “My husband brought me here”: Gender and Change in the Senegalese Diaspora,” American Anthropological Association, Montréal, Canada.
Saint Jacques, E. (2011). “Gendered Households and Patterns of Transnational Migration,” University of Denver, Denver, CO.