Caribbean and Atlantic World: Faculty
Among the University of Chicago faculty with research and teaching interests in this area are the following:
LEORA AUSLANDER (Ph.D. Brown University, 1988). Associate Professor of Modern European History (773/702-7940). Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European Social History, with a focus on France and Germany; Gender History and Theory Aesthetics and Politics; Everyday Life; Metropolitan and Colonial Nationalism; Comparative History.
RALPH A. AUSTEN (Ph.D. Harvard University, 1966). Professor of African History (773/702-8344). African Economic History; Comparative Slavery and Slave Trade; Colonialism and Imperialism; African Literature; Witchcraft.
DAIN BORGES, (Ph.D. Stanford 1986). Associate Professor of Latin American History (773/834-0284). Modern Brazilian history including social science, literature, popular religion and state-formation.
EDWARD COOK (Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1972). Associate Professor of American History (773/702-8384). Colonial and Revolutionary America; Social History; Eighteenth-Century Britain.
THOMAS C. HOLT (Ph.D. Yale University, 1973). James Westfall Thompson Distinguished Service Professor of American History (773/702-8389). African American, Southern, and British Caribbean History.
EMILIO KOURÍ, (Ph.D. Harvard 1996). Associate Professor of Latin American History (773/834-4769). Rural Mexico since 1750, including social relations and movements; agrarian, agricultural, business and legal history, and the "Indian question"; the Spanish Caribbean; U.S. Latino history.
STEPHAN PALMIÉ, Department of Anthropology
AGNES LUGO-ORTIZ (Ph.D. Princeton University, 1990). Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (773/834-1964).
JULIE SAVILLE (Ph.D. Yale University, 1986). Associate Professor of American History (773/702-2695). African-American and Caribbean History; Comparative Slavery and Emancipations.
MICHEL-ROLPH TROUILLOT, Department of Anthropology