Laurent M. Dubois, Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History

Contact Info:

Office Location:	315 Carr Building
Office Phone:	(919) 660-3112 (Romance Studies); (919) 681-7019 (History)
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://duboisl2.wordpress.com/

Office Hours:

Tuesdays, 12:30-2:30 in 213 Languages Building

Education:

PhD	University of Michigan	1998
BA	Princeton University	1992

Specialties:

Comparative Colonial Studies
Global Transnational History
Medieval and Early Modern History
Race and Ethnicity

Research Interests: Anthropology, History and Literature of the French Caribbean and the Atlantic World

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).

Areas of Interest:

Caribbean
French Atlantic
Contemporary France
Afro-Atlantic Music and Religion

Keywords:

French Caribbean • Haiti • Contemporary France • French Atlantic • Age of Revolution

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students  

• Joaquin Bueno  
• Deanna Rogers  
• Julia K. Gaffield  
• Reginald Patterson  
• Lesley Curtis  
• Margaret Mahon  

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France (2010), University of California Press
2. With John Garrigus, Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A Brief History With Documents (2006), Bedford Press [newcatalog.aspx]
3. Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (2004), The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press [html]
4. A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 (2004), Published for the Omohundro Institute by the University of North Carolina Press [html]
5. With Bernard Camier, Voltaire, Zaïre, Dessalines: Le Théâtre des Lumières dans L’Atlantique français, Revue d'histoire moderne et contemporaine, vol. 54 no. 4 (December, 2007), pp. 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, vol. 7 no. 4 (July, 2007) [available here]
7. Capturing Louverture, Small Axe, vol. 23 (June, 2007), pp. 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), pp. 117-123 [details.php]
10. With Erol Josué, Le Vodou, Miroir de l’histoire: Dialogue, Tabou: Revue du Musée d’Ethnologie de Genève, vol. 5 (2007), pp. 325-340 [edition.php]
11. An Enslaved Enlightenment: Re-Thinking the Intellectual History of the French Atlantic, Social History, vol. 31 no. 1 (February, 2006), pp. 1-14
12. ’Citoyens et Amis!’ Esclavage, citoyenneté et République dans les Antilles françaises à l’époque révolutionnaire, Annales, vol. 58 no. 2 (March-April 2003), pp. 281-304 [htm]