| Laurent Dubois, Professor of Romance Studies and History and African & African American Studies
![Laurent Dubois](https://fds.duke.edu/photos/fac/u6696.jpg) I am a specialist on the history and culture of the Atlantic world, with a focus on the Caribbean and particularly Haiti. I am the faculty director of the Forum for Scholars and Publics at Duke University, and write for magazines including the New Republic, Sports Illustrated, and the New Yorker. I recently completed a book entitled The Banjo: America's African instrument, which is forthcoming with Harvard University Press in the Spring of 2016. I have received a Mellon New Directions Fellowship, a National Humanities Fellowship, and a Guggenheim Fellowship to support this work. My most recent book Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (Metropolitan Books, 2012) tells the history of the country from it's founding revolution to the present day. In 2010 I published Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France, and continue to write about soccer at my blog Soccer Politics. In 2004 I published Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (Harvard) as well as A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 (Published by UNC Press for the Omohundro Institute), which won four book prizes including the Frederick Douglass Prize. I have also co-edited a collection of documents on the Haitian Revolution with John Garrigus, a reader entitled Origins of the Black Atlantic with Julius Scott and, with Thomas Bender and Richard Rabinowitz, the catalogue for the exhibit Revolution!: The Atlantic World Reborn, for which I was co-chair of the scholar's committee. I am also co-editing the "Haiti Reader" for Duke University Press. I advise graduate students in both History and Romance Studies, working on a range of topics in Caribbean and French colonial and post-colonial studies.
- Contact Info:
- Education:
Ph.D. | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | 1998 |
B.A. | Princeton University | 1992 |
- Specialties:
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Comparative Colonial Studies
French Caribbean Studies Global Transnational History Medieval and Early Modern History Modern and Contemporary Race and Ethnicity Decolonial and Post-colonial Studies Latin America and the Caribbean Globalization, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity Global and Comparative Historicism The Enlightenment in a Global Perspective
- Research Interests:
My book Haiti: The Aftershocks of History, which tells the history of the country from it's founding revolution to the present day, was published in January of 2012. In 2010 I published Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France, and continue to write about soccer at my blog Soccer Politics. I have also recently co-edited, with Julius Scott, a reader entitled Origins of the Black Atlantic and, with Thomas Bender and Richard Rabinowitz, the catalogue for the exhibit Revolution!: The Atlantic World Reborn, for which I was co-chair of the scholar's committee. I am also co-editing the "Haiti Reader" for Duke University Press. I am now focusing my research on my book on the history of the banjo (under contract with Harvard University Press), for which I have received a National Humanities Center Fellowship and a Guggenhiem Fellowship. For the past three years, I have held a Mellon New Directions Fellowship which has allowed me to study and research musicology and ethnomusicology. I am the co-director of the Haiti Laboratory at the Franklin Humanities Institute, where I work on collaborative projects in a number of areas including the history of Vodou and the question of land, environment and agriculture. I advice graduate students in both History and Romance Studies, working on a range of topics in Caribbean and French colonial and post-colonial studies.
- Keywords:
- African diaspora • Caribbean Region • History
- Curriculum Vitae
- Current Ph.D. Students
(Former Students)
- Michael Becker
- Claire A. Payton
- Eliza Dandridge
- Joaquin Bueno
- Reginald Patterson
- Postdocs Mentored
- Representative Publications
(More Publications)
- Dubois, L, Haiti: The Aftershocks of History
(2012), Metropolitan Books [9316] [abs]
- Dubois, L, Soccer empire: The World cup and the future of France
(June, 2010), University of California Press, ISBN 9780520259287 [abs]
- Founding Editor, Soccer Politics Blog
(to Present) [wcwp]
- Dubois, L, Thinking with Haiti, Ayiti Kraze/Haiti in Fragments,
Social Text: Periscope
(January, 2010) [available here]
- Les Vengeurs du Nouveau Monde: Histoire de la Révolution haïtienne
(2006), Editions Les Perseides [index.php]
- Dubois, L, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution
(2004), The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press [html]
- Dubois, L, A colony of citizens: Revolution and slave emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804
(January, 2012),
pp. 1-452, Published for the Omohundro Institute by the University of North Carolina Press, ISBN 0807828742 [html] [abs]
- Dubois, L, Les esclaves de la République: l'histoire oubliée de la première émancipation, 1789-1794
(1998), Calmann-Lévy [abs]
- Bender, T; Rabinowitz, R; Dubois, L, Revolution! The Atlantic World Reborn
(2011), Giles Ltd [available here]
- Dubois, L; Scott, JS, Origins of the Black Atlantic
(2009), Routledge [product_detail.asp]
- Haiti's Traces,
Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, vol. 39
(November, 2012),
pp. 177-187
- Dubois, LM, Eloge Pour Michel-Rolph Trouillot,
Transition, vol. 109
(Fall, 2012),
pp. 21-32
- Dubois, LM, Dessalines Toro d'Haiti,
William and Mary Quarterly, vol. 69 no. 3
(July, 2012),
pp. 541-548, ISSN 0043-5597 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
- Dubois, L, An atlantic revolution,
French Historical Studies, vol. 32 no. 4
(Fall, 2009),
pp. 655-661, Duke University Press, ISSN 0016-1071 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
- Dubois, LM, Reading the Black Jacobins, Seven Decades Later,
Nacla Report on the Americas, vol. 42 no. 2
(2009),
pp. 38-43 [Reading-Black-Jacobins-7-Decades-Later]
- Dubois, LM, Republic At Sea: On the Margins of the New Europe,
Transition, vol. 79
(June, 1999),
pp. 64-79
- Dubois, LM; Camier, B, 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
- Dubois, LM, Capturing Louverture,
Small Axe, vol. 23
(June, 2007),
pp. 177-185
- Dubois, LM, The Haitian Revolution and the Sale of Louisiana,
The Southern Quarterly: a Journal of Arts in the South, vol. 44 no. 3
(Spring, 2007),
pp. 18-41
- Dubois, LM, Histoires d’esclavage en France et aux Etats-Unis,
Esprit
(February, 2007),
pp. 71-80 [details.php]
- Dubois, LM; Josué, E, Le Vodou, Miroir de l’histoire: Dialogue,
Tabou: Revue Du Musée D’Ethnologie De Genève, vol. 5
(2007),
pp. 325-340 [edition.php]
- Dubois, L, An enslaved Enlightenment: Rethinking the intellectual history of the French Atlantic,
Social History, vol. 31 no. 1
(February, 2006),
pp. 1-14, Informa UK Limited [doi]
- Dubois, LM, ’Citoyens et Amis!’ Esclavage, citoyenneté et République dans les Antilles françaises à l’époque révolutionnaire, vol. 58 no. 2
(March, 2003),
pp. 281-304 [htm]
- Dubois, L, La république métissée: Citizenship, colonialism, and the borders of French history,
Cultural Studies, vol. 14 no. 1
(Winter, 2000),
pp. 15-34, Informa UK Limited [doi] [abs]
- Dubois, LM, Republican Racism and Anti-Racism: A Caribbean Genealogy,
French Politics, Culture and Society, vol. 18 no. 3
(Fall, 2000),
pp. 5-17
- Dubois, LM, ‘The Price of Liberty’: Victor Hugues and the Administration of Freedom in Guadeloupe, 1794-1802,
William and Mary Quarterly, vol. Quarterly 3rd series, LVI no. 2
(April, 1999),
pp. 363-392
- Dubois, LM, A Spoonful of Blood: Blaming Haitians for AIDS,
Science as Culture, vol. 6 no. 26
(Winter, 1997),
pp. 7-43
- Casimir, J; Dubois, LM, Reckoning in Haiti,
in Haiti Rising: Haitian History, Culture, and the Earthquake of 2010, edited by Munro, M
(2010), University of West Indies Press
- Dubois, L, The French Atlantic,
in Atlantic History: A Critical Appraisal, edited by Green, JP; Morgan, PD
(2009),
pp. 137-162, Oxford University Press [available here]
- Dubois, L, The Hijab on the Pitch,
The Feminist Wire
(August, 2012) [available here]
- Wolff, A, French World Cup Hero Thuram Working to Battle Racism in Soccer and Society,
Sports Illustrated
(June, 2012) [html]
- Bell, MS, 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]
- 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]
- Dubois, L, Egalite for All: Human Rights and the Haitian Revolution
(2008) (I was the head historical consultant for
Koval Films on a documentary on the Haitian
Revolution, aired on PBS in January 2009..) [html]
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