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 Associate ProfessorEducation:
- PhD Yale University 1985
- MA University of Pittsburgh 1978
- BA (Magna cum laude) Amherst College 1975
- Specialties:
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Latin America
Caribbean, Brazil
19th and 20th Centuries
Gender
Politics
African diaspora
Transnational
Women
- Research Interests:
John D. French is a Professor of History at Duke University whose specialties include labor and politics in Brazil and the rise of alt-global politics. His most recent books include Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture (2004) and the The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers (1997). “Another World Is Possible: The Rise of the Brazilian Workers’ Party and the Prospects for Lula’s Government,” Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas (2005) draws from a current book manuscript entitled Lula’s Politics of Cunning: From Trade Unionism to the Presidency in Brazil.
- Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications (More Publications)
- J.D. French, "Review of the documentary “Lula’s Brazil: The Management of Hope” Directed by Gonzalo Arijón (2005).". Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 5:1 (Spring, Spring, 2008): 134-36. [PDF]
- The Origin of Brazil's Lula: Building Movements in a World in Flux, Sao Paulo, Brazil 1950-1980. 2007. [PDF]
- J. D. French and Daniel James. "The Travails of Doing Labor History: The Restless Wanderings of John Womack Jr.." Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 4:2 (2007): 95-116. [PDF]
- "Review of Angus Wright and Wendy Wolford, To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil (Oakland: Food First Books, 2003)". Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 4:1 (2007): 141-43. [PDF]
- "Wal-Mart, Retail Supremacy, and the Relevance of Political Economy: The Intermestic Challenge of Contemporary Research (Academic, Agitational, and Constructive)." Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 4:1 (2006): 33-40. [PDF]
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