Carlo Charles

Dr. Carlo Handy Charles is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Windsor, a Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor, and a Research Fellow at the CNRS French Collaborative Institute on Migrations in Paris. His current book project examines the meanings and impacts of queer transnational relationships on Haiti and its diaspora. He has won over 20 awards for his research and leadership. His research has been supported by Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR), the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, and France's National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) Foundation, among others. In addition to his community-based research projects and op-eds in the media, Dr. Charles uses creative writing to disseminate knowledge to audiences outside academia through research-based art. In 2022, he co-authored the play 'Kap O Mond!', which opened in Paris and has since been produced in nearly a dozen theatres in France and the Caribbean. In 2024, he launched Histoire de Louis, his first manga on queer sexuality and migration in Haiti. Charles has used his research on the socio-cultural and political integration of landed immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers to contribute to public debates on how border closures, in response to COVID-19, have raised concerns about the legal status, human rights, and dignity of many temporary foreign residents. He is a member of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation’s COVID-19 Impact Committee. For more information about him, visit his website: https://carlohandycharles.com/