Julia Gaffield, Ph.D.
Curriculum Vitae, May 2020
25 Park Place, Suite 2139
Atlanta, 30303
www.juliagaffield.com
EDUCATION
Duke University, 2007-2012
Ph.D., Department of History
Dissertation: “So Many Schemes in Agitation”: The Haitian State and the Atlantic World
• Winner of the Richmond Brown Dissertation Prize, Latin American and Caribbean
Section of the Southern Historical Association
York University, Toronto, Canada, 2006-2007
M.A., Department of History
University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 2002-2006
Honors B.A., History Specialist, Major in Caribbean Studies
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2019-present Associate Professor, Department of History, Georgia State University (GSU)
2013-2019 Assistant Professor, Department of History, GSU
2013-2014 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Brandeis University, Sawyer Seminar:
“Rethinking the Age of Revolution: Rights, Representations, and the Global
Imaginary”
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Publications
In Progress
The Abandoned Faithful: Sovereignty, Diplomacy, and Religious Jurisdiction after the Haitian Revolution (under
contract with the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University
of North Carolina Press).
Jean-Jacques Dessalines: Freedom or Death (under contract with Yale University Press, trade contract).
with Nathan Perl-Rosenthal, The Toussaint Louverture Papers Project (Digital Humanities project in
progress).
with Chantalle Verna and Nadève Ménard, critical edition and translation of, St. Victor Jean-
Baptiste, Le Fondateur Devant l’Histoire, (Imprimerie Eben-Ezer, 1954), (in progress).
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Books
Julia Gaffield, Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition after Revolution, (The University of
North Carolina Press, 2015).
• Winner of The Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize, French Colonial
Historical Society, 2016
• Reviewed in: American Historical Review, The William and Mary Quarterly, Reviews
in American History, Hispanic American Historical Review, Journal of Latin
American Studies, Journal of Haitian Studies, International Journal of Maritime
History, Journal of Global Slavery, New West Indian Guide, Choice Reviews, Latin
American Review of Books, The Americas, The Journal of Modern History,
Almanack-Guarulhos, and H-Diplo
Julia Gaffield, editor, The Haitian Declaration of Independence: Creation, Context, and Legacy, (The
University of Virginia Press, 2016).
• Reviewed in: American Historical Review, The William and Mary Quarterly, Small
Axe Salon, Journal of Social History, Slavery & Abolition, New West Indian Guide,
and Early American Literature
Refereed Articles
2020 “The Racialization of International Law in the Aftermath of the Haitian Revolution: The
Holy See and National Sovereignty,” American Historical Review (forthcoming June 2020).
2017 Julia Gaffield and Philip Kaisary, “‘From freedom’s sun some glimmering rays are shed that
cheer the gloomy realms’: Dessalines at Dartmouth, 1804,” Slavery & Abolition 38, no. 1
(2017): 155-177.
2012 Julia Gaffield, “Haiti and Jamaica in the re-making of the early nineteenth century Atlantic
World,” The William and Mary Quarterly 69, no. 3 (2012): 583-614.
2011 Julia Gaffield, “‘Identif[ying] the Island in its new situation’: The struggle for Hayti to
overcome St. Domingo,” Riveneuve Continents 13 (2011): 80-86.
2007 Julia Gaffield, “Complexities of Imagining Haiti: A Study of National Constitutions, 1801-
1807” Journal of Social History 41, no. 1 (2007): 81-103.
Book Chapters
2017 Julia Gaffield, “Reading Declarations: Universal Rights, the Local and the Global,” in
Understanding and Teaching the Age of Revolutions, Ben Marsh and Mike Rapport, eds.,
(University of Wisconsin Press, 2017).
• Reviewed in: H-Diplo
2016 Julia Gaffield, “‘Outrages on the laws of nations’: American Merchants and Diplomacy after
the Haitian Declaration of Independence,” in The Haitian Declaration of Independence: Creation,
Context, and Legacy, Julia Gaffield, ed., (The University of Virginia Press, 2016).
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2016 David Armitage and Julia Gaffield, “Introduction: The Haitian Declaration of Independence
in an Atlantic Context,” in The Haitian Declaration of Independence: Creation, Context, and Legacy,
Julia Gaffield, ed., (The University of Virginia Press, 2016).
2015 Julia Gaffield, “The Haitian Declaration of Independence: Recognition, Freedom, and Anti-
French Sentiment,” Revolutionary Moments: Reading Revolutionary Texts, Rachel Hammersley, ed.,
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2015).
2013 Julia Gaffield, “‘Liberté, Indépendance’: Haitian Antislavery and National Independence,” in
A Global History of Anti-Slavery Politics in the Nineteenth Century, William Mulligan and Maurice
Bric, eds., (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013).
2013 Laurent Dubois, Julia Gaffield, and Michel Acacia, “Haiti, Constitutions 1790-1859,” in
Horst Dippel, ed., The Rise of Modern Constitutionalism, 1776-1849, (University of Kassel, 2013).
Public Scholarship
2019 Julia Gaffield, “Haiti protests summon spirit of the Haitian Revolution to condemn a
president tainted by scandal,” The Conversation, November 15.
• Republished by: Chicago Tribune, Public Radio International, AlterNet, Houston
Chronicle, AP News, The Haitian Times, LatinoUSA (NPR),
2018 Julia Gaffield, “Meet Haiti’s founding father, whose black revolution was too radical for
Thomas Jefferson,” The Conversation, August 30.
• Republished by: LA Times, Chicago Tribune, TIME History, The Haitian Times,
LatinoUSA (NPR), Haiti Gazette, Haïti Liberté, Truthout, AlterNet
2018 Julia Gaffield, “Teaching the Haitian Revolution in the Survey,” YouTube, August 8.
2018 Interviewer for Marlene Daut, “Haitian Writer Baron de Vastey and Black Atlantic
Humanism: An Interview with Marlene L. Daut,” Black Perspectives, African American
Intellectual History Society Blog, June 4.
2017 Julia Gaffield, “Ask the Author,” Common-place: The Journal of Early American Life 17, no. 2
(2017).
2016 Interviewed by Reena Goldthree, “Haiti and the Atlantic World: An Interview with Julia
Gaffield,” Black Perspectives, African American Intellectual History Society Blog, October 10.
2015 Julia Gaffield, “Constitutional Race in Haiti, 1805,” Unique at Penn, University of
Pennsylvania Library, December 21.
2015 Julia Gaffield, “Dessalines Day, October 17,” UNC Press Blog, October 16.
2014 Julia Gaffield, “Haiti’s Declaration of Independence: Digging for Lost Documents in the
Archives of the Atlantic World,” The Appendix 2, no. 1 (2014).
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Contributions to Collaborative Projects
2020 Contributing editor, “Haitian Hymn” and “Jean-Jacques Dessalines: Writings,” The Haiti
Reader, (Duke University Press, 2020).
Book Reviews
2017 Review Essay of The Haitian Revolution and the Early United States. Edited by Elizabeth
Maddock Dilon and Michael Drexler; and Dangerous Neighbors: Making the Haitian Revolution in
Early American. By James Alexander Dun, Reviews in American History 54, no. 3 (2017): 404-
409.
2016 Review of Liberty, Fraternity, Exile: Haiti and Jamaica after Emancipation. By Matthew J. Smith,
Journal of Latin American Studies 48, no. 4 (2016): 858-860.
2016 Review of Caribbean Crossing: African Americans and the Haitian Emigration Movement. By Sara
Fanning, Journal of American Ethnic History 36, no. 1 (2016): 96-97.
2016 Review of Diplomacy in Black and White: John Adams, Toussaint Louverture, and Their Atlantic
World Alliance. By Ronald Angelo Johnson, Presidential Studies Quarterly 46, no. 2 (2016): 487-
488.
2016 Review of The Haitian Revolution: A Documentary History. Edited and Translated, with an
Introduction, by David Geggus, Slavery & Abolition 37, no. 1 (2016): 1-2.
2014 Review of An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti. By Marcus Rainsford, The Americas
70, no. 4 (2014): 758-759. (error in printing, published under “Julia Gaffney”)
2014 Review of Three Ancient Colonies: Caribbean Themes and Variations. By Sidney Wilfred Mintz,
Hispanic American Historical Review 94, no. 1 (2014): 112-114.
2011 Review of Red and Black in Haiti: Radicalism, Conflict, and Political Change, 1934-1957. By
Matthew Jordan Smith, Journal of Social History 44, no. 4 (2011): 1252-1254.
2010 Review of Brother’s Keeper: The United States, Race, and Empire in the British Caribbean, 1937-1962.
By Jason C. Parker, Journal of Social History 43, no. 3 (2010): 1100-1102.
Dictionary and Encyclopedia Entries
2016 “Jean-Jacques Dessalines,” Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, Henry
Louis Gates, Jr. and Franklin W. Knight, eds., (Oxford University Press, 2016).
2016 “Boisrond-Tonnerre, Louis Félix,” Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography,
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Franklin W. Knight, eds., (Oxford University Press, 2016).
2016 “Alexandre Sabés Pétion,” Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography, Henry
Louis Gates, Jr. and Franklin W. Knight, eds., (Oxford University Press, 2016).
2016 “The Haitian Revolution,” America in the World, 1776 to the Present: A Supplement to the
Dictionary of American History. 2 vols., Edward J. Blum, ed., (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2016).
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Awards, Grants, and Fellowships
2020 Luce/ACLS Fellowship in Religion, Journalism, and International Affairs, American Council
of Learned Societies ($55,000)
2019 Library Travel Research Grant, University of Florida, Center for Latin American Studies
2019 Lead Grant Writer, PI: Musée du Panthéon National Haïtienne (MUPANAH), B. H.
Breslauer Foundation ($10,000)
2019 Lapidus Initiative Fellowship for Digital Collections (with Jennifer Palmer and Patrick
Tardieu, Bibliothèque Haïtienne des Spiritains), Omohundro Institute, William & Mary
($5,000)
2018 Teaching Module Grant, Classroom to Career Quality Enhancement Program, GSU
2018 ACLS Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies ($40,000)
2018 Scholarly Support Grant, GSU ($20,000)
2018 Faculty Fellow, Humanities Research Center, GSU
2017 Cleon C. Arrington Research Initiation Grant, GSU ($20,000)
2017 The Dean’s Early Career Award, GSU
2017 Program for Adjusting Workloads for Junior Faculty (PAWS Jr), GSU
2016 Mary Alice and Philip Boucher Book Prize, French Colonial Historical Society
2016 Provost’s Faculty Research Fellowship, GSU ($25,000)
2015 Institutional Support Grant, Center for Latin American and Latino Studies, GSU
2014 Transatlantic Fellowship for Postdoctoral Fellows, The University of Warwick
2013 Dissertation Prize, Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical
Association
2013 New Faculty Fellow Award, American Council of Learned Societies, (declined)
2013 Center for New World Comparative Studies Short-Term Fellowship, John Carter Brown
Library, Brown University
2010 Dissertation Working Group Grant, Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University
2012 Harvard Atlantic World Research Seminar, Short-Term Research Grant
2007 Doctoral Fellowship, Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
($20,000/year for 4 years)
2007 Canada Graduate Scholarship for Doctoral Studies, SSHRC, ($35,000/year) (declined,
required to be enrolled in a Canadian University)
2007 Canada-US Fulbright Scholar
2007 Ontario Graduate Scholarship (declined, required to be enrolled in a Canadian University)
Select Invited Talks
2020 Panelist, “Plenary Roundtable: The Caribbean World,” Society for Historians of American
Foreign Relations (SHAFR), New Orleans, June 19 (canceled due to Covid-19).
2020 “Haitian Sovereignty in a Global Context,” Sammy O. Cranford Memorial History Lecture, Delta
State University, March 23 (canceled due to Covid-19).
2020 Panelist, “Caribbean Shores: Networks, Materiality, and Resistance Under Slavery,”
University of California, Santa Cruz, March 7.
2019 “Taking Stock of the Archives of Saint-Domingue (Haiti),” an exploratory seminar
organized by Malick Ghachem and Jean Hébrard, Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University,
November 4-5.
2019 “The Racialization of International Law in the Aftermath of the Haitian Revolution,”
Empires and Atlantics Forum, University of Chicago, October 4.
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2019 “Legacies of the New World Avenger,” a conversation with Laurent Dubois, Grégory
Pierrot, and Marlene Daut, The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African
Studies, University of Virginia, May 3.
2019 “‘Je suis Chrétien, Chrétien, moi!’: Emperor Faustin I of Haiti and Abbé Moussa, Africain,
and the Fight for a National Church,” Circum-Atlantic Studies Seminar, Vanderbilt University,
April 17.
2019 “The Racialization of International Law in the Aftermath of the Haitian Revolution: The
Catholic Church and National Sovereignty,” Alessandro S. Crisafulli Lecture Series, The Catholic
University of America, April 3.
2019 “International Law and The Racialization of Sovereignty in the Aftermath of the Haitian
Revolution,” Race and Slavery Working Group, Yale University, February 20.
2018 Roundtable Panelist, “Anti-Colonial Independence Revolutions in the Americas,” Santiago,
Chile, Funded by the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies and the
University of Notre Dame, December 4-6.
2018 “‘I have been confided in by the Pope to save Hayti, if I can’: Sovereignty, Race, and
Religious Dominion in the Aftermath of Revolution,” University of Oklahoma and co-
sponsored by the Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage, November 14.
2018 Roundtable Panelist, “Democracy in Global Perspectives,” Lepage Center for History in the
Public Interest, Villanova University, November 12.
2018 Roundtable Panelist, “Haiti and the Digital Humanities,” Enduring Questions, New Methods:
Haitian Studies in the 21
st
Century, The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American and
African Studies, University of Virginia, April 12-13.
2018 “Imperial Friendship: British de facto Recognition of the Haitian Declaration of
Independence,” Global Encounters and the Archives: Britain’s Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century,
Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, February 9-10.
2017 “A New Chronology of The Revolution: Perspective and the Archive,” Haiti: Slavery,
Resistance, Revolution, A Symposium in Honor of Carolyn Fick, Concordia University, Montreal,
September 8.
2012 Panelist, “Adventures in the Archives: Discovering the Treasures of the Age of Revolution,”
The Age of Revolution: A Whole History, The New-York Historical Society, January 21.
Select Conference Presentations
2019 “‘I have been confided in by the Pope to save Hayti, if I can’: Sovereignty, Diplomacy, and
Religious Dominion in the Aftermath of Revolution,” American Historical Association: Annual
Meeting, Chicago, January 3-6.
2017 “‘I have been confided in by the Pope to save Hayti, if I can’: Church, State, and the Politics
of Atlantic Slavery,” The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Philadelphia, July
20-23.
2016 “The End of the Revolution?: The Haitian Declaration of Independence,” American Historical
Association: Annual Meeting, Atlanta, January 7-9.
2015 “Haitian Diplomacy after 1804: Sovereignty and Trade with the British Empire,” Haitian
Studies Association: Annual Conference, Montreal, October 22-24.
2015 with Philip Kaisary, “‘From freedom’s sun some glimmering rays are shed that cheer the
gloomy realms’: Dessalines at Dartmouth, 1804,” After Revolution: Versions and Re-visions of
Haiti, Institute for Black Atlantic Research, University of Central Lancashire, July 8-9.
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2014 “The British Empire and the States of Hayti,” Society of Early Americanists: Special Topics
Conference on London and the Americas, 1492-1812, July 17-19.
2014 with Jane Kamensky and Susan Lanser, “The Age of Revolutions,” William and Mary
Quarterly and USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute Workshop, May 30-31.
Professional Training
2019 “Contemplative Practice and Non-fiction Writing,” with George Haskell, GSU, April 16.
2018 “How to Write for a Wide Audience: Part 2,” with Douglas A. Blackmon, GSU, September
24.
2018 “GIS 1: Intro to Creating Web Maps using ArcGIS Online,” GSU, September 26.
2018 “How to Write for a Wider Audience,” with Douglas A. Blackmon, GSU, May 15.
2017 Omeka In-Depth: Publish Online Catalogues, Archives, Collections, Exhibitions, GSU,
October 9-10.
2014 NuLab Omeka/Neatline Workshop, Northeastern University, April 5.
2013 S4 Summer GIS Institute, Brown University, May 20-31.
TEACHING
Courses Taught
Georgia State University (Fall 2014-Present)
HIST1112 World History Since 1500 (Undergraduate)
HIST3000 Introduction to Historical Studies (Undergraduate)
HIST3620 Atlantic World History (Undergraduate)
HIST7000 Theory and Methods (Graduate)
HIST7050 Research Seminar (Graduate)
HIST8460 Seminar in Atlantic World History (Graduate)
East Carolina University (2012)
HIST6930 Atlantic World Seminar (Graduate)
University of North Carolina at Greensboro (2012)
HIS702 Atlantic World Colloquium (Graduate)
HIS508 Independence and Decolonization in the Americas (Undergraduate)
Pedagogical Training
2018 Mapping Across the Curriculum, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, GSU
2017 Who’s Hiring Your Students? GSU, Career Center
2017 Appreciative Advising and the Appreciative Education Philosophy with Jennifer Bloom,
Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, GSU
2017 Reacting to the Past Workshop, Department of History, GSU
2016 Writing Across the Curriculum, GSU
2016 Career Diversity for Ph.D. Students, GSU and the American Historical Association
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Invited Pedagogical Lectures
2018 HIST3500: France and Haiti in Revolution: Race and the Rights of Man, Presidential Dream
Course taught by Jennifer J. Davis, University of Oklahoma
2018 Bennion Teachers’ Workshop, Revolution, Representation, Propaganda: Democracy in the 18
th
-Century
Atlantic, led by Julia Gossard, Utah State University
2018 HIS6934: Politics and Economy in the Age of Revolutions, taught by Rafe Blaufarb and
Elizabeth Cross, Florida State University
2017 HIST562R/ILA790/ANT585: Themes and Approaches in Latin American History, taught
by Karen Stolley and Yanna Yannakakis, Emory University
2017 HIST7900: Theory and Practice, taught by Jennifer Palmer, University of Georgia
2017 HIST6200: Atlantic Revolutions Graduate Seminar, taught by Jennifer J. Davis, University of
Oklahoma
Teaching Service
2019 Mentor, Humanities Inclusivity Program, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, GSU
SERVICE
Professional Service
Editorial
2018-present Editorial Board, Haiti History Journal: Haiti and the Atlantic World/Revue d’histoire
d’Haïti: Haïti et le Monde Atlantique
2016-present Co-editor, H-Haiti (with Marlene Daut)
Scholarly Organizations
2018-present Moderator and Founder, Georgia Atlantic, Latin American, and Caribbean Studies
Initiative (GALACSI), FCHI Interdisciplinary Research Seminar (CHIIRS), Fox Center for
Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University; co-sponsored by the Humanities Research Center at
GSU and the Wilson Center for the Humanities & Arts at the University of Georgia
2018 President, Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association
2018-2019 Book Prize Committee Member, French Colonial Historical Society
2017 Vice-President, Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical
Association
2014 Dissertation Prize Committee Member, Latin American and Caribbean Section of the
Southern Historical Association
2011 Program Committee, Canadian Historical Association’s Annual Conference
Peer Review
Article Manuscript review for: The William and Mary Quarterly; Law and History Review; Journal
of Haitian Studies; Eighteenth-Century Studies; French Colonial History; Early American Studies,
Monde(s); Histoire, Espaces, Relations; sx archipelagos; Atlantic Studies, Traversea, Bulletin of Latin
American Research; Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History; New West India
Guide; Catholic Historical Review
Book Manuscript review for: University of Georgia Press; Yale University Press
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Book Proposal review for: The University of North Carolina Press; Cambridge University Press;
Palgrave MacMillan
Conferences Organized
2019 “The Toussaint Louverture Papers Project: A Workshop,” co-organized with Nathan Perl-
Rosenthal (University of Southern California), USC-Huntington, Early Modern Studies
Institute.
2016 “Research and Evidence: Cities in the Global South,” a student-centered symposium jointly
sponsored by the Center for Faculty Development and Excellence at Emory, the President's
Office and the Department of History at the University of Georgia, and the World History
Association at Georgia State University and in collaboration with GALACSI.
2013 “The Haitian Declaration of Independence in an Atlantic Context,” Robert H. Smith
International Center for Jefferson Studies.
2010 “Haiti’s History: Foundations for the Future,” organized with Laurent Dubois (Duke), Jean
Casimir (L’Université de l’Etat d’Haïti), and Deborah Jenson (Duke), Duke University.
University Service
2019 Chair, Tenure-Track Search Committee, Department of History, GSU
MEDIA
Newspapers
2019 Peter Beaumont, “Sick of corruption, Haiti looks back to its revolutionary hero for hope,”
The Guardian, December 7.
2019 Haiti Libre, “The MUPANAH acquires 4 rare manuscripts on Toussaint Louverture,”
August 17.
2019 Jean Pharès Jérôme, “La Bibliothèque haïtienne des pères du Saint-Esprit rouvre ses portes
avec de Nouvelles perspectives,” Le Nouvelliste, Haiti, February 6.
2018 Frantz Duval, “Julia Gaffield: à la recherche de l’histoire d’Haïti,” Le Nouvelliste, Haiti, March
28.
2010 Will Pavia, “Julia Gaffield discovers Haiti founding document in British National Archives,”
The Sunday Times, London, April 2.
2010 Damien Cave, “Haiti’s Founding Document Found in London,” The New York Times, April
1.
2010 Siri Agrell, “Grad student uncovers Haiti’s Declaration of Independence,” The Globe and
Mail, Canada, April 1.
2010 Emery P. Dalesio, “Grad student uncovers Haitian founding document,” Associated Press,
April 1.
Magazines
2015 Louise Flynn, “Update,” Duke Magazine, Winter.
2010 Robert J. Bliwise, “Documenting Freedom,” Duke Magazine, June.
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Radio
2010 Interview on BBC World Service, London, 1 April.
2010 Interview with Marco Werman on PRI’s “The World” from BBC, PRI, and WGBH, April 1.
2010 Interview with Carol Off and Barbara Budd on “As it Happens” on CBC Radio 1, April 1
(part one).
2010 Interview with Frank Stasio, “Discovering Haiti's Declaration of Independence,” The State
of Things, North Carolina Public Radio, August.
Online
2018 “AHA Member Spotlight: Julia Gaffield,” AHA Today: Everything Has a History, American
Historical Association, June 26.
2016 Tiffany L. Carter, “History Professor Selected as 2016 Boucher Prize Winner,” College of
Arts and Sciences, Georgia State University, June 22.
2016 “Q&A with Prof. Julia Gaffield,” Haitian History Blog, January 10.
2015 Tiffany L. Carter, “Professor’s New Book Examines Aftermath of Haitian Revolution,”
College of Arts and Sciences, Georgia State University, October 14.
2014 Featured Alumni, Caribbean Studies Program, New College at the University of Toronto.
