Laurent Dubois
- Academic Director, Karsh Institute of Democracy, University of Virginia
- John L. Nau III Bicentennial Professor of the History & Principles of Democracy, University of Virginia
Laurent Dubois is John L. Nau III Bicentennial Professor of the History & Principles of Democracy and the academic director of the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia. From 2007 to 2020, he was professor of romance studies and history at Duke University, where he founded and directed the Forum for Scholars & Publics. He is the author of eight books, including Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution (2004), A Colony of Citizens: Revolution and Slave Emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1787-1804 (2004), Haiti: The Aftershocks of History (2012), and The Language of the Game: How to Understand Soccer (2018). His writings have appeared in The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times. He is currently writing a history of France and the Americas, under contract with Basic Books, entitled Seven Rivers & a Sea.
Events
Race, Learning, and American Democracy
Derrick P. Alridge, Laurent Dubois, Bobbie Laur, Tia Brown McNair, Jeremy C. Young
An examination of the nation’s racial learning landscape and the actions that educators can take to help all students fully explore our nation’s past and, going forward, contribute to societal choices about racial healing.
Satire as Political Changemaker
Barbara Brandon-Croft, Laurent Dubois, Jeffrey Koterba, Pedro Xavier Molina, Rayma Suprani
A panel of esteemed editorial cartoonists discusses how accessible—and often humorous—illustrations can be used to comment on culture, corruption, censorship, and democratic norms.
