John D. French (Spring ’07), professor of history and African and African-American studies at Duke University, coauthored (with Alexandre Fortes) “Nurturing Hope, Deepening Democracy, and Combating Inequalities in Brazil: Lula, the Workers’ Party, and Dilma Rousseff's 2010 Election as President,” in Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 9,1 (2012). With Antonio Negro, he contributed “Politics, Memory, and Working Class Life in the Commercial Biopic Lula, Son of Brazil” to A Contracorriente: A Journal of Social History and Literature 8, 3 (Spring 2011).