Michel-Rolph Trouillot

(PhD, Johns Hopkins 1985) Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College, works on the relation between historicity and power; the epistemology of the human sciences; global flows; and the historical evolution of Caribbean populations, their economic and cultural emergence from the slavery situation, their uneven integration into the world economy, and their relation to capital and to the state. (On leave 2004-05)
email: rolph@uchicago.edu

Publications:

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.

1992 The Caribbean Region: An Open Frontier in Anthropological Theory. Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 21, 19-42.

1993 Coffee Planters and Coffee Slaves: From Saint Domingue to Dominica. In I. Berlin & P. Morgan, eds. Cultivation and Culture: The Shaping of Slave Life in the Americas. U of Virginia Press, 124-137.

1995 Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History. Beacon Press

1997 Silencing the Past: Layers of Meaning in the Haitian Revolution. In G. Sider & G. Smith, eds., Between History and Histories: The Making of Silences and Commemorations. Univ. of Toronto Press, 31-61.

1998 Culture on the Edges: Creolization in the Plantation Context. Plantation Society in the Americas. 5(1):8-28.

2000 Abortive Rituals. Historical Apologies in the Global Era. Interventions 2(2): 171-186. Special Issue. Righting Wrongs, Rewriting History, H. Bhabha & R.S. Rajan, eds.

2001 The Anthropology of the State: Close Encounters of a Deceptive Kind. Forum on Theory in Anthropology. Current Anthropology 42(1): 125-38.

2001 Bodies and Souls: Madison Smartt Bell's All Souls Rising and the Haitian Revolution. In M. Carnes, ed., Novel History: Historians and Novelists Confront America 's Past (And Each Other). New York: Simon & Schuster, 184-97.

2002 Alter-Native Modernities: Caribbean Lessons for the Savage Slot. In B. Knauft, ed., Critically Modern. Indiana University Press.

2003 Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World. New York: Palgrave/St. Martin's/ Macmillan. Forthcoming.