John French
John French is an associate professor in the Department of History at Duke University and is a spring 2007 Visiting Fellow at Kellogg. His most recent book is Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture (University of North Carolina Press, 2004). During his visiting fellowship at Kellogg, he plans to work on a project titled, “The Origin of Brazil’s Lula: Building Movements in a World in Flux, São Paulo, 1950–1980.” This project will investigate leadership dynamics among Brazilian metalworkers that led to massive strikes in the late 1970s, headed by Brazil’s current President, Luis Inácio Lula da Silva. He is also working on a book entitled “Globalizing Protest and Policy: Neo-Liberalism, Worker Rights, and the Rise of Alt-Global Politics” that reflects ongoing research labor and globalization. French has previously served as director of the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (2001–05), and as director of the Carolina and Duke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies (2002–05). French has received major fellowships from Fulbright-Hays (1981–82, 2000), the Inter-American Foundation (1981–83), the Social Science Research Council (1981–83, 1991), the National Humanities Center (1995–96), and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2005–06). French holds a PhD in history from Yale University.
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