 Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History
Latin American and Caribbean social and economic
history with emphasis on the late colonial period,
an interest in American slave systems, and the modern Caribbean
The Johns Hopkins University
Department of History
2850 North Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21218 Telephone: 410-516-7591
E-mail: fknight@jhu.edu Office Hours: Thursday 12-2pm and by appointment
Dell House 1401A
Curriculum Vitae
Franklin W. Knight joined the faculty of the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore in 1973 and in 1991 was appointed the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History. A graduate of the University College of the West Indies-London [B. A.(Hons.) 1964], he gained the M. A. (1965) and Ph.D. (1969) degrees from the University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Knight has held fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the Ford Foundation, and the National Humanities Center. He has served on committees of the Social Science Research Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Inter-American Foundation, the National Research Council, the American Historical Association, the Conference of Latin American History, The Latin American Studies Association, The American Council of learned Societies, The Historical Society, and the Association of Caribbean Historians. His analyses of Latin American and Caribbean problems have been aired on National Public Radio, the Voice of America, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the McNeill/Lehrer Report, C-Span, and many local programs on commercial as well as public radio and television stations across the United States. He served as academic consultant to the television series Columbus and the Age of Discovery; The Buried Mirror; Americas; Plagued: Invisible Armies; Crucible of Empire: The War of 1898, The Crucible of the Millenium; and The Louisiana Purchase.
Knight’s research interests focus on social, political and cultural aspects of Latin America and the Caribbean especially after the eighteenth century as well as on American slave systems in their comparative dimensions. His major publications include: Slave Society in Cuba during the Nineteenth Century (Wisconsin, 1970); The African Dimension of Latin American Societies (Macmillan, 1974); The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism (Oxford, 1978; 2nd Edition, revised 1990); Africa and the Caribbean: Legacies of a Link co-edited with Margaret Crahan (Johns Hopkins, 1979); The Modern Caribbean co-edited with Colin A. Palmer (Chapel Hill, 1989); Atlantic Port Cities: Economy, Culture and Society in the Atlantic World, 1650-1850 co-edited with Peggy K. Liss (Tennessee, 1991), UNESCO General History of the Caribbean, volume III: The Slave Societies of the Caribbean (London and Basingstoke: UNESCO Publishing/Macmillan Educational Publishing, 1997), and edited a new translation of Bartolomé de Las Casas, An Introduction, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies (Hackett, 2003) as well as with Teresita Martinez Vergne, Contemporray Caribbean Cultures and Societies in a Global Context, (Chapel Hill, 2005). He was co-translator of Sugar and Railroads, A Cuban History, 1837-1959 by Oscar Zanetti and Alejandro García (Chapel Hill, 1998). In addition, he has published more than 82 articles, chapters, and forewords, as well as more than 140 book reviews in professional journals.
Between 1974 and 1982 Knight co-edited the Johns Hopkins University Press series of studies in Atlantic History and Culture; and between 1975 and 1986 he edited the Caribbean section of the Handbook of Latin American Studies published by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. He is currently writing a general history of Cuba.
Professor Knight is President of The Historical Society (2004-2006) , and served as President of the Latin American Studies Association between October 1998 and May 2000. He also serves on advisory committees of the National Research Council, the Handbook of Latin American Studies of the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and the editorial boards of several academic journals. He has lectured across the Americas as well as Australia, Japan and Europe. In 2001 he was elected a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Letters of Bahia, Brazil.
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