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.

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]

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]
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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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