The RSHHGG Lab External is an interactive online index of over 90 years of the Revue de la Société Haïtienne d’Histoire, de Géographie et de Géologie, the official publication of Haiti’s oldest intellectual society that is still active today. By indexing the contents of the journal, the site aims to increase the impact of this important publication by facilitating the work of scholars of Haiti in the US, Haiti, and beyond.
Published September 2017
Documentation
Chelsea gave a lightning talk on the project called "Caribbean Periodicals and the Catalog: Expanding Access and Impact" at Collections as Data: IMPACT 2017. Her talk begins at 6:35:15 of the archived live stream External.
About Chelsea
Chelsea Stieber is an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. She received her PhD jointly from the Department of French and Institute of French Studies at New York University in 2013.
She recently completed a yearlong fellowship at the John W. Kluge center at the Library of Congress, where she worked on her book manuscript about civil war and post-independence writing in Haiti, entitled “Haiti’s Paper War: Post-Independence Writing and the Making of the Republic, 1804–1954.” Her work has appeared in the journals French Studies and Francosphères, as well as in edited volumes.