Crystal Eddins
- Associate Professor
Crystal Eddins is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh and holds a Dual Major PhD in African American & African Studies and Sociology from Michigan State University. Her areas of research are the African Diaspora, Historical Sociology, Social Movements & Revolutions, Race & Ethnicity, Women & Gender, and 18th-19th century Atlantic World Her book, African Diaspora Collective Action: Rituals, Runaways, and the Haitian Revolution, is an interdisciplinary case study that explores the relationship between ritual life, collective consciousness, and marronnage before the Haitian Revolution. Eddins has published other works in the Journal of Haitian Studies, Gender & History, the Journal of World-Systems Research, and Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change.
