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Emmanuel Lachaud

(He/Him)

Assistant Professor

I am a historian of the Caribbean, Latin America, and the African Diaspora, whose work examines how emancipation reshaped political culture, sovereignty, and everyday life across the Atlantic world. My current book project, Emancipated Empire: Faustin I Soulouque and the Origins of the Second Haitian Empire, 1847–1859, explores Haiti’s Second Empire as a contested experiment in post-slavery governance and freedom. My broader research and teaching engage topics such as race and state formation, Atlantic slavery and its afterlives, rural resistance, and Black intellectual traditions. At CCNY, I offers courses including Haiti and the Dominican Republic: An Islandwide History, Colonial Latin America, and African Diasporic Experience in the Americas. I also lead a textbook initiative to create open-access, student-centered resources on Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latinx, and African American histories. My teaching and scholarship emphasize critical, decolonial approaches and center Black voices, archives, and intellectual traditions.

Areas of Expertise/Research

• Black Cultural, Social, and Political History
• Atlantic World History
• Black Political Thought
• Slavery
• Caribbean and Latin America
• Haiti
• Dominican Studies