Education:

• PhD University of Michigan, 1998
• BA Princeton University, 1992

Research Interests:

Having just completed my book Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France (forthcoming with University of California Press in 2010), and a reader co-authored with Julius Scott entitled Origins of the Black Atlantic, I am now focusing my research on my book on the history of the banjo (under contract with Harvard University Press), for which I received a National Humanities Center Fellowship and a Guggenhiem Fellowship this year. I am also continuing work on a collaborative general history of the Caribbean (under contract with UNC Press).

Director, Center for French and Francophone Studies

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Laurent Dubois. Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France.  University of California Press, Forthcoming Spring 2010.
2. With John Garrigus. Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A Brief History With Documents.  Bedford Press, 2006. [newcatalog.aspx]
3.  Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution.  The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. [html]
4.  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]
5. 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.
6. 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]
7. "Capturing Louverture." Small Axe 23 (June, 2007): 177-185.
8. "Histoires d’esclavage en France et aux Etats-Unis." Esprit  (February, 2007). [details.php]
9. With Michel Giraud, Marc-Olivier Padis, and Patrick Weil. "“Une histoire à transmettre,” interview with Lilian Thuram,." Esprit  (February, 2007): 117-123. [details.php]
10. With Erol Josué. "Le Vodou, Miroir de l’histoire: Dialogue." Tabou: Revue du Musée d’Ethnologie de Genève 5 (2007): 325-340. [edition.php]
11. "An Enslaved Enlightenment: Re-Thinking the Intellectual History of the French Atlantic." Social History 31:1 (February, 2006): 1-14.
12. "’Citoyens et Amis!’ Esclavage, citoyenneté et République dans les Antilles françaises à l’époque révolutionnaire." Annales 58:2 (March-April 2003): 281-304. [htm]