Education:
- PhD University of Michigan, 1998
- BA Princeton University, 1992
Research Interests:
I am currently working on several projects: The Banjo: A Cultural History (under contract with Harvard University Press), a general history of the Caribbean (Under contract with University of North Carolina Press), and a series of essays about soccer and race in France, entitled "The Empire of French Soccer." Representative Publications (More Publications)
- "Egalite for All: Human Rights and the Haitian Revolution." I am working as the head consultant with
Koval Films on a documentary on the Haitian
Revolution, which will be aired on PBS in 2008.
Here is the link to a promotional video for
the film.
(2008). [html]
- With Michel Giraud. "La Mémoire de l’esclavage en Guadeloupe et en Martinique: Les faits, les discours, et les enjeux." Official Report Submitted to French Ministère d’Outre-Mer (January, 2008).
- With Bernard Camier. "Voltaire, Zaïre, Dessalines: Le Théâtre des Lumières dans L’Atlantique français." Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine 54:4 (December, 2007): 39-69.
- "Capturing Louverture." Small Axe 23 (June, 2007): 177-185.
- "Histoires d’esclavage en France et aux Etats-Unis." Esprit (February, 2007). [details.php]
- With Madison Smartt Bell. "The Haitian Revolution at the Crossroads: A Discussion Between Madison Smartt Bell and Laurent Dubois." Common-Place.org 7:4 (July, 2007). [available here]
- With Michel Giraud, Marc-Olivier Padis, and Patrick Weil. "“Une histoire à transmettre,” interview with Lilian Thuram,." Esprit (February, 2007): 117-123. [details.php]
- With Erol Josué. "Le Vodou, Miroir de l’histoire: Dialogue." Tabou: Revue du Musée d’Ethnologie de Genève 5 (2007): 325-340. [edition.php]
- "An Enslaved Enlightenment: Re-Thinking the Intellectual History of the French Atlantic." Social History 31:1 (February, 2006): 1-14.
- With John Garrigus. Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A Brief History With Documents. Bedford Press, 2006. [newcatalog.aspx]
- Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. [html]
- A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804. Published for the Omohundro Institute by the University of North Carolina Press, 2004. [html]
- "’Citoyens et Amis!’ Esclavage, citoyenneté et République dans les Antilles françaises à l’époque révolutionnaire." Annales 58:2 (March-April 2003): 281-304.
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