Michel-Rolph Trouillot

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Haitian academic and anthropologist

United States AcademicsLived 1949 to 2012 · aged 62

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Michel-Rolph Trouillot was a Haitian American academic and anthropologist. He was a Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago.

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Left-to-right: Lyonel, Évelyne, Michel-Rolph, and Jocelyne Trouillot in front of their home in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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Guggenheim Fellowship

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SiblingLyonel Trouillot

SiblingÉvelyne Trouillot

SiblingJocelyne Trouillot

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About this person

Michel-Rolph Trouillot was a Haitian American academic and anthropologist. He was a Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. He was best known for his books Open the Social Science (1990), Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995), and Global Transformations (2003), which explored the origins and application of social science in academia and its implications in the world. Trouillot has been one of the most influential thinkers of the Afro-Caribbean diaspora, because he developed wide-ranging academic work centered on Caribbean issues. Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall mentioned that "Trouillot was one of the most original and thoughtful voices in academia. His writings influenced scholars worldwide in many fields, from anthropology to history to Caribbean studies".

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