She worked as a professor of anthropology at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, before joining the Feminist Studies department at UC Santa Cruz in fall 2020.
An interdisciplinary methodologist, her research interests culminate at the intersections of geopolitics, historical representations and the dailiness of Black diasporic conditions.
"Because When God Is Too Busy: Haiti, Me, & The World" is a one-woman show written and performed by Ulysse that combines history, theory, and personal narrative in spoken word with Vodou chants to reflect on childhood memories, social justice, spirituality, and the incessant dehumanization of Haitians.
Her first monograph, based on her dissertation research, Downtown Ladies: Informal Commercial Importing, A Haitian Anthropologist and Self-Making in Jamaica (Chicago, 2007), received honorable mention in the Caribbean Studies Association Book Prize.
Her second book, Why Haiti Needs New Narratives: A Post Quake Chronicle (Wesleyan, 2015) was published as a tri-lingual edition in English, Kreyòl and French.