Malick Ghachem

Malick Ghachem is a Professor of History at MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS). He specializes in Atlantic World history, with a focus on revolutionary movements, slavery, and legal institutions in Haiti and French colonial Saint-Domingue. His seminal work The Old Regime and the Haitian Revolution (2024) reinterprets the Haitian Revolution through legal and economic frameworks.

His research spans legal history, including analyses of corporate power in 18th-century Haiti and the intersection of free speech with academic governance at MIT. He has held visiting roles at Harvard's Radcliffe Institute and contributed to the MIT Slavery Project, investigating MIT's historical ties to slavery.

Ghachem is also engaged in public advocacy, including police reform initiatives in Newton, MA, and fundraising for Haitian development projects. His writing appears in Academe, Foreign Policy, and Southern California Law Review.