Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Caribbean. History on the Edges: Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s Caribbean guided visitors through a life in Caribbean letters from Trouillot’s earliest writings through his enduring scholarly contributions and legacy at the University of Chicago. Curated by Ryan Cecil Jobson, Department of Anthropology, Kaneesha Cherelle Parsard, Department of English, and Rachel Chery, Department of Music, the exhibition was hosted by Special Collections at The Joseph Regenstein Library.

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“Anthropologists study the complex diversity of lived human worlds as they play out on the ground, as they manifest in the lived experiences of those who make up those worlds; to do so, we take up perspectives that are immanent to those worlds, endeavoring to understand the experiences and behaviors of others from within. In so doing, we allow those worlds to transform us.”

Constantine V. Nakassis, Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology, delivered remarks in celebration of the Division of the Social Sciences’ 2026 Spring Quarter Diploma and Hooding Ceremony.

Read the full address here . . . and revisit the ceremony in images here!