I write on a variety of topics, including democracy, culture, music, politics, immigration, Haiti, global crises, American thought, American evangelicalism, faith, justice, racial justice, racial reconciliation, family, human rights, happiness, the good life, etc. So I kindly invite you to check out my commentary and op-eds in various online magazines, newspapers, and media outlets

• “Haïtiens : Nous devons reconstruire notre pays!” (Rezo Nòdwès, June 27, 2026)
• “Rooted in Resilience and Future Hope: A Letter to Young Haitian Immigrants Living in the United States” (Rezo Nòdwès, September 16, 2025)
• “The Gospel beyond borders and Christian nationalism: Call to compassion, justice and solidarity with immigrant Christians” (The Haitian Times, September 05, 2025)
• “Après le TPS : Un appel à la mobilisation, au plaidoyer et à la reconstruction pour les Haïtiens” (Rezo Nòdwès, July 1, 2025)
• “Se Kongo nou ye/ Se nèg Nago nou ye”: A Call to Remember, Change, and a new Direction in Haiti from Zenglen” (Rezo Nòdwès, July 10, 2023)
• “The U.S. Must Stop Deporting Haitians” (Haïti Liberté, June 14, 2022)
• “A call to stop US deportation of Haitians” (Rezo Nòdwès, June 11, 2022)
• “The ‘Indemnity’ of 1825: The Haitian Receipts” (Rezo Nòdwès, June 10, 2022)
• “Shame on US scholars, writers for intellectual imperialism against Haitians” (The Haitian Times, June 02, 2022)
• “Nou Bouke: We are Tired!” (Ayibopost, July 20, 2021), https://ayibopost.com/opinion-nou-bouke-we-are-tired/
• “A Brief History of Presidential Deaths in Haiti” (The Haitian Times, July 11, 2021)
• “The Early African Framers of the Christian Faith: Selected Important Works of Early African Christian Literature in the First 600 Years of Christianity,” (The Witness, 2020), The Early African Framers of the Christian Faith | The Witness (thewitnessbcc.com)
• “Ahmaud Arbery, the Killing of Whiteness, & the Preservation of Black Lives in America,” (The Witness, 2020)
• “Revisiting Caribbean Theological Tradition: 20 Haitian Theologians and Biblical Scholars You Should Know” (The Global Church Project: Centre for the Research of Global Christianity, 2020)
• “Rethinking Haiti & The Haitian People in The Twenty-First Century” (L’union Suite, 2019)
•  “One More Word about the Gospel, Cultural Marxism, and Social Justice” (The Witness, 2019)
• “One More Word about the Gospel, Cultural Marxism, and Social Justice: Moving Forward” (The Witness, 2019)
• “The Case for the ‘Black Church’ and ‘Haitian Vodou’: The Misappropriation of the Concept of Culture in Black Diasporic Religions” (The Haitian Times, 2018)
• “9 Crises And Weaknesses Of The Haitian-American Church” (Part I) (The Haitian Times, 2018)
• “The Crisis And Failure Of The Haitian-American Church” (Part II) (The Haitian Times, 2018)
• “Presenting the Beautiful Gospel: Ten Theses about Contemporary Christian International Mission and Cross-Cultural Evangelization” (The Pneuma Review, 2018)
•  “Viv Manno Charlemagne, Long Live the Haitian Poor” (L’union Suite, 2017)
• “Manno” Charlemagne: “Viv Manno Charlemagne, Long Live the Haitian Poor” (L’union Suite, 2017)
• ” Vodou is not a Country, and Haiti is not a Religion!” (L’union Suite, 2017)
• “The Message of Jesus vs. Political-Bourgeois American Christianity” (The Witness, 2017) https://thewitnessbcc.com/message-jesus-vs-political-bourgeois-american-christianity/
•  “Interpreting Haiti’s Revolution” (Caribbean Journal, 2013)
• “Haiti’s Intellectual History” (Caribbean Journal, 2013)
• “From Toussaint to Price-Mars: Reflections on Haiti’s Intellectual History” (The JSF-Post, 2013)

Below, you will find selected academic writings, such as peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries on a variety of topics.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles 

“The Attitude of Vodouyizan towards Christians in Haiti: A Case for Interreligious Dialogue and Education.” Black Theology (2025): 1-34.

“The Meaning of James H. Cone and the Significance of Black Theology: Some Reflections on His Legacy.” Black Theology 18.2 (2020): 112-143.

“James Cone and the Crisis of American Theology,” Missionala Vol 46, No (2) (2019), 197-221.

“Theodicy and Black Theological Anthropology in James Cone’s Theological Identity,” Toronto Journal of Theology, (July 12, 2019):1-29.

“Towards a Caribbean Political Theology of Emancipation and Decolonization: A Comparative Analysis of Four Caribbean Theologians,” Black Theology: An International Journal (2018):1-34, DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2018.1460553.

“Toward a Black African Theological Anthropology and Ubuntu Ethics,” Journal of Religion and Theology Volume 2, Issue 1, 2018: 16-30.

“Jean Price-Mars and Contemporary Scholarship on African Traditional Religion,” Africology: The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol 11, no 5 (April 2018):9-55.

“James Cone: The Vocation of Christian Theology and the Christian Church Today,” Africology: The Journal of Pan Africana Studies, vol. 12, no. 7, (December 2, 2018): 8-58.

“Viv Dechoukaj, Long Live Uprooting! Aristide’s Politico-Theology of Defensive Violence in the Struggle for Democracy in Haiti,” Black Theology: An International Journal, Vol 15 (3), 2017:185-208.

” Beyond Ethnic Blackness: Black Transnational Consciousness (BTC) and the Practice of Black Intertextuality” (English Version), Vanguard / vol. 1(1) / 2017 /43-68.

“Más Allá de la Negrura Étnica: La Conciencia Transnacional Negra y la Práctica de la Intertextualidad Negra (Spanish Version), Vanguardia/ vol. 1(1) / 2017 /44-70.

““Shipwreck of Faith”: The Religious Vision and Ideas of Wole Soyinka,” Toronto School of Theology, 32: 1 (2016): 51-69.

“Redefining cultural, national, and religious identity: The Christian–Vodouist dialogue?” Theology Today, 2016, Vol. 73(3) 241–262.

On Intellectual Reparations: Hegel, Franklin Tavarès, Susan Buck-Morss, Revolutionary Haiti, and Caribbean Philosophical Association,” Africology: Journal of Pan African Studies, vol 9, no 7/9, (2016):167-175.

“Redefining cultural, national, and religious identity: The Christian–Vodouist dialogue?” Theology Today, 2016, Vol. 73(3) 241–262.

“Introduction, Rethinking Wole Soyinka: 80 Years of Protracted Engagement,” The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.8, no. 5 September 2015), 1-12.

“The Arrogance of Faith and Religious Imperialism: Soyinka’s Radical Theistic Humanism and Generous Tolerance, “The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.8, no. 5 September 2015), 19-63.

“Wole Soyinka: Chronology and Selected Bibliography,” The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.8, no. 5 September 2015), 190-195.

Special Guest Editor “Wole Soyinka: 80 Years of Protracted Engagement,” The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.8, no. 5 September 2015), 1-195. 

“Antenor Firmin, the ‘Egyptian Question’ and the Afrocentric Imagination. The Journal of Pan African Studies. Great African-Centered Thinker: Antenor Firmin, 1850-1911: Africologist, Anthropologist, Egyptologist, Haitian Diplomat, Pan Africanist: Special Edition (Winter 2014): 119-171.

“The Problem of and Impossibility of Vodou in the Writings of Dantes Bellegarde,” The Journal of Pan African Studies6:8 (March 2014):1-24.

“Toward a Politico-Theology of Relationality: Justice as Solidarity and the Poor in Aristide’s Theological Imagination,” Toronto School of Theology 30: 2 (December 2014): 269-300.

“Memory, the Spirit of the Revolution, and Slave Religion: The Representation of the Haitian Revolution in Langston Hughes’s Emperor of Haiti,” Journal of Postcolonial Theory and Theology 4:1 (April 2013): 1-35.

“Faith, Secular Humanism, and Development: A Reading of Jacques Roumain’s Religious Sensibility and Marxist Rhetoric,” Journal of Postcolonial Networks, Volume 3, Issue 1 (June 2013):1-50.

“’The Haitian Turn’: Haiti, the Black Atlantic, and Black Transnational Consciousness” (Thesis Abstract) West Africa Review (January 2012).

“Prophetic Religion, Violence, and Black Freedom: Reading Makandal’s Project of Black Liberation through A Fanonian postcolonial lens of decolonization and theory of revolutionary humanism,” Black Theology: An International Journal (2012): 9:3.

“’The Haitian Turn’: An Appraisal of Recent Literary and Historiographical Works on the Haitian Revolution,” The Journal of Pan African Studies, 5:6 (September 2012):37-55.

“The Rhetoric of Suffering, Hope, and Redemption in Masters of the Dew: A Rhetorical and Politico-Theological Analysis of Manuel as Peasant-Messiah and Redeemer,” Memphis Theological Seminary Journal, 51 (2012):1-36.

“The Religious Philosophy of Jean Price-Mars,” Journal of Black Studies 43:6 (September 2012):620-645.

 “Prophetic Religion, Violence, and Black Freedom: Reading Makandal’s Project of Black Liberation through A Fanonian postcolonial lens of decolonization and theory of revolutionary humanism,” Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion 3:4 (August 2012):1-30.

“The Rhetoric of Prayer: Dutty Boukman, The Discourse of “Freedom from Below,” and the Politics of God,” Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion 2:9 (June 2011):1-33.

“The Religious Imagination and Ideas of Jean Price-Mars (Part 1),” Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion 2:14 (December 2011):1-31.

“How Did People in the High Middle Ages Treat Their Children? A Look at Medieval Children through the Eyes of the Church?”  University of Louisville: The Medieval Scholar, Critical Issues of the High Middle Ages: 1000-1350 (2005): 1-13.

Book Chapters

“Understanding Haitian Evangelicalism, Vodou, and Catholicism in Local and Transnational-Diasporic Context.” Celucien L. Joseph and Lewis Clormeus, eds, Evangelicals, Catholics, and Vodouyizan in Haiti: The Challenges of Living Together (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024): 1-7.

“In Praise of Peace and Reconciliation: Vodouist-Protestant Christian Imagination and the Roots of Religious Disagreement.” Celucien L. Joseph and Lewis Clormeus, eds, Evangelicals, Catholics, and Vodouyizan in Haiti: The Challenges of Living Together (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024): 55-86.

“Making Peace and Strengthening Human relationships through Interreligious Dialogue and Engagement.” Celucien L. Joseph, Charlene Desir, and Lewis Clormeus, eds, Vodou and Christianity in Interreligious Dialogue (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2023): 1-14.

“In Praise of Peace, Reconciliation, and Nation-Building.” Celucien L. Joseph, Charlene Desir, and Lewis Clormeus, eds, Vodou and Christianity in Interreligious Dialogue (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2023): 226-253.

“Firmin, Global History, and the End of Race.” Celucien L. Joseph and Paul C. Mocombe, eds, Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities (Routledge, 2021): 1-7.

“Forms of Firminism: Understanding Joseph Anténor Firmin.” Celucien L. Joseph and Paul C. Mocombe, eds, Reconstructing the Social Sciences and Humanities (Routledge, 2021): 86-120.

« Pour Comprendre Joseph Antenor Firmin. » Herve Fanini-Lemoine, A. Vertulie Vincent, and Jean-Robert Alexandre, eds, Plus de 500 ans d’histoire : où en sommes-nous ? (Kiskeya Publishing Co, 2021): 215-262.

“Edwidge Danticat in a Global Classroom and Transnational Context: Rethinking Pedagogy, Transcultural Community, and Engaged Learning.” Celucien L. Joseph, Suchismita Banerjee, Marvin E. Hobson, and Danny M. Hoey Jr., eds, Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat (Routledge, 2020): 1-10.

“A Comprehensive Resource Guide to Reading and Teaching Brother, I’m Dying: Background, History, and Context: Part A.” Celucien L. Joseph, Suchismita Banerjee, Marvin E. Hobson, and Danny M. Hoey Jr., eds, Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat (Routledge, 2020): 180-216.

“A Comprehensive Resource Guide to Reading and Teaching Brother, I’m Dying: Criticisms, Thematic Analysis, & An Eight-Week Teaching Model: Part B.” Celucien L. Joseph, Suchismita Banerjee, Marvin E. Hobson, and Danny M. Hoey Jr., eds, Approaches to Teaching the Works of Edwidge Danticat (Routledge, 2020): 217-262.

“Price-Mars in a Local and Global Context: Rethinking Haitian Culture and Human History.” Celucien L. Joseph, Glodel Mezilas, and Jean Eddy Saint Paul, eds, Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa (Lexington Books, 2018): ix-xvii.

“The Possibility and Impossibility of God in Africa: Price-Mars, the African Islamic Tradition, and Early African Christianity.” Celucien L. Joseph, Glodel Mezilas, and Jean Eddy Saint Paul, eds, Between Two Worlds: Jean Price-Mars, Haiti, and Africa (Lexington Books, 2018): 223-256.

“Contemporary and Transnational Vodou, and the African Perspective.” Celucien L. Joseph and Nixon S. Cleophat, eds, Vodou in the Haitian Experience: A Black Atlantic Perspective (Lexington Books, 2016):1-9.

“Contemporary and Transnational Vodou, and the African Perspective.” Celucien L. Joseph and Nixon S. Cleophat, eds, Vodou in Haitian Memory: The Idea and Representation of Vodou in Haitian Imagination (Lexington Books, 2016): xiii-xx.

“The Role of Vodou in the Religious Philosophy of Jean Price-Mars.” Celucien L. Joseph and Nixon S. Cleophat, eds, Vodou in Haitian Memory: The Idea and Representation of Vodou in Haitian Imagination (Lexington Books, 2016): 33-52.

“Vodouphobia and Afrophobic Discourse in Haitian Thought: An Analys of Dantes Bellegarde’s Religious Sensibility.” Celucien L. Joseph and Nixon S. Cleophat, eds, Vodou in Haitian Memory: The Idea and Representation of Vodou in Haitian Imagination (Lexington Books, 2016): 79-100.

Encyclopedia Entries

Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography edited Henry Louis Gates, “Rene Philoctete,” “Laennec Hurbon,” and “Franketienne” (Oxford University Press, 2016) 

Vodou Encyclopedia for ABC-Clio Press edited by Jeffrey Anderson, “Dutty Boukman,” “J.C. Dorsainvil,” “Jean Price-Mars,” “Bondye,” and “Patrick Bellegarde-Smith” (published in 2015)

Encyclopedia of Human Services and Diversity edited by Lindwood H. Cousins and J. Geoffrey Golson, “Haitian-Americans” (published in 2015)

Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopedia, General Editors: Dr. Carlos E. Cortés, “African American Episcopal Church,” “The Souls of Black Folk,” and “Afrocentrism” (published in 2014)

Translation Works

“The Reception of Protestant Students in Catholic Schools in Port-au-Prince, Haiti,” by Lewis A. Clormeus, translated by Celucien L. Joseph and Lewis Clormeus, eds, Evangelicals, Catholics, and Vodouyizan in Haiti: The Challenges of Living Together (Bloomsbury Academic, 2024): 11-40

“Itinerary of the Dialogue between the Catholic Church and Vodou: The Weight of the Social Sciences,” by Lewis A. Clormeus, translated by Celucien L. Joseph. Celucien L. Joseph, Charlene Desir, and Lewis Clormeus, eds, Vodou and Christianity in Interreligious Dialogue (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2023): 29-70.

“Milestones for a Sincere and Promising Dialogue between Christians and Vodouists in Haiti,” by Henry Claude Telusma, translated by Celucien L. Joseph. Celucien L. Joseph, Charlene Desir, and Lewis Clormeus, eds, Vodou and Christianity in Interreligious Dialogue (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2023): 137-166.

“Vodou and Haitian Pentecostal Churches in Migration: The Difficulties of Interreligious Dialogue in France,” by Bodeler Julien and Harry Moise, translated by Celucien L. Joseph. Celucien L. Joseph, Charlene Desir, and Lewis Clormeus, eds, Vodou and Christianity in Interreligious Dialogue (Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2023): 206-225.

“À Anténor FIRMIN (1850-1911), égyptologue haïtien” (“To Anténor Firmin [1850-1911] Haitian Egyptologist”) byThéophile Obenga, ANKH 17 (2008):132-147. Published in The Journal of Pan African Studies. Great African-Centered Thinker: Antenor Firmin, 1850-1911: Africologist, Anthropologist, Egyptologist, Haitian Diplomat, Pan Africanist: Special Edition (Winter 2014): 101-118.