Laurent Dubois
{{short description|French historian}}
{{About|21st-century academic|17th-century minister|Laurent du Bois}}
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Laurent Dubois is the John L. Nau III Bicentennial Professor in the History & Principles of Democracy. A specialist on the history and culture of the Atlantic world who studies the Caribbean (particularly Haiti), North America, and France, Dubois joined the University of Virginia in January 2021, and will also serve as the Democracy Initiative’s Director for Academic Affairs. In this role, Dubois will spearhead the Democracy Initiative’s research and pedagogical missions and will serve as the director and lead research convener of the John L. Nau III History and Principles of Democracy Lab—the permanent core lab of the Initiative which will operate as the connecting hub for the entire project.{{cite web|title=People {{!}} Laurent Dubois {{!}} Department of History at the University of Virginia|url=https://democracyinitiative.virginia.edu/leadership#dubois/|website=democracyinitiative.edu|publisher= University of Virginia=31 July 2023|language=en}} His studies have focused on Haiti.
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.{{cite web|title=Laurent Dubois {{!}} Duke University History Department Department|url=https://history.duke.edu/people/laurent-dubois|website=history.duke.edu|publisher=Duke University|accessdate=30 June 2017|language=en}}
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.{{Cite web|url=http://glc.yale.edu/frederick-douglass-book-prize/past-winners|title=Past Winners {{!}} The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition|website=glc.yale.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-06-30}}
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){{cite news|last1=Hochschild|first1=Adam|title=Haiti - The Aftershocks of History - By Laurent Dubois - Book Review|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/books/review/haiti-the-aftershocks-of-history-by-laurent-dubois-book-review.html|accessdate=30 June 2017|work=The New York Times|date=29 December 2011}}{{cite news|title=Nonfiction Book Review: Haiti: The Aftershocks of History by Laurent Dubois|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8050-9335-3|accessdate=30 June 2017|work=Publishers Weekly|date=October 24, 2011|language=en}}{{cite journal|last1=Pressley-Sanon|first1=Toni|title=Haiti: The Aftershocks of History by Laurent Dubois (review)|journal=Journal of Haitian Studies|date=27 February 2014|volume=19|issue=1|pages=307–311|doi=10.1353/jhs.2013.0021|s2cid=141956012 |issn=2333-7311}}
- The Banjo: America’s African Instrument (Harvard University Press, 2016){{cite journal|last1=Hardwig|first1=Bill|title=The Banjo: America's African Instrument|journal=Journal of American History|date=1 March 2017|volume=103|issue=4|pages=1019–1020|doi=10.1093/jahist/jaw515|url=https://academic.oup.com/jah/article-abstract/103/4/1019/3052490/The-Banjo-America-s-African-Instrument?redirectedFrom=fulltext|accessdate=30 June 2017|issn=0021-8723}}{{cite news|title=Nonfiction Book Review: The Banjo: America's African Instrument by Laurent Dubois|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-674-04784-6|accessdate=30 June 2017|work=Publishers Weekly|date=July 4, 2016|language=en}}{{cite journal|last1=Gura|first1=Philip F.|title=The Glory-Beaming Banjo!|journal=Reviews in American History|date=20 September 2016|volume=44|issue=3|pages=505–510|doi=10.1353/rah.2016.0068|s2cid=151735235 |issn=1080-6628}}{{cite journal|last1=Karush|first1=Matthew B.|title=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=Journal of Social History|pages=shw088|date=10 September 2016|doi=10.1093/jsh/shw088}}
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