Dr. Joseph Sony Jean

Joseph Sony Jean is an Haitian archaeologist. He has a bachelor in History of Art and Archaeology from the Université d’Etat d’Haiti and studied both History and Archaeology at the University of the West Indies Mona campus in Jamaica. He holds a Research Master from the Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail in France. From 2014 Sony worked on his PhD as part of the NWO-Spinoza funded grant, affiliated to the ERC project NEXUS1492, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden University.

Sony is doing research on landscape archaeology, Amerindian and colonial period, and longue-durée landscape change. Sony uses to teach archaeology at the Université d’Etat d’Haiti. He collaborates with Bureau National d’Ethnologie of Haiti and co-editor of the Bulletin du Bureau National d’Ethnologie, 2019.