John Garrigus
Associate Professor
Box 19529
University of Texas at Arlington
Arlington TX 76019-0529
UTA History Office: (817) 272-2861
![Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe [1862]](images/Guadeloupe_harbor_panorama2.jpg)
Current projects:
- PhD Advisor for the Transatlantic History Doctoral Program
- Technical advisor to Traversea: Journal of Transatlantic History, an on-line publication of the program's graduate students
- Working with Trevor Burnard on a book comparing Saint-Domingue and Jamaica in the eighteenth century.
- My Zotero homepage with bibliography for current and past projects available to download
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"
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
Courses
Spring 2013
HIST5313: The Caribbean From Columbus to Castro
For MA and PhD students
Fall 2012
HIST2302: World History II
On-line class
HIST5349: Introduction to Transatlantic History
For MA and PhD students
Summer 2012
HIST4366: Latin America: Origins Through Independence
On-line class
Spring 2012
HIST6321: Seminar on Atlantic History Before 1800
Fall 2011
First Year Seminar, HIST1300: Drinking in World History
HIST6301: Colloquium on Exploration and Cartography in the Atlantic World
Summer 2011
On-line HIST2302:World History Since 1500
If you have registered, log into http://elearn.uta.edu
Spring 2011
On-line HIST2302:World History Since 1500
If you have registered, log into http://elearn.uta.edu
HIST6303: Atlantic Revolutions and Transformations
A discussion circle in 2010-11 (pdf) for new UTA faculty on Robert Boice, Advice for New Faculty[no time to read? Here is a reader's guide(pdf) from the University of Southern Indiana]
Fall 2010
On-line HIST2302:World History Since 1500(pdf)
If you have registered, log into http://elearn.uta.edu
On-line HIST4366: Latin America from Origins to Independence(pdf)
If you have registered, log into http://elearn.uta.edu
Spring 2010
HIST2302-001: World History 2(pdf) -- a new completely on-line version of the course. (Spring 2010) WebCT only
HIST2302-003: World History 2(pdf) -- a hybrid version of the course [part on-line, part in-class]. Course schedule (pdf)
HIST6321: Graduate Seminar in Atlantic History to 1800 (pdf)
What I Write
Complete CV [pdf] (Sept. 2012)
Article: "Vincent Ogé Jeune (1757–91): Social Class and Free Colored Mobilization on the Eve of the Haitian Revolution," Americas 68 (July 2011): 33-62.
DOI: 10.1353/tam.2011.0078
In December 2010, Before Haiti became available in a paperback edition
John Garrigus and Christopher Morris, eds, Assumed identities: The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World (Texas A&M University Press, 2010)
“'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.
Garrigus, older articles for download [pdf versions]