Join us at the Hennage Auditorium in Colonial Williamsburg, 301 S. Nassau Street, Williamsburg, VA, on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, at 5:00 pm ET for a talk by Marlene Daut.

Professor Daut (Yale University) is an award-winning author and public scholar. Her most recent book, Awakening the Ashes: An Intellectual History of the Haitian Revolution (University of North Carolina Press, 2023) won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize and was listed as a Best Black History Book of 2023 by Black Perspectives. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker; The New York Times; Essence Magazine; The Nation; Harper’s Bazaar and many other publications both public-facing and scholarly. Her forthcoming book, The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe will be published by Knopf in January 2025.