Rate My Professor John Garrigus

Garrigus has made significant contributions to the field through key publications, including A Secret Among the Blacks: Slave Resistance before the Haitian Revolution (Harvard University Press, 2023), which argues that reported slave poisonings were actually caused by livestock diseases like anthrax; Before Haiti: Race and Citizenship in French Saint-Domingue (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), awarded the Gilbert Chinard Prize by the Society for French Historical Studies; The Plantation Machine: Atlantic Capitalism in French Saint-Domingue and British Jamaica, co-authored with Trevor Burnard (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016); and Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A Brief History with Documents, co-edited with Laurent Dubois (Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, 2006, second edition 2016). His extensive body of peer-reviewed articles appears in journals such as The Americas, Slavery & Abolition, and William & Mary Quarterly, with over 1,600 citations on Google Scholar. Among his major awards and fellowships are the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship (2019-2021), Hurford Family Fellowship at the National Humanities Center (2017-2018), Tibesar Prize from the Conference on Latin American History (1994), and several teaching honors including the Alicia Smotherman Award for Innovative Teaching (2009). His scholarship has reshaped understandings of the precursors to the Haitian Revolution, earning accolades such as selection of his 2023 book as one of the best scholarly works by the Chronicle of Higher Education and Times Literary Supplement.