Caryn Cossé Bell is associate professor of history at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. She is an internationally recognized authority on Creole New Orleans and her award-winning book, Revolution, Romanticism, and the Afro-Creole Protest Tradition in Louisiana, 1718-1868, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Her latest work for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture for the African American Migration Experience chronicles Haitian immigration to Louisiana and will appear in a National Geographic publication. She has worked on documentaries for PBS, A&E, and Xavier University on A House Divided, a study of the New Orleans Civil Rights movement narrated by James Earl Jones. She is also a John E. Sawyer Fellow at Harvard University's Longfellow Institute.