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Richard Turits
Associate Professor
Ph.D. University of Chicago, 1997
Other U of M Affiliation:
Director, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program; Center for Afroamerican and African Studies (CAAS)
Contact Information:
University of Michigan
2518 Haven Hall
Phone:
734-647-4873
Second Office:
3630 SSWB (LACS)
Second Phone:
734-763-0553
E-mail:
rturits@umich.edu
Office Hours:
On leave 2009-2010
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Field(s) of Study:
Hispanic Caribbean and Haiti; race, slavery, violence, nondemocratic regimes, peasantries, and U.S. interventions
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Biography:
Richard Turits is a historian of the Caribbean and Latin America, particularly the Hispanic Caribbean and Haiti. A graduate of Brown University, he received an M.A. from Yale University and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago (1997). He was an assistant professor at Princeton University from 1997 to 2003, when he joined the University of Michigan faculty as Associate Professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies.
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Selected Publications:
Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003)
“A World Destroyed, A Nation Imposed: The 1937 Haitian Massacre in the Dominican Republic,” Hispanic American Historical Review (Aug. 2002)
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Current Projects:
Current projects include a general history of the Caribbean with Laurent Dubois to be published by the University of North Carolina Press and a book on the history of slavery, freedom, and racial meanings in colonial Santo Domingo and into the national period within a broad Atlantic perspective, tentatively entitled: "New World of Color: Slavery, Freedom, and the Making of Race in Santo Domingo and the Atlantic World."
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