Charlot Lucien

Charlot Lucien is an Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) scholar at the University of Massachusetts (Boston), where he presents lectures focusing on the historical connections between the U.S. and Haiti. He has presented for years on Haiti's culture and history in various academic and cultural venues in the U.S., France, Haiti, and Canada, often examining the intersections between the U.S. abolitionist movement and the Haitian revolution (Mapping Haiti Onto the U.S. History).

He has been active more recently raising awareness about a framework to advance the issue of restitution of the historical "independence debt" Haiti paid to France, and its contextualization within the larger reparation agenda. He has presented on this topic as a speaker or a panelist for the National Council on Public History, the University of Miami School of Law, the National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America (COBRA), and the Permanent Forum of People of African Descent (PFPAD) at the United Nations. He is the author of The Lost Haitian Generation and the 1826 "French Debt": The Case for Restitution in the University of Miami Inter-American Law Review (2023).

He holds membership with various civic/humanitarian organizations, including the National Council of Public History, Groupe of Reflection and Action for a New Haiti (GRAHN), the West African Research Association (WARA), the Toussaint Louverture Cultural Center, the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti (IJDH), and the Haitian Artists Assembly of Massachusetts.

Charlot Lucien is a graduate of the State University of Haiti's School of Management and hold a master's degree in international relations from the University of Massachusetts.