John D. Garrigus

Associate Professor

August, 2007

Department of History

Box 19529

University of Texas at Arlington

Arlington TX 76019-0529

Off: (817) 272-0685

Garrigus@uta.edu

 

Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe [1862]

Current projects:

  • Soliciting writers for unassigned articles and editing the Facts On File Encyclopedia of the Caribbean
  • Gathering recent historiography on the Francophone Caribbean for the HLAS. Please send your citations!
  • Editing a volume of articles on Race and Identity in the New World for the Webb Memorial series
  • Working with Trevor Burnard on a project comparing  eighteenth-century Saint-Domingue and Jamaica
  • Looking for new evidence of black and mulatto freemasonry in Jacmel during the Haitian Revolution
  • Preparing an article on French identity among colonial free people of color in the 1790s for presentation at the CENA/EHESS conference "Être et se penser Français" in October 2008
  • Preparing a paper on Vincent Ogé jeune for the 2009 meeting of the American Historical Society
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    Teaching about the Haitian Revolution

    Order examination copies of  Laurent Dubois and John Garrigus, eds. Slave Revolution in the Caribbean (Bedford St. Martins, 2006).

    For recent historiography on the Francophone Caribbean:   

    Historical maps of Saint-Domingue/Haiti at the University of Florida.

    Work in progress: a gallery of images of Saint-Domingue for teaching.

    Additional primary documents:

    March 3, 1792 "Extract of an original letter, written from the insular West Indies"

    March 14, 1792 "Mulattoes of St. Domingo"

    March 14, 1792 "Address from M. Gregory to the Colored Citizens and Free Negroes of the French Islands in America"

    Garrigus, “White Jacobins/Black Jacobins: Bringing the Haitian and French Revolutions Together in the Classroom,” French Historical Studies, 2000, 23(2): 259-275.

     My 1999 photos of Haiti

    Postcard views of Haiti

    Recent Courses

    A monthly discussion circle in 2008-09 for new UTA faculty on Robert Boice, Advice for New Faculty [no time to read? Here are some notes from UC Santa Barbara]  

    HIST4388: The French Atlantic 1500-1800 (Spring 2009)

    HIST4369: The Caribbean (pdf) (Fall 2007, Spring 2009)
    Class Blog

    HIST2302: World History 2(pdf) -- a new version of the course specially designed for those preparing to be teachers. (Fall 2008; Spring 2009)
    Class Wiki (requires password)

    HIST6337: Introduction to Transatlantic History(pdf) (Fall 2008)
    Class Blog

    HIST6321: Seminar in Exploration, Discovery, and Cartography (pdf) (Spring 2008)
    Seminar Blog

    HIST4366: Colonial Latin America (pdf)
    (Spring 2008)
    Class Blog

    HIST6301: Colloquium in Exploration, Discovery, and Cartography (pdf)(Fall 2007)  

    HIST2302: World History 2 (pdf) (Fall 2007)
    Class Blog

    HIST2301: World History 1 (pdf) (Summer 2, 2007)
    Class Blog

    HIST4388: Cuba: Columbus to Castro  (pdf) (Spring 2007)
    HIST4388: The Haitian Revolution (Fall 2006)

     

    What I Write

    Complete CV [pdf] (June 08)
     Or this -friendly partial publication list

    “'To establish a community of property': Marriage and race before and during the Haitian Revolution,” Journal of the History of the Family 12, no. 2 (2007): 142-152.

    "Opportunist or Patriot?: Julien Raimond (1744-1801) and the Haitian Revolution,"
    Slavery &Abolition     28 (2007): 1-21.

    Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue
    (Palgrave MacMillan,  June 2006)
    Awarded the 2007 Gilbert Chinard Prize by the Society for French Historical Studies.

    Introduction to La Mulâtre ou la femme comme il y a beaucoup de blanches (L'Harmattan, March 2007), an anonymous epistolary novel set in 1770s Saint-Domingue, and published in Paris on the eve of Haitian independence. L'Harmattan does offer the text as a PDF for immediate download.

    Garrigus, older articles for download [pdf versions]
      Last updated on: 11/14/2008