Laurent Dubois

Laurent Dubois is the Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History[1] and founder of the Forum for Scholars & Publics at Duke University. His studies have focused on Haiti.

This article is about 21st-century academic. For 17th-century minister, see Laurent du Bois.
Laurent Dubois
Dubois speaks in 2010
Alma materPrinceton University
Michigan University
EmployerDuke University
TitleMarcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History

Education

Dubois was an undergraduate at Princeton University, graduating in 1992, then earned his Ph.D. from University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1998.[2]

Career

Dubois's main areas of research deal with the history of Haiti and the politics of soccer. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. His book A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 won the 2005 Frederick Douglass Prize.[3]

Bibliography
  • Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (2004)
  • A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 (2004)
  • An Enslaved Enlightenment: rethinking the Intellectual History of the French Atlantic (2006)
  • Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France (2010)
  • Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (Holt, 2012)[4][5][6]
  • The Banjo: America’s African Instrument (Harvard University Press, 2016)[7][8][9][10]

References
  1. "People | Laurent Dubois | The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University". heymancenter.org. Columbia University. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  2. "Laurent Dubois | Duke University History Department Department". history.duke.edu. Duke University. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  3. "Past Winners | The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition". glc.yale.edu. Retrieved 2017-06-30.
  4. Hochschild, Adam (29 December 2011). "Haiti - The Aftershocks of History - By Laurent Dubois - Book Review". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  5. "Nonfiction Book Review: Haiti: The Aftershocks of History by Laurent Dubois". Publishers Weekly. October 24, 2011. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  6. Pressley-Sanon, Toni (27 February 2014). "Haiti: The Aftershocks of History by Laurent Dubois (review)". Journal of Haitian Studies. 19 (1): 307–311. doi:10.1353/jhs.2013.0021. ISSN 2333-7311.
  7. Hardwig, Bill (1 March 2017). "The Banjo: America's African Instrument". Journal of American History. 103 (4): 1019–1020. doi:10.1093/jahist/jaw515. ISSN 0021-8723. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  8. "Nonfiction Book Review: The Banjo: America's African Instrument by Laurent Dubois". Publishers Weekly. July 4, 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2017.
  9. Gura, Philip F. (20 September 2016). "The Glory-Beaming Banjo!". Reviews in American History. 44 (3): 505–510. doi:10.1353/rah.2016.0068. ISSN 1080-6628.
  10. Karush, Matthew B. (10 September 2016). "The Banjo: America's African Instrument . By Laurent Dubois Kīkā Kila: How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the Sound of Modern Music . By John W. Troutman". Journal of Social History: shw088. doi:10.1093/jsh/shw088.
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