Volume 32, Number 1 (Spring 2026)

Special Issue on Vodou

Vodou Epistemologies: Knowledge in Ceremony

Dancing Many Spirit Nations: Konesans and the Work of Embodied Knowing in Haitian Vodou

—Yanique Hume

Langaj as Liturgical Language: African Legacies  and Ancestral Memory in Northern Haitian Vodou

—Alexandra Helene St Tellien

Vocal Intervention and Sacred Utterances: Sound Frequencies and Ritual Vibrations in Haitian Vodou

—Collin Edouard

Visual Representations of the Sacred

Milokan, Vodou’s Divine Multitudes: Myrlande Constant’s Drapo (Ritual Flags) and the Spirits’ “Plus One” Principle

—Kyrah Malika Daniels 

Awakening Milokan: Debates Surrounding the Vodou Vèvè in Haiti’s 2026 FIFA Soccer Jersey

—Leandro Nerefuh

Vodou Histories, Past and Present

Centering Ancestral Memory and Sacred Geography in the History of Bwa Kayiman

—Kate Ramsey

Hiding from Hamilton: Vodou as Tactic among Haitian Migrants 

—William G. Perez & Carter Charles

Book Reviews

Konbit, by Sony Ton-Aime

—Cécile Accilien

Cécé, by Emmelie Prophète

—Robyn Cope

Myrlande Constant: The Work of Radiance, edited by Katherine Smith and Jerry Philogene

—LeGrace Benson

A Year and a Day: Leonore Mau and Haiti / Un An et un jour. Leonore Mau et Haïti, edited by Dora Imhof, Gina Ulysse, and U5

—Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken

Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution: Collective Action in the African Diaspora, by Crystal Nicole Eddins

—Celucien L. Joseph

Les Déshérités: L’Université haïtienne et ses étudiants des classes populaires, by Ilionor Louis

—Jeffney Ferdin