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J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat

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J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat
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Kovats-Bernat in 2016
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J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat is an American cultural anthropologist with a specialization in Haiti.

Life[edit]

Kovats-Bernat was raised in Kensington, a Philadelphia neighborhood, and Allentown, Pennsylvania.[1] He earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy and anthropology from Muhlenberg College in 1993,[2] and his Ph.D. in anthropology from Temple University in 2001, with a dissertation on street children in Port-au-Prince.[3]

Kovats-Bernat has worked as a faculty member at Muhlenberg College[2] and a visiting assistant professor at Shippensburg University. His recent research has focused on Haitian Vodou.

Selected works[edit]

  • Kovats-Bernat, J. Christopher (2006). Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti. University Press of Florida. ISBN 978-0-8130-3009-8. Search this book on [4]
  • Kovats-Bernat, J. Christopher (2022). Anfans Difisil: A Study of Imperiled Childhoods in Haiti. Kendall Hunt Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1-7924-5266-6. Search this book on

References[edit]

  1. Molly Foster (September 18, 2018). "SU visiting anthropology professor shares heart-wrenching account of his time in Haiti". The Slate. Shippensburg University. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Dana Perillo (Winter 2002). "Coming to Work at a Place You Call Home". Muhlenberg magazine. Muhlenberg College. p. 17. Retrieved June 7, 2019.
  3. J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat (2001). The Impact of Poverty, Violence and State Repression on the Cultural Identity and Social Agency of Street Children in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti (PhD). Temple University. OCLC 52318042.
  4. Reviews of Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince:



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