Participant Info
- First Name
- Claire Antone
- Last Name
- Payton
- Country
- United States
- State
- VA Virginia
- cap4pe@virginia.edu
- Affiliation
- University of Virginia
- Website URL
- claireantonepayton.com
- Keywords
- Haiti, Caribbean, dictatorship, urban history, construction, concrete, corruption, infrastructure, disaster, earthquake,
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
As a Caribbean historian with expertise in Haiti, I use geography, material culture, and urban planning to analyze modern Caribbean and Latin American history. My research focuses on the history of Port-au-Prince during the era of the Duvalier regime (1957-1986). I analyze the connections between dictatorship and urban space through construction, urban planning, and urban life. Working on the Duvalier regime meaning analyzing corruption and authoritarianism.
- Recent Publications
Claire Antone Payton, “Building Corruption in Haiti: In Haiti, Illicit Income Extraction Is a Constantly Constructed Mode of Governance, Helping to Explain Popular Outrage Surrounding the Recent PetroCaribe Scandal.,” NACLA Report on the Americas 51, no. 2 (April 3, 2019): 182–87,
Claire Antone Payton, “The City and the State: Construction and the Politics of Dictatorship in Haiti, 1957-1986” (PhD Dissertation, Duke University, 2018).
Claire Antone Payton, “In Moral Debt to Haiti,” NACLA Report on the Americas 49, no. 1 (January 2, 2017): 64–70,
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @clairepayton
- Country Focus
- Haiti
- Expertise by Geography
- Caribbean, Latin America
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Colonialism, Environment, Government, Local & Regional, Material Culture, Politics, Race, Urban History
