That happened a year ago. Being fully committed to student-success, faculty development, effective leadership in higher education, and community engagement and development is something worth celebrating!
Higher Education & Student Success
Introducing “Academic Consulting & Research Services”
Dear Readers and Friends,
I hope this message finds you well. I am excited to share the launch of my new “Academic Consulting & Research Services,” an initiative designed to support scholars, doctoral students, educators, researchers, and organizations seeking guidance in research, writing, and intellectual development.
Throughout my career as a professor, author, researcher, and academic leader, I have been committed to mentoring emerging scholars and helping individuals develop ideas that contribute meaningfully to society.
Through this consulting practice, I provide support in the following areas:
- Dissertation coaching and doctoral mentorship
- Academic writing and publication development
- Book proposals and manuscript preparation
- Research strategy and development
- Grant writing consultation
- Scholarly and intellectual project development
I created this service because I believe important ideas deserve thoughtful guidance, strategic development, and effective communication. If you or someone in your network is working on a dissertation, research project, publication, grant proposal, or educational initiative, I would be honored to explore how I might assist.
Thank you for your continued support and encouragement. I look forward to new opportunities to collaborate and contribute.
Warm regards,
Celucien L. Joseph, PhD
Professor | Author | Academic Consultant | Research Mentor
E-mail: drcelucienjoseph@gmail.com
Phone number: (318) 459-8458
https://drcelucienjoseph.com/
Consulting Packages
Consulting Packages
Consulting Packages
Personalized Academic Support Designed Around Your Goals
Every research project is unique. Consulting packages are designed to provide the level of support, guidance, accountability, and expertise needed for your specific academic or professional journey.
A. The Scholar’s Foundation Package: Building Clarity and Direction
Ideal for students, researchers, and professionals who need expert feedback on an emerging idea.
Includes:
- 60-minute consultation session
- Review of research goals or writing project
- Strategic recommendations
- Written follow-up summary
Investment:
Starting at $150
B. The Dissertation Success Package: From Proposal to Defense
Designed for doctoral students seeking ongoing mentorship throughout the dissertation process.
Includes:
- Monthly coaching sessions
- Dissertation planning support
- Chapter feedback
- Research strategy guidance
- Accountability and progress support
- Proposal and defense preparation
Investment:
Starting at $500/month
C. The Publication & Scholarship Package: Transform Your Research into Published Work
Designed for scholars preparing articles, manuscripts, or book proposals.
Includes:
- Manuscript assessment
- Developmental editing
- Argument refinement
- Publication strategy
- Revision guidance
Investment:
Starting at $2,000
D. The Research & Grant Development Package: Turning Vision Into Funded Initiatives
Designed for nonprofits, educators, and organizations developing research-based projects.
Includes:
- Project development consultation
- Grant strategy
- Proposal development support
- Impact narrative development
- Funding preparation
Investment:
Customized based on project scope
Schedule a Consultation
Begin with a conversation about your goals, timeline, and vision.
Contact Information:
E-mail: drcelucienjoseph@gmail.com
Phone number: (318) 459-8458
Academic Consulting & Research Services
Academic Consulting & Research Services
Academic Consulting & Research Services
Scholarship. Strategy. Impact.
Helping scholars, educators, doctoral students, nonprofit leaders, professionals, and organizations transform ideas into meaningful research, publications, and community impact.
About the Consulting Practice
Academic success requires more than intelligence and ambition. It requires mentorship, strategic guidance, intellectual clarity, and the ability to communicate ideas clearly and effectively.
Through Academic Consulting & Research Services, Dr. Celucien L. Joseph provides personalized guidance to individuals and organizations seeking to strengthen their research, writing, scholarly development, and public impact.
Drawing upon extensive experience as a professor, published author, academic leader, and researcher, Dr. Joseph helps clients navigate complex intellectual projects—from dissertation development and scholarly publication to grant writing and research initiatives.
Consulting Services
1. Dissertation Coaching & Doctoral Mentorship: From Research Idea to Successful Defense
The dissertation journey can be challenging. Many doctoral students have important ideas but need experienced guidance to develop a clear argument, strengthen their research, and successfully complete their doctoral work.
Services include:
- Research question development
- Dissertation planning and organization
- Literature review development
- Theoretical framework guidance
- Chapter structure and revision
- Academic writing improvement
- Proposal preparation
- Dissertation defense preparation
Designed for:
- Doctoral students
- ABD (All But Dissertation) candidates
- Emerging scholars seeking mentorship and accountability
2. Scholarly Writing & Publication Support: Transforming Research into Published Scholarship
Strong scholarship deserves strong presentation and effective communication. Dr. Joseph provides developmental feedback and strategic guidance to help researchers communicate their ideas with clarity, precision, originality, and scholarly excellence.
Services include:
- Journal article development
- Manuscript review and revision
- Book proposal development
- Conference proposal preparation
- Research narrative refinement
- Academic editing and polishing
Designed for:
- Faculty members
- Independent scholars
- Graduate students
- Researchers preparing publications
3. Grant Writing & Research Development: Helping Visionary Ideas Become Fundable Projects
Successful grants require a compelling vision, clear objectives, strong research foundations, and an effective narrative demonstrating impact.
Services include:
- Grant strategy consultation
- Proposal development
- Research design support
- Program narratives
- Impact statements
- Community and educational initiatives
Designed for:
- Nonprofit organizations
- Educational institutions
- Community leaders
- Researchers seeking external funding
4. Research & Intellectual Consulting:
Developing Ideas That Create Knowledge and Social Impact
Beyond traditional academic support, Dr. Joseph works with individuals and organizations seeking to develop research-based initiatives and projects addressing important cultural, educational, religious, historical, and social questions.
Areas of expertise include:
- Higher Education
- Humanities Research
- Public Scholarship
- American Studies
- Black intellectual history
- Race, culture, and society
- Religion and public life
- Education and human flourishing
- Haiti and the African diaspora
Why Work With Dr. Celucien L. Joseph?
Dr. Celucien L. Joseph is a scholar, author, educator, and public intellectual whose work bridges academic excellence and social impact. With experience in higher education leadership, scholarly publishing, interdisciplinary research, and mentoring emerging scholars, Dr. Joseph provides thoughtful, rigorous, and personalized guidance for individuals seeking to advance their intellectual and professional goals.
His approach combines:
A. Expertise: grounded in years of teaching, research, and publication.
B. Mentorship: supporting scholars through challenging intellectual journeys.
C. Strategy: helping clients develop clear pathways toward completion and impact.
D. Vision: connecting scholarship with meaningful contributions to society.
Begin Your Consultation Journey
Whether you are completing a dissertation, preparing a publication, developing a grant proposal, or building a research initiative, Academic Consulting & Research Services provides the expertise and guidance needed to move your ideas forward.
Schedule a consultation today to discuss your project and goals.
Contact Information:
E-mail: drcelucienjoseph@gmail.com
Phone number: (318) 459-8458
“How I want to be remembered “
“How I want to be remembered “
I want to be remembered as a man of God whose life was deeply rooted in a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Through faith, I sought to inspire hope, empower others, and guide people with wisdom, knowledge, humility, and love.
I want to be remembered as a devoted husband who cherished his wife, and as a loving father who faithfully guided his children to become people of integrity, wisdom, and compassion, as well as national and global citizens who contribute meaningfully to society and whose lives are marked by kindness, hospitality, justice, and a genuine concern for others.
I want to be remembered as a scholar who believed that knowledge exists to serve humanity, empower individuals, transform their living conditions; a teacher who inspired generations of students to become better human beings; a public intellectual who spoke truth with courage and grace; and a servant-leader who devoted his life to the flourishing of Haiti, the poor, the homeless, immigrants, refugees, and vulnerable youth through education, mentoring, servant-leadership, and resources.
I want to be remembered as a builder of people and institutions, and as a person who invested in lives, created opportunities where none existed, and founded organizations that continued to transform communities long after I was gone. I hope that my books, my teaching, my mentorship, and my service will bear lasting fruit for generations to come.
Above all, I want my life to testify that faith in Jesus Christ, lived out through love, justice, compassion, and faithful service, has the power to transform individuals, families, communities, and nations. If those who knew me remember that I loved God wholeheartedly, loved my family sacrificially, and dedicated my life to serving others with humility and hope, then I will have lived a life of enduring purpose towards human flourishing and the common good.
“Haiti and the Holocaust”
“Haiti & the Holocaust”
In 1938 at the Evian Conference, 32 countries refused to help Jewish refugees. Only one small Black Republic said YES.
From 1937 to 1940, Haiti issued passports and visas to save hundreds of Jewish families from the Holocaust. While America, Britain and others closed their doors, Haiti opened hers.
This is the forgotten history of Haiti and the Jewish people – a story of RESPECT, LOVE & UNITY. 🇭🇹❤️🇮🇱
Sources: US Holocaust Museum, Haiti Jewish Refugee archives/Patrick Bellegarde-Smith
“Jews in Haiti”
Follow up post about the history of Jews 🇮🇱 in Haiti 🇭🇹
Here’s my recommended text about the history of Jews in Haiti:
“Histoire juive d’Haïti” by Joseph Bernard Jr
Description
“Chassés d’Espagne en 1492 par le Décret d’Alhambra, la nation juive dut se trouver de nouvelles terres d’accueil. La découverte du Nouveau monde lui offrit cette opportunité, et certaines familles sépharades choisirent de s’installer à Hispaniola. Bien que contribuant à la prospérité de la Perle des Antilles, les Juifs de Saint-Domingue furentl’objet de lois discriminatoires édictées par la monarchie française. La Révolution française de 1789 allait apporter un vent nouveau pour la nation juive, mais la révolte des esclaves de 1791 la contraignit à nouveau de s’envoler pour d’autres horizons afin d’avoir la vie sauve. Après 1804, d’autres familles juives s’installèrent dans la nouvelle Républiqued’Haïti, à la faveur de ce grand réseau commercial de la nation juive en Amérique. La migration levantine de la fin du XIXème siècle allait faire revivre la population juive d’Haïti, menacée d’extinction par la déculturation. Et durant la Shoah, le gouvernement haïtien sauva la vie de centaines de Juifs d’Europe en leur octroyant la nationalité haïtienne. Autant de liens historiques qui unissent le peuple juif à Haïti, pays sans synagogue ni quartier juif.”
[Expelled from Spain in 1492 by the Alhambra Decree, the Jewish people were forced to seek new lands of refuge. The discovery of the New World offered such an opportunity, and some Sephardic families chose to settle on the island of Hispaniola.
Although they contributed to the prosperity of Saint-Domingue, known as the “Pearl of the Antilles,” the Jews of Saint-Domingue were subjected to discriminatory laws enacted by the French monarchy. The French Revolution of 1789 brought new hope for the Jewish people, but the slave uprising of 1791 once again forced them to flee to other lands in order to save their lives.
After 1804, following Haiti’s independence, other Jewish families settled in the new Republic of Haiti, benefiting from the extensive commercial network of Jewish communities throughout the Americas. The Levantine migration of the late nineteenth century revived Haiti’s Jewish population, which had been threatened with extinction through cultural assimilation.
During the Holocaust (Shoah), the Haitian government helped save the lives of hundreds of European Jews by granting them Haitian nationality.]
Table of contents of Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major’s The New Lifetime Reading Plan (HarperCollins,1998).
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Table of contents of Clifton Fadiman and John S. Major’s The New Lifetime Reading Plan (HarperCollins,1998).
1. The Epic of Gilgamesh
2. Homer, The Iliad
3. Homer, The Odyssey
4. Confucius, The Analects
5. Aeschylus, The Oresteia
6. Sophocles, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
7. Euripides, Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, The Trojan Women, Electra, The Bacchae
8. Herodotus, The Histories
9. Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War
10. Sun-tzu, The Art of War
11. Aristophanes, Lysistrata, The Clouds, The Birds
12. Plato, Selected Works13. Aristotle, Ethics, Politics, Poetics
14. Mencius, The Book of Mencius
15. The Ramayana
16. The Mahabharata
17. The Bhagavad Gita
18. Ssu-ma Ch’ien, Records of the Grand Historian
19. Lucretius, On the Nature of Things
20. Virgil, The Aeneid
21. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
22. Saint Augustine, The Confessions
23. Kalidasa, The Cloud Messenger, Sakuntala
24. The Koran
25. Hui-neng, The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
26. Firdausi, Shah Nameh
27. Sei Shônagon, The Pillow Book
28. Lady Murasaki, The Tale of Genji
29. Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat
30. Dante, The Divine Comedy
31. Luo Kuan-chung, The Romance of the Three Kingdoms
32. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
33. The Thousand and One Nights
34. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
35. François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
36. Wu Ch’eng-en, Journey to the West
37. Michel de Montaigne, Selected Essays38. Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
39. William Shakespeare, Complete Works40. John Donne, Selected Works41. The Plum in the Golden Vase (Chin P’ing Mei)
42. Galileo, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
43. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
44. René Descartes, Discourse on Method
45. John Milton, Paradise Lost, Lycidas, On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity, Sonnets, Areopagitica
46. Molière, Selected Plays47. Blaise Pascal, Thoughts (Pensées)
48. John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress
49. John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
50. Matsuo Bashô, The Narrow Road to the Deep North
51. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
52. Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
53. Voltaire, Candide and other works
54. David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
55. Henry Fielding, Tom Jones
56. Ts’ao Hsüeh-ch’in, The Dream of the Red Chamber (a.k.a. The Story of the Stone)
57. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
58. Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
59. James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson
60. Thomas Jefferson and others, Basic Documents in American History (ed. Richard B. Morris)
61. Hamilton, Madison, and Jay, The Federalist Papers (ed. Clinton Rossiter)62. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust
63. William Blake, Selected Works64. William Wordsworth, The Prelude, Selected Shorter Poems, Preface to the Lyrical Ballads
65. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, Christabel, Kubla Khan, Biographia Literaria, Writings on Shakespeare
66. Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, Emma
67. Stendhal, The Red and the Black
68. Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot, Eugénie Grandet, Cousin Bette
69. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Selected Works70. Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, Selected Tales71. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
72. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, The Subjection of Women
73. Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, The Origin of Species
74. Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls
75. Edgar Allan Poe, Short Stories and Other Works76. William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
77. Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend, The Old Curiosity Shop, Little Dorrit
78. Anthony Trollope, The Warden, The Last Chronicle of Barset, The Eustace Diamonds, The Way We Live Now, Autobiography
79. The Brontë Sisters:
79A. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
79B. Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
80. Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Civil Disobedience
81. Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
82. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
83. Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Bartleby the Scrivener
84. George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, Middlemarch
85. Walt Whitman, Selected Poems, Democratic Vistas, Preface to the first issue of Leaves of Grass, A Backward Glance O’er Travelled Roads
86. Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
87.Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov
88. Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
89. Henrick Ibsen, Selected Plays90. Emily Dickenson, Collected Poems91. Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking-Glass
92. Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn
93. Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
94. Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Castorbridge
95. William James, The Principles of Psychology, Pragmatism, Four Essays from The Meaning of Truth, The Varieties of Religious Experience
96. Henry James, The Ambassadors
97. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Genealogy of Morals, Beyond Good and Evil, and other works98. Sigmund Freud, Selected Works, including The Interpretation of Dreams, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality, and Civilization and Its Discontents
99. George Bernard Shaw, Selected Plays and Prefaces100. Joseph Conrad, Nostromo
101. Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, Selected Short Stories102. Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country, The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth
103. William Butler Yeats, Collected Poems, Collected Plays, Autobiography
104. Natsume Sôseki, Kokoro
105. Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past
106. Robert Frost, Collected Poems107. Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain
108. E.M. Forster, A Passage to India
109. Lu Hsün, Collected Short Stories110. James Joyce, Ulysses
111. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, The Waves
112. Franz Kafka, The Trial, The Castle, Selected Short Stories113. D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, Women in Love
114. Junichiro Tanizaki, The Makioka Sisters
115. Eugene O’Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra, The Iceman Cometh, Long Day’s Journey into Night
116. T.S. Eliot, Collected Poems, Collected Plays117. Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
118. William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying
119. Ernest Hemingway, Short Stories120. Yasunari Kawabata, Beauty and Sadness
121. Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths, Dreamtigers
122. Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita; Pale Fire; Speak, Memory
123. George Orwell, Animal Farm, 1984, Burmese Days
124. R.K. Narayan, The English Teacher, The Vendor of Sweets
125. Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Krapp’s Last Tape
126. W.H. Auden, Collected Poems127. Albert Camus, The Plague, The Stranger
128. Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, Herzog, Humboldt’s Gift
129. Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, The First Circle, Cancer Ward
130. Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
131. Yukio Mishima, Confessions of a Mask, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
132. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
133. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
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Appendix I: Other Great Books Lists and Resources
1) Classics Revisited (Rexroth)
2) Great Books of the Western World (Adler et al.)
3) The New Lifetime Reading Plan (Fadiman & Major)
4) A Guide to Oriental Classics (de Bary et al.)
5) Pour une Bibliothèque Idéale (Queneau)
6) Online Book Lists and Resources
American Evangelicalism & Social Ethics
I recently heard a reformed Black theologian argue that American evangelicalism lacks a coherent doctrine of social ethics. According to his critique, evangelicals often insist, “Just teach the Bible, and God will do the rest,” yet they provide little theological framework for engaging the social, cultural, political, and economic realities that shape human life. As a result, the tradition has often struggled to articulate how Christian faith should address systemic injustice, racial inequality, economic disparities, and the responsibilities of believers in the public square. His argument was not that Scripture is inadequate or irrelevant to these matters, but that many evangelical communities have failed to develop a robust social ethic that connects biblical theology to the complex moral challenges of contemporary society.
What are your thoughts on this matter?
“Grateful Farewell to San Jacinto College: Reflections on Four Years of Leadership and Service”
“Grateful Farewell to San Jacinto College: Reflections on Four Years of Leadership and Service”
Today, Friday, July 17, 2026, marks my final day at San Jacinto College, where I have had the privilege of serving as Chair of the English Department for the past four years. It has been both an honor and a joy to lead an exceptional team of 37 talented, student-centered faculty members and staff. Together, our full-time and part-time faculty have remained deeply committed to student success, the English department, and to advancing the mission of San Jacinto College.
These four years have been among the most meaningful of my professional life. I have built lasting friendships and created memories that I will always cherish. Among the greatest joys of my role was taking the time to connect with faculty members, checking in to see how they were doing, supporting their professional growth, and celebrating their accomplishments. I also treasured the opportunity to continue teaching students and witnessing their intellectual, personal, and professional development.
I am especially grateful to Dean DeRhonda McWaine, who has been one of the finest supervisors and leaders with whom I have had the privilege to work. Her mentorship, unwavering support, thoughtful guidance, and wise counsel have shaped me into a better leader, educator, and person. I will always be thankful for her confidence in me and the opportunities she provided throughout my tenure.
As I close this chapter, I will deeply miss the English Department, my colleagues, friends, and, above all, the students who have made my experience at San Jacinto College so rewarding.
I leave San Jacinto College with a heart full of gratitude as I embark on a new chapter of my academic career. Beginning this fall semester, I am honored to begin serving as Professor of English and Endowed Chair in American Studies at Louisiana State University Shreveport (LSUS). I look forward to embracing new opportunities for teaching, scholarship, leadership, and service, while building meaningful relationships with new colleagues and students at LSUS. I am excited to invest in their success, contribute to the university’s mission, and continue growing as a scholar, educator, and leader.
To everyone at San Jacinto College, thank you for your friendship, trust, support, and partnership over these past four years. San Jac will always hold a special place in my heart.
Celucien L. Joseph, PhD, Professor | Author | Public Scholar | Academic Consultant 