Laurent Dubois

Laurent Dubois is the Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History and founder of the Forum for Scholars & Publics at Duke University. His studies have focused on Haiti.

Dubois was an undergraduate at Princeton University, graduating in 1992, then earned his Ph.D. from University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1998.

Dubois's main areas of research deal with the history of Haiti and the politics of soccer. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. His book A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 won the 2005 Frederick Douglass Prize.