Science, Medicine & Engineering
Distinguished
Michel-Rolph Trouillot
1949 – 2012
Anthropologist, author of Silencing the Past
Distinguished is level 3 of 4 in the Haiti Hall of Fame: sustained excellence over a career, widely honoured at home. See how the levels work.
Why they are here
An anthropologist and historian whose book Silencing the Past (1995) showed how the Haitian Revolution had been left out of the story the world tells about itself.
He taught at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Chicago.
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