J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat (born 1970) is an American cultural anthropologist, and the author of Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti (University Press of Florida, 2006). He is a National Geographic Society Explorer-in-Residence, a Consultant on Civil Affairs (Officer Grade P-5, Civilian) for the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), and Distinguished Visiting Research Affiliate and Ethnologist-in-Residence (Distingué Invité des Adjoints de Recherche et Ethnologue en Résidence) with the Bureau of Ethnology at the State University of Haiti (Faculté d'Ethnologie, Université d'Etat d'Haïti). In December 2014 Kovats-Bernat was awarded a Waitt Grant from the National Geographic Society's Explorer-in-Residence Program. This grant not only provides funding for his 2015 research onto Haitian Vodou, witchcraft and the sorcery rituals surrounding zombificasyon (zombification) in the Haitian interior; the award also bestows upon him the honorific title of "National Geographic Explorer" for life. He serves as Chair of the Executive Committee of the International Society of Small Arms Scholars, and a member of the Editorial Board of Childhood, the international flagship journal of global child research published by SAGE, the fifth largest and among the most prestigious publication houses of scholarly journals worldwide.