Degrees
Doctorate in History, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2017
Masters in History, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2011
Bachelors in History with a minor in African American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2008
Fellowships
Humanities 2020 Grant Fellow: Race in Chicago, Lake Forest College, 2020-2023
Bright Institute Fellow, Knox College, 2018-2022
Digital Chicago Fellow, Lake Forest College , 2018
Mellon Foundation Email Archive Task Force Fellow, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2016-2017
Publications
Invisibly Visible: A Community History of Haitians in Chicago (book manuscript in progress)
C. Pierre Joseph. “Diasporic ambassadors: Black women, pageants, and building connections across the African diaspora in the late twentieth century.” African and Black Diaspora: An International Journal, Volume 14, Issue 1, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/17528631.2022.2041914
C. Pierre Joseph. “Life in Bronzeville: The Humanist Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks,” in A History of Chicago Literature, edited by Frederik Bryn Køhlert. (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, October 2021).
C. Pierre Joseph. “Being Black and Bicultural: Racial and Ethnic Identity Formation of Haitian Americans in Chicago” in Pan African Spaces: Essays on Black Transnationalism, edited by Msia Kibona Clark, Loy Azalia, and Phiwokuhle Mnyandu. (Lexington Books, Lanham MD: 2019).
C. Pierre Joseph. “Book Review: A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History by Jeanne Theoharis.” in The Public Historian, Volume 40, Number 4, November 2018.
C. Pierre Cain. “Book Review: Battle for Bed-Stuy: The Long War on Poverty in New York City by Michael Woodsworth.” in The Black Scholar: Journal of Black Studies and Research, Volume 48, Issue 2, April 2018.
C. Cain “Book Review: The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black Politics by Adam Ewing.” in Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International, Volume 7, Issue 2, 2018.
C. Cain. “Sneakers,” “The Box,” and “Common” entries in The St. James Encyclopedia of Hip Hop Culture. (St. James Press, 2018).
C. Cain. “Ou Ayisyen? The Making of a Haitian Diasporic Community Haiti in Chicago, 1933-2010” Dissertation, 2017
Digital Projects
Deeply Rooted and Rising High: African American Experiences in Lake Forest, IL, NARA funded project in collaboration with the History Center of Lake Forest-Lake Bluff
Dr. Courtney Joseph Oral History Project, collaboration with the Haitian American Museum of Chicago, 2021
Spaces and Stories: Haitian Churches and Oral Histories in Chicago, 2018