Carlo
Charles

Dr. Carlo Handy Charles (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Windsor, a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan, and a Fellow at the CNRS French Collaborative Institute on Migrations in Paris. Using qualitative mixed methods, his research explores the intersection of international migration, race, sexualities, and socioeconomic inequalities among migrants and nonmigrants in the Americas, the Caribbean, and Europe. His current book project examines how men in Haiti form and sustain queer transnational relationships with Haitian immigrants in the United States, Canada, France, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic, as well as the impacts of such relationships on Haiti. Dr. Charles completed a dual PhD in Sociology and Geography under the supervision of leading migration scholars Dr. Vic Satzewich (McMaster University) and Dr. Cédric Audebert (CNRS). His award-winning doctoral research was recognized with the prestigious SSHRC-Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarship, France-Canada Research Fund, Outstanding Graduating Sociology Student Award by the Canadian Sociological Association, and the CNRS Foundation Prize for Best PhD Thesis at the Université des Antilles' Laboratoire Caribéen de Sciences Sociales. He has held visiting scholar positions in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto and at Concordia University's Digital Intimacy, Gender, and Sexuality Lab. Before joining the University of Windsor, he taught Sociology at McMaster University and French at L'Alliance Française de Toronto and L'Alliance Française de Caracas (Venezuela). In addition to his peer-reviewed publications and op-eds in news media, Dr. Charles uses creative writing to disseminate knowledge to audiences outside academia through research-based art. In 2022, he co-authored with Alice Carré the play 'Kap O Mond!', which opened in Paris at l'Échangeur Theatre and has been produced in a dozen theatres in France since. Kap O Mond! addresses contemporary Haitian migration issues in France and French humanitarianism in Haiti. In Kap O Mond!, Charles uses his sociology and geography background to show how global issues, such as colonialism, global capitalism, and the North-South divide, affect everyday decisions that ordinary citizens make in their personal and professional lives in both the Global North and South. In 2022, he drew on his public scholarship to co-develop with Dr. Mark Osmond a script for the film documentary 'Pigs to the Slaughter' in which he analyses how race, ethnicity, sexuality, socio-economic status, and online technology intersect to shape the latest crypto-currency romance scams, which have defrauded investors of hundreds of millions of dollars globally. In the fall of 2024, he launched his first manga on homosexuality in Haiti.