Petrouchka Moïse is a 2020–24 CLIR/Mellon postdoctoral fellow in data curation for Haitian visual arts. She works jointly with the Grinnell College Library and the Waterloo Center for the Arts and plays a central role in coordinating the Haitian Art Digital Crossroads (HADC) Project. The HADC aims to make the Haitian art collection of the Waterloo Center for the Arts, the largest publicly held collection of Haitian art in the world, digitally accessible as a preparatory study to create a digital hub of online resources in Haitian and Caribbean studies. In addition to managing this project, she also coordinates and manages the collaboration with cultural and academic institutes within Haiti and the diaspora to build awareness of this collection. For the past three years, Moïse has served on the board of directors of the Haitian Studies Association, promoting the scholarship of art and art history. She has also served on the Grinnell Steering Committee to establish the launch of the Department of African Diaspora Studies, for which Moïse will serve as the library consultant. In 2022, Moïse accepted a tenure-track position as assistant professor and cultural and community-based digital curator at Grinnell College.
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