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Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
Michigan University
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
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, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
, endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
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Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
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, title = Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History
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Laurent Dubois is the Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History and founder of the Forum for Scholars & Publics at
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
. His studies have focused on
Haiti
Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...
.
Education
Dubois was an undergraduate at
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...
, graduating in 1992, then earned his Ph.D. from
University of Michigan
, mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth"
, former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821)
, budget = $10.3 billion (2021)
, endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...
at Ann Arbor in 1998.
Career
Dubois's main areas of research deal with the history of Haiti and the politics of soccer. He has received a
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
and a
National Endowment for the Humanities
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is an independent federal agency of the U.S. government, established by thNational Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965(), dedicated to supporting research, education, preserv ...
Fellowship. His book ''A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804'' won the 2005
Frederick Douglass Prize The Frederick Douglass Book Prize is awarded annually by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History and the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University
Yale University is a Private unive ...
.
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
Holt or holte may refer to:
Natural world
*Holt (den), an otter den
* Holt, an area of woodland
Places Australia
* Holt, Australian Capital Territory
* Division of Holt, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives in Vic ...
, 2012)
*''The Banjo: America’s African Instrument'' (
Harvard University Press
Harvard University Press (HUP) is a publishing house established on January 13, 1913, as a division of Harvard University, and focused on academic publishing. It is a member of the Association of American University Presses. After the retirem ...
, 2016)
References
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Living people
Duke University faculty
Princeton University alumni
Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)