Dr. Banks’s last publication was a book review of W. Jason Miller’s Langston Hughes and American Lynching Culture in African American Review. Her manuscript project, Reading/Righting Blackness through Haiti, 1936-1971, examines how travel narratives about Haiti participated in the global construction of race in this period. Key literary and cultural figures in this period include Zora Neale Hurston, Katherine Dunham, Melville Herskovits, and Harold Courlander. Louise Barré completed her higher education in France where she obtained l'Agrégation d'Histoire at l'Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon. She moved in the U.S. to do a Masters in International and World History. She has been working on migrants' activism in the suburbs of Paris in the 1970s. Now, she specializes in contemporary West African history, where she intends to ally her interest in gender and migrations.