Bryant Freeman
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Who is Bryant Freeman?
Bryant Freeman is a professor at the University of Kansas. He is primarily known for being the founder and director of the University of Kansas Institute of Haitian Studies, one of the few such institutes in a major university in the United States. Freeman received his Ph.D. in French from Yale University, specializing in the work of Jean Racine.
He has also been an instructor for the United Nations Observers in Haiti, an advisor for U.S. and U.N. Peace-Keeping Forces in Haiti, receiving the protocol rank of Major General.
His awards include:
Lifetime Achievement Award for Service to the Haitian People
U.S. Department of Justice Commissioner's Special Service Award
Kansas Humanities Council Award, Kansas French Educator of the Year
Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Phi Beta Kappa
Yale University Fellow, Fulbright Scholar
Among his several publications include one of the most comprehensive dictionaries of Haitian Creole to English ever made, as well as specialty dictionaries such as medical terminology. He edited a collection of the works of CarriƩ Paultre, a leading Haitian novelist. He was specifically asked by the U.S. State Department in 2004 to translate a letter written by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, to determine if he had actually stated his resignation.
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- United States of America
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- Yale University
- Employment
- University of Kansas
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on July 23, 2013
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