add contact to address book

Associate Professor

• Affiliation(s)

  • Latin American and Caribbean Studies
    Department of Afroamerican and African Studies

• Fields of Study

  • Caribbean
  • Comparative race and slavery
  • Comparative authoritarianism
  • U.S-Latin relations

• About

  Selected Publications:

  Foundations of Despotism: Peasants, the Trujillo Regime, and Modernity in Dominican History (Stanford:  Stanford University Press, 2003)

  “Par-delà les plantations. Question raciale et identités collectives à Santo Domingo,” Genèses (Paris) 66 (March 2007): 51-68

  "A World Destroyed, A Nation Imposed:  The 1937 Haitian Massacre in the Dominican Republic.”  Hispanic American Historical Review 82, no. 3 (Aug. 2002): 589-635 

• Education

  • Ph.D Chicago, 1997