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Richard Lee Turits is a Professor of History at William & Mary's College of Arts & Sciences, specializing in Caribbean and Latin American history with a focus on the Hispanic Caribbean and Haiti. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, an M.A. from Yale University, and a B.A. from Brown University.
- Education:
- B.A., Brown University
- M.A., Yale University
- Ph.D., University of Chicago
His research emphasizes histories of race, slavery, violence, peasantries, authoritarian regimes, and U.S. imperial interventions. Major works include Foundations of Despotism (2003) and Freedom Roots (2019), which have received prestigious awards including the John Edwin Fagg Prize and Bolton-Johnson Prize. His article on the 1937 Haitian Massacre in the Dominican Republic is a seminal work translated into multiple languages.
Current research includes a book on slavery, freedom, and racial identity in colonial Santo Domingo and the Dominican Republic.
- Awards/Fellowships:
- National Humanities Center Fellowship
- NEH, ACLS, and SSRC grants
- Fulbright and Fulbright-Hays Fellowships
Prior roles include directing the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at the University of Michigan (2007-2012) and teaching at Princeton University.
