Vincent Joos (PhD, UNC Chapel Hill) is a cultural anthropologist who researches post-disaster reconstruction and the relations between states, citizens, and international organizations in the Caribbean. His new book, Urban Dwelling, Haitian Citizenships tracks the vernacular transformation of urban space by people excluded from the aid economy in post-earthquake Haiti. Joos also writes about the history of immigration and border infrastructure in Calais, France.

Research Interests

Haitian Studies

Immigration Studies

Disaster Anthropology and Disaster Capitalism

Relations between Ethnography and Literature

French and Francophone Experimental Literature with a focus on Nouveau Roman

Courses Taught

History of Anthropology 

Caribbean Music and Politics

Graduate Seminar in Cultural Anthropology

Disasters

Race, Sports, and Culture in the United States

Selected Publications

• Joos, V. (2021, September). Haiti Can Solve Its Own Problems, if Foreign Powers Would Let It. World Politics Review. Retrieved from https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/29852/in-haiti-crisis-has-roots-in-history-of-foreign-interference 
• Joos, V. (2021, May). Haiti Is Slowly Becoming an Autocracy. World Politics Review. Retrieved from https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/29653/in-haiti-violence-spikes-as-moise-clings-to-power 
• Joos, V. N. (2020). Echoes of Past Revolutions:  Architecture, Memory, and Spectral Politics in the Historic Districts of Port-au-Prince. VIBRANT – Virtual Brazilian Anthropology, 18. 
• Joos, V. N. (2019, December). Haiti's Political Disaster: An Internationally Sponsored Crisis. The Globe Post. Retrieved from https://theglobepost.com/2019/12/23/haiti-political-disaster/ 
•  Joos, V. N. (2019, September). Gas shortages paralyze Haiti, triggering protests against failing economy and dysfunctional politics. The Conversation. Retrieved from https://theconversation.com/gas-shortages-paralyze-haiti-triggering-protests-against-failing-economy-and-dysfunctional-politics-116337
• Joos, V. N. (2019, September). Gas shortages paralyze Haiti, triggering protests against failing economy and dysfunctional politics. The Conversation. Retrieved from https://theconversation.com/gas-shortages-paralyze-haiti-triggering-protests-against-failing-economy-and-dysfunctional-politics-116337
• Joos V. ; Laura Wagner (2019). Manje Lakay: Globalisation, Terroirs et Identités Culinaires. Trois/Cent/Soixante Degrés (3). 
• Joos, V. ; Leleu Eric (2018). The Invisible Jungle of Calais. Limn. https://limn.it/articles/the-invisible-jungle-of-calais/
• Joos, V. (2017). Space, female economies, and autonomy in the shotgun neighborhoods of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Economic Anthropology, 4 (1), 37-49.
• Joos, V. (2015). M'pase Twop Mizè: Vie et Mort de Boss Arold. 360 Degres, 1(1), 48-52.
• Joos, V. (2013). The Natchez Fire: African American Remembrance through Interviews, Photographs, and Songs. Southern Quarterly, 50(2), 49-71.
• Joos, V. (2010). Jimmy Anderson: Natchez Swamp Blues. Southern Cultures, 30 (2), 10-142.
• Joos, V. (2004). La Critique Sociale dans le Tramway de Claude Simon. Romans 20-50, 37, 67-89.
• Joos, V. (2004). Le regard déplacé de Claude Simon: Notes sur Le Tramway. Variations, 12, 207-221.
• Joos, Vincent. 2021. Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti. Rutgers University Press
• Joos, Vincent; Solterer, Helen (eds). 2022. Migrants Shaping Europe, Past and Present. Manchester University Press. Open Access