Sony Jean
Post doc
- Name
- Dr. J.S. Jean
- Telephone
- 071 5272727
- jean@kitlv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-4919-5086
Joseph (Sony) Jean is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leiden University Institute for History and affiliated researcher at KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies.
Joseph (Sony) Jean is a postdoctoral researcher at the Leiden University Institute for History and affiliated researcher at KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies. As an archaeologist, his work focuses on the longue-durée landscape transformation of Haiti from the Amerindian occupation to the contemporary society. Sony combines ethnographic research material culture studies, visual and textual documents, interviews, and participant observations in his work.
Sony holds a Bachelor’s degree in History of Art and Archaeology from the Université d’Etat d’Haiti and has studied both History and Archaeology at the University of the West Indies, Mona campus, in Jamaica. He earned a Research Master’s degree from Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail in France and a PhD in Caribbean Archaeology from Leiden University.
He is the co-editor of the book: Local Voices, Global Debates: The Uses of Archaeological Heritage in the Caribbean.
Currently, Sony is leading an NWO-Veni project (2022-2025), investigating archaeological sites and examining contemporary practices and interactions with heritage in postcolonial societies. By innovatively integrating archaeology, ethnography, and heritage studies, Sony’s work centers on Haiti—the world’s first Black Republic—to highlight the importance of engaging historically marginalized communities in creating inclusive narratives of the past and heritage.
Post doc
- Gelieerde instellingen
- Kon Inst Taal-, Land en Volkenkunde
Postdoc
- Faculty of Humanities
- Institute for History
- Dutch and Colonial History
- Casale S.C., Jean J.S., Capelli C., Braekmans D.J.G., Degryse P.A.I.H. & Hofman C.L. (2021), Transatlantic connections in colonial and post-colonial Haiti: archaeometric evidence for taches noires glazed tableware imported from Albissola, Italy to Fort Liberté, Haiti, International Journal of Historical Archaeology 25: 423–447.
- Jean J.S., Sonnemann T.F. & Hofman C.L. (2021), Complex landscape biographies: palimpsests of Fort-Liberté, Haiti, Landscape Research : 1-20.
- Jean J.S. (10 September 2019), La biographie d’un paysage. Etude sur les transformations de longue durée du paysage culturel de la région de Fort-Liberté, Haïti (Dissertatie. Department of World Archaeology, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University). Leiden: Sidestone Press. Supervisor(s) and Co-supervisor(s): Hofman C.L., Sonnemann T. & Rostain S.
- Casale S., Capelli C., Braekmans D., Degryse P., Hofman C., Gavagnin S. & Jean J.S. (2019), La ceramica a Taches Noires albisolese e la sua distribuzione nel mercato coloniale. Un caso di studio archeometrico da Haiti. In: , Ceramica 4.0: Nuove Esperienze e tecnologie per la comunicazione, catalogazione e musealizzazione della ceramica. Atti dei Convegni Internazionali della Ceramica. Sesto Fiorentino (FI): All'Insegna del Giglio s.a.s.. 123-127.
- Hofman C.L., Ulloa Hung J., Herrera Malatesta E.N., Jean J.S., Sonnemann T.F. & Hoogland M.L.P. (2018), Indigenous Caribbean perspectives: archaeologies and legacies of the first colonised region in the New World, Antiquity 92(361): 200-216.
- Jean J.S. & Hofman C.L. (2018), Dynamiques interculturelles des traces mémorielles amérindiennes d'Haïti. In: Aje L. & Gachon N. (Eds.), La Mémoire de l'Esclavage. Traces mémorielles de l'esclavage et des traites dans l'espace atlantique. Paris: Edition L'Harmattan.