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Full Name: Laurent Dubois
Website: http://duboisl2.wordpress.com/
Details: 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.

Posts by ld48@duke.edu:

20 Mar 2013 The Blood of the Impure
05 Feb 2013 A Moth for Mali
02 Dec 2012 Palestine on the Pitch
03 Aug 2012 The Hijab on the Pitch
26 Jun 2012 Mario Balotelli and the New Europe
08 Jun 2012 What Would Thuram Do?
30 May 2012 Orange Smoke
22 May 2012 Drogbacité
13 Feb 2012 Football as Humanity: Zambia 2012
02 Feb 2012 The Ultras, the Military, and the Revolution

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Football is Coming Home
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