Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Michel-Rolph Trouillot (PhD, Johns Hopkins 1985) is an academic and anthropologist currently working as Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.[1]

His 1977 book on the origins of the Haitian slave revolution has been described as "the first book-length monograph written in Haitian creole."[2]

The Haitian historian and novelist Henock Trouillot was his uncle.

Selected works

  • 1977 Ti difé boulé sou Istoua Ayiti. New York: Koléksion Lakansièl.
  • 1988 Peasants and Capital: Dominica in the World Economy. Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • 1990 Haiti: State against Nation. The Origins and Legacy of Duvalierism. Monthly Review Press.
  • 1995 Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Beacon Press.
  • 2003 Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World. Palgrave

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