VISITING SCHOLARS

Carlo Handy Charles

Dr. Carlo Handy Charles (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Windsor and a Visiting Scholar in the Digital Intimacy, Gender, and Sexuality Lab at Concordia University. He is also a former Vanier Scholar, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Scholar, and a Fellow at the Institut Convergences Migrations at the CNRS and Collège de France in Paris. His current book project with the University of Chicago Press examines how socio-economic inequalities, sexuality, and space shape transnational same-sex intimate relationships among Haitian men in Haiti, the United States, Canada, France, Brazil, Chile, and the Dominican Republic. He received a Ph.D. in Sociology at McMaster University and a Ph.D. in Geography at the Université des Antilles in 2023. Prior to joining the University of Windsor, he taught Sociology at McMaster University and French at L'Alliance Française de Toronto and L'Alliance Française de Caracas (Venezuela). Beyond academia, he is an award-winning essayist and the co-author of the critically acclaimed Kap O Mond, a play focusing on Haitian migration in France. He is also a public policy advisor, currently working on the Toronto Francophone Affairs Advisory Committee. His publications have appeared in over two dozen academic journals and news media in Canada and internationally. For more information about him and his research, please visit: www.uwindsor.ca/sociology/CarloCharles. Dr. Charles visited the DIGS Lab from May-June 2024.