American anthropologist

J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat (born 1970) is an American cultural anthropologist with a specialization in Haiti.

Early life and education

Kovats-Bernat was raised in Kensington, a Philadelphia neighborhood, and Allentown, Pennsylvania. He earned his bachelor's degree in philosophy and anthropology from Muhlenberg College in 1993, and his Ph.D. in anthropology from Temple University in 2001, with a dissertation on street children in Port-au-Prince.

Career

Kovats-Bernat worked as a faculty member at Muhlenberg College since 2001 and has been a visiting *istant professor at Shippensburg University since 2018. His recent research has focused on Vodou and Haitian witchcraft; in 2014 he received a grant from the National Geographic Society for fieldwork in Haiti about the rites of zombification.

Publications

In 2006 he published Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti.

Personal life

Kovats-Bernat is married to Dina, whom he met at Muhlenberg College.

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