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 Professor of HistoryTeaching (Spring 2024):
- History 302.01, Applied historical research
Synopsis
- Smith wrhs a101, F 01:40 PM-04:10 PM
- History 565s.01, Global critical race theory
Synopsis
- Gray 319, M 06:30 PM-09:00 PM
Education:
- Ph.D. Yale University 1985
- MA University of Pittsburgh 1978
- BA (Magna cum laude) Amherst College 1975
- Specialties:
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Gender
Labor and Working Class History
Legal History
Politics, Public Life and Governance
Race and Ethnicity
Latin America and the Caribbean
Global and Comparative
- 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)
- French, JD. "Epilogue: Authoritarianism and the Specter of Democracy." International Review of Social History 68:1 (April,
2023): 173-175. [doi]
- French, JD. "Common Men, Exceptional Politicians: What Do We Gain from an Embodied Social Biographical Approach to Leftist Leaders Like Germany's August Bebel and Brazil's Luis Inácio Lula da Silva?." International Review of Social History 68:1 (April,
2023): 111-121. [doi] [abs]
- French, JD. "Charisma's Birth from the Bottom Up: Lula, ABC's Metalworkers' Strikes and the Social History of Brazilian Politics." Journal of Latin American Studies 54:4 (November,
2022): 705-729. [doi] [abs]
- French, JD. "Jeffrey L. Gould. Solidarity under Siege: The Salvadoran Labor Movement, 1970–1990.." The American Historical Review 126:4 (February,
2022): 1670-1671. [doi]
- French, JD. "From Dictatorship to the Brazilian New Republic in Crisis: Understanding Lula's Political Leadership." Latin American Politics and Society 64:1 (February,
2022): 168-173. [doi]
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