ABSTRACT
Among Haiti’s professional geographers, Georges Anglade was legendary. Born in Petionville, a middle-class section of Port-au-Prince, ten years after the American occupation of Haiti ended, Anglade came of age at a time when air travel and post–World War II economic and geopolitical shifts opened up the world. He left Haiti—for the first time—to study inStrasbourg, France in 1965, the date after François Duvalier declared himself “president for life.” After earning a doctorate in geography in 1969, Anglade made his way to Montréal, Canada where he served as professor of social geography at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQÀM) until his retirementin 2002. His research took him to the Bahamas, to Venezuela, Nigeria, Djibouti in Northeast Africa and back to Europe many times; but his was not (only) the privileged life of a nomadic scholar. He served Haiti in official and unofficial capacities, exemplifying the full range of nationalist and long-distance nationalist actions on behalf of his ancestral home: lobbying, contributing money, creating works of art, even dying (Glick Schiller 2005,270). Anglade and his wife of forty-three years, Mireille Neptune Anglade, died in Port-au-Prince in the aftermath of the catastrophic earthquake of Tuesday, January 12, 2010.
