Patrick Bellegarde-Smith teaches in the Africology Dept of UW-Milwaukee with special expertise in Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil and Haiti, where he grew up and where he was initiated as a voodoo (or vodou) houngan (priest). Patrick has colaborated on and written a number of books including: Haiti: The Breached Citadel Fragments of Bone: Neo-African Religions in a New World Haitian Vodou: Spirit, Myth, and Reality - with Claudine Michel