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

References

1. ^ "Michel-Rolph Trouillot". University of Chicago. http://anthropology.uchicago.edu/faculty/faculty_trouillot.shtml. Retrieved 2007-12-29. 
2. ^ "Haiti: State against Nation, cover copy". Monthly Review Press. http://www.monthlyreview.org/books/haiti.php. Retrieved 2010-01-28. 

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