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Michel DeGraff is a noted Haitian Creolist who has served on the board of the Journal of Haitian Studies.

He completed his doctoral dissertation in 1992 on 'Creole Grammar and the Acquisition of Syntax' at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a tenured professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His field of scholarship is Creole language, also known as Lang Kreyòl Linguistics. He is known for his advocacy towards the recognition of Haitian Creole as a full-fledged language. In the fall of 2012, he received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to introduce online Creole language materials in the teaching of STEM in Haiti.

Education
Dr. DeGraff holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to his PhD, he studied computer science at City College of New York. He arrived at City College from Haiti in 1982. He developed an interest in linguistics during an internship at Bell Labs in New Jersey in 1985.