Born in Port-au-Prince, Jacques-Raphaël Georges owes his primary and secondary education to the state of Haiti. Firstly, he was a pupil at L'Ecole Nationale des Casernes Dessalines, a school opened to dependents of members of the Haitian armed forces. Georges began his teaching career, at Centre d?etudes d?Haiti, as a Greek and Latin instructor, while studying at the Faculty of Ethnology, in Port-au-Prince, before emigrating into the United States. He served in the US Navy. Honorably discharged, he obtained a B.A. in French Studies, a Master in French Pedagogy and a Certificate in African and African-American Studies. Georges later crowned his accomplishments with a Ph.D. in French Studies in 1999, at the University of Connecticut. Presently he teaches French & francophone cultures at the University of New Hampshire, at Manchester. A defender of black cultures, Dr. Georges travelled extensively throughout Africa, and Latin America, given many conferences on the topic.