Leslie Desmangles, Trinity College,
Hartford, Connecticut

Dr. Leslie G. Desmangles is Professor of Religion and International Studies at Trinity College in Hartford. A native of Haiti, he was educated in Haiti, Canada and the United States and holds a Ph.D. degree in Anthropology of Religion (Religion and Culture) from Temple University in Philadelphia.

He has traveled extensively throughout the Caribbean and Africa and conducted research there. He is the author many articles and a book. The Faces of the Gods: Vodou and Roman Catholicism in Haiti was published by the University of North Carolina Press in 1993. He also edited a volume entitled, Haiti in the Global Context, a collection of essays published under the auspices of the Haitian Studies Association in 1995.

He also served as associate editor of the Encyclopedia of African and African American Religions published by Routledge Press in February 2001. Leslie has served frequently as an adviser to the State Department about issues related to politics and religion in Haiti and in the Caribbean generally.

He is currently teaching in the Department of Religion and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.