Yanique Hume (PhD Emory University, 2008) specializes in African diaspora performance and religious traditions. Her interest in the historical relationship between Haiti and Cuba and the interconnections between cultural performances and diasporic subjectivity was the focus of her extensive fieldwork and PhD research in Eastern Cuba. This work was funded by the Social Science Research Council and the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. She is currently developing this project into a book manuscript entitled, Haiti in the Cuban Imaginary: Culture, Identity and the Performance of Diaspora. In that work, she interrogates the place in which Haiti occupies in Cuban cultural politics and its relationship to the multiple ways Haitians of Cuban descent use performance to negotiate a space of national belonging. Dr. Hume has conducted research on various cultural processes throughout the Caribbean, including the religious and funerary practices in her native Jamaica, of which she has co-curated an exhibition and published a catalogue, Of Things Sacred: The Aesthetic Dimensions of Jamaican Religions and Ritual Practice (IOJ 2006).
- African Diasporic Performance and Sacred Arts
- Cuban Cultural Politics
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Haitian Diaspora in Cuba and Intra-Caribbean Migration
- Caribbean Spiritualities and Creole Religions
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Migration and Diasporic Tourism
- Caribbean Creative Sectors
- Researcher on the collaborative project between the Shridath Ramphal Centre (SRC) for International Trade Law, Policy and Services at the University of West Indies (UWI) Cave Hill, Barbados, and the Centre for Trade Policy and Law (CTPL), Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. This project is funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The project examines the impact of the Dominican diasporic community on tourism and socio-economic development in the Dominican Republic.
- co-organiser of an upcoming workshop on the anthropological perspectives on death and mortuary rituals in the Caribbean, which has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Also co-editor of a forthcoming anthology on the Caribbean mortuary complex.
“The State of Policy: An Exploration of CEDA and CRNM Policy Initiatives for the Music and Audio Visual Creative Sectors,” pp. 7-17. In Re-Imagining, Re-Fashioning, Re-Building: Actions for Our Creative Eco-Systems, edited by Suzanne Burke. OECS Secretariat, August 2009
“On the Margins: The Emergence of a Haitian Diasporic Enclave in Eastern Cuba.” In Geographies of the Haitian Diaspora (Routledge Studies in African and Black Diaspora Edited by Regine O. Jackson. (NY: Routledge) – Forthcoming Dec. 2010
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