Millery Polyné

Millery Polyné is an Associate Professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University. He holds a B.A. in History from Morehouse College (1996), an M.A. in 19th-Century Caribbean and Latin American History from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1997), and a Ph.D. in 19th and 20th-Century African American and Caribbean Intellectual Thought from the same institution (2003).

His research focuses on the history of African American and Afro-Caribbean intellectual thought, coloniality in the Americas, tourism politics, and race in sports. He has published in journals such as Small Axe, Caribbean Studies, and the Journal of Haitian Studies. His books include From Douglass to Duvalier: U.S. African Americans, Haiti, and Pan-Americanism, 1870–1964 (2010) and co-edited volumes like The Haiti Reader: History, Culture, Politics (2020).

• Recipient of the 2012 NEH Schomburg Fellowship and 2005 Rochester Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Teaching highlights include courses such as 'Consuming the Caribbean,' 'Black Intellectual Thought in the Atlantic World,' and 'Zombies: History, Culture and Fear in the Americas.'