Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Haitian academic and anthropologist

Date of Birth: 26-Nov-1949

Place of Birth: Haiti

Date of Death: 04-Jul-2012

Profession: teacher, academic, anthropologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

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.
Trouillot 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 Afro-Caribbean diaspora, because he developed wide-ranging academic work centered on Caribbean issues.
Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall holds 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”.