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86 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine EDUCATION A former professor at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Dr. Bryant C. Freeman is best known as the founder and director of the University of Kansas Institute of Haitian Studies. A student at France’s prestigious École Normale Supérieure and a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Virginia, Dr. Freeman received a Master of Arts and PhD in French language and literature from Yale University while both a Woodrow Wilson and Yale University Fellow. After teaching at Yale and the University of Virginia from 1955 to 1971, he was appointed professor of French at the University of Kansas from 1971 to 2007, serving as chair of French and Italian from 1971 to 1976. Dr. Freeman screened Haitian refugees at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo, Cuba, and served repeatedly as an instructor in Haiti for the United Nations/OAS observers, as well as for U.S. Peace Corps volunteers. With the protocol rank of major general, he worked with U.S. and UN peace-keeping forces in Haiti. A widely published scholar, Dr. Freeman’s six-volume “Haitian-English, English-Haitian Dictionary” and his three- volume “Medicine in Haiti” have proven especially useful. For publication in the Haitian language, he collected and edited two volumes of Haitian folktales, as well as an 18-volume edition of the complete works of Haiti’s great novelist Carrié Paultre. The U.S. State Department entrusted him to provide an official English translation of President Aristide’s resignation message. Among Dr. Freeman’s numerous accolades include a Lifetime Achievement Award for Service to the Haitian People, a U.S. Department of Justice Special Service Award, and Kansas Humanities Council and Kansas French Educator of the Year Awards. BRYANT C. FREEMAN, PHD HAITI SPECIALIST University of Kansas Lawrence, KS