Name Michel-Rolph Trouillot | ||
Died July 5, 2012, Chicago, Illinois, United States Education Johns Hopkins University (1978–1985) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books Silencing the past, Global Transformations: Anthropol, Haiti - state against nation, Peasants and capital | ||
Michel rolph trouillot silencing the past
Michel-Rolph Trouillot (November 26, 1949 – July 5, 2012; PhD, Johns Hopkins 1985) was a Haitian academic and anthropologist. He was Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.
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Michel rolph trouillot silencing the past
Biography
Rolph (as he was known conversationally) was the son of Ernest Trouillot and Anne-Marie Morisset, both black intellectuals from Port-au-Prince. His father was a lawyer and his uncle, Hénock Trouillot was a professor who worked in the National Archives of Haiti. Hénock was an influential noiriste historian. He attended the Petit Séminaire Collège Saint-Martial, moving on to the École Normale Supérieure. However, faced with repression from the Duvalier regime in 1968, Trouillot joined a mass exodus of students who found refuge in New York City.
In 2011 Trouillot was awarded the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award, which is given annually by the Caribbean Philosophical Association in recognition of work of special interest to Caribbean thought.
In 1977 his first book Ti dife boule sou Istwa Ayiti on the origins of the Haitian slave revolution was published. It has been described as "the first book-length monograph written in Haitian Creole." In July 2012, Université Caraïbe Press reprinted this masterful work. Trouillot's lifetime of work presented a vision for anthropology and the social sciences, informed by historical depth and empirical examination of Caribbean societies.
Trouillot died on July 5, 2012.