Marlene Daut, Professor of French and of Black Studies, is among four Yale scholars and artists who received 2026 fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Daut and Glover were awarded the prize for their “comprehensive, erudite, and sprawling” co-edited book, A History of Haitian Literature.

The award recognizes her continued contributions to Haitian studies and efforts to center Haitian voices in historical scholarship.

Daut was honored for her book, The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christophe.

Daut, Professor of French and Black Studies, is one of three finalists for this year's prestigious history prize.

Kaplan, Sterling Professor of French, was recognized for her "eminent contribution to the maintenance and illustration of the French language."

In a new book, Yale’s Marlene Daut follows the remarkable trajectory of Christophe’s life and Haiti’s transition from enslaved colony to free Black nation.

Daut's widely celebrated book Awakening the Ashes received an honorable mention for the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for French and Francophone Studies.

Alice Kaplan, Sterling Professor of French, received a special mention for her 2024 book Baya ou le grand vernissage.

Marlene L. Daut has been named a co-winner of the twenty-sixth annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize by Yale University’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.