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3 April 2025 HWS History Department Welcomes Sabine Cadeau
The HWS History Department will welcome Professor Sabine Cadeau of McGill University to campus on April 10th. Cadeau will speak on the 1937 Haitian Massacre in the Dominican Republic as part of the annual Huff Lecture Series.
The HWS History Department and the Robert Huff Lecture Series will welcome Professor Sabine Cadeau as this year’s guest lecturer to campus. Cadeau’s talk, “Rethinking the 1937 Haitian Massacre in the Dominican Republic,” will be held on Thursday, April 10th in the Geneva Room of the Warren Hunting Smith Library at 6:00 p.m. The event is open to the public.
Cadeau is a historian of Modern Latin America and the Caribbean at McGill University. She authored the book More than Massacre: Racial Violence and Citizenship in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands, which was awarded the Bryce Wood Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association and the Raphael Lemkin Book Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide in 2023.
Cadeau’s lecture will discuss the 1937 Haitian Massacre in the Dominican Republic, in light of recent archival evidence and using oral histories from the last surviving victims. This massacre was one of the largest single occurrences of racial violence in the Americas during the twentieth century, where an estimated 20,000 ethnic Haitians were killed along the Dominican border on the orders of dictator Rafael Trujillo.
This annual event was established in honor of Robert A. Huff, Professor of History at HWS from 1962 to 1992.
