Laurent Dubois

I am the founding editor of the Soccer Politics Blog, which I created in 2009 as part of a course on "World Cup and World Politics" taught at Duke University. The Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke, I'm the Director of the Center for French and Francophone Studies and co-director of the Haiti Laboratory of the Franklin Humanities Institute. My books include Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France and, most recently, Haiti: The Aftershocks of History.

Homepage: http://duboisl2.wordpress.com/


Posts by Laurent Dubois

Idrissou Mora Kpai

Tuesday, November 6th, 2012

Posted in Africa, Vietnam | 3 Comments

Frantz Fanon Speaks

Monday, October 29th, 2012

Posted in Frantz Fanon | 1 Comment

French President Acknowledges 1961 Massacre of Algerians in Paris

Friday, October 19th, 2012

Posted in Algeria, Decolonization | 3 Comments

Kaiama Glover Visit to Duke

Thursday, September 27th, 2012

Posted in Haiti | 1 Comment

Reading Lyonel Trouillot

Thursday, September 27th, 2012

Posted in Haiti, Lyonel Trouillot | 3 Comments

Zidane’s “Coup de Boule” in Bronze

Thursday, September 27th, 2012

Posted in Football, Zidane | 4 Comments

Debate on Anti-Islamic Cartoons in Charlie Hebdo

Friday, September 21st, 2012

Posted in Islam | 1 Comment

Maroons in the Archives

Sunday, September 16th, 2012

Posted in Haiti, Haitian Revolution, Maroons, Slavery | Comments Off

Reading Texaco

Thursday, September 13th, 2012

Posted in Martinique, Patrick Chamoiseau | 26 Comments

Reading Fatou Diome

Thursday, September 6th, 2012

Posted in Fatou Diome | 21 Comments