Camille Louis

Overview

Dr. Camille Louis is a historical archaeologist whose research focuses on the archaeology of resistance. He received his PhD in Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz where he specialized in maroon archaeology and the study of material culture in the transatlantic world. He was trained by the Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery and the Monticello Department of Archaeology on material culture analysis of the transatlantic world. He received extensive training in maritime archaeology from the Diving With a Purpose and the Smithsonian Slave Wrecks Project Academies. His research draws on archival documents of escapees from plantations, map analysis, oral memories of maroon settlements, GIS-based predictive modeling, and archaeological survey exploring the interconnected nature of maroon communities in colonial Saint-Domingue, present-day Haiti. In addition to his research, Dr. Louis served as Director of Conservation for the National Museum of Haiti, taught at the Université d’Etat d’Haïti, Lecturer at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and has participated in archaeological fieldwork in various regions around the world.