Taber, Robert D

Robert D. Taber, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, History
Office: Taylor Science 209E
Email: rtaber@uncfsu.edu
Phone: 910-672-2527

Academia.edu profile<https://uncfsu.academia.edu/RobTaber>     

Biography

• PhD in Latin American History, University of Florida
• MA in Latin American History, University of Florida
• BA (Honors) in History, Brigham Young University

Teaching Courses

• HIST 110, World History to 1600
• HIST 210, African American History
• HIST 350, Latin American History
• HIST 420, Problems in World History
  • Pirates in the Caribbean
  • Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition
  • Atlantic Revolutions

Research Interests

• Haiti (colonial and revolutionary)
• Latin America
• Atlantic World

Publications

Books

• Co-editor with Charlton Yingling, "Free Communities of Color and the Revolutionary Caribbean: Overturning or Turning Back?" Atlantic Studies (in progress).
• The Haitian Revolution and the Making of the Modern World, manuscript in progress, under contract with Reaktion Books/University of Chicago Press.

Articles, Long Essays, and Book Chapters

• “‘Le Sens Commun’: Atlantic Pathways and Imagination in Saint-Domingue’s Affiches Américaines,” The Latin Americanist 61/4 (December 2017).
• “Navigating Haiti's History: Saint-Domingue and the Haitian Revolution,” History Compass, Volume 13, Issue 5, May 2015, 235-250.
• “Family Formation, Race, and Honor in Colonial Haiti’s Communities, 1670-1789” chapter in French Connections: Cultural Mobility in North America and the Atlantic World, Robert Englebert and Andrew Wegmann, eds., (Louisiana State University Press, November 2020) (invited). *Winner of the Wilson Book Prize*
• (with Charlton Yingling) "Networks, Tastes, and Labor in Free Communities of Color: Transforming the Revolutionary Caribbean" in Taber and Yingling, Free Communities of Color and the Revolutionary Caribbean: Overturning, or Turning Back? (Routledge, March 2018), 1-12.
• "Archives of the Revolution: Toward New Narratives of Haiti and the Revolution," The William & Mary Quarterly, July 2018.
• “Ending World History Part One…in 1763?” Age of Revolutions, December 2022.
• (with Anne Eller) “The Caribbean in the US Survey: Sustaining a Dialogue” Teaching United States History, October 2019.
• “You Can’t Teach the Age of Revolutions Without the Black Intellectual Tradition” Age of Revolutions, January 2019.
• “Rumor and Report in Affiches Américaines: Saint-Domingue’s American Revolution” Age of Revolutions, September 2017.
• “The Mystery of Marie Rose: Family, Politics, and the Origins of the Haitian Revolution” Age of Revolutions, January 2016.