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Andrew Walker is a historian of slavery, emancipation, nation-building, and racial formations in the Atlantic World, with a focus on Haiti and the Greater Caribbean in the nineteenth-century.

His current book project, Haitian Santo Domingo: From Emancipation to Separation, uses local notarial and administrative records from the city of Santo Domingo to tell the story of how Hispaniola, an island governed by independent Haiti for 22 years, became divided into two nations. The book argues that the transition from unification to division cemented revolutionary antislavery as a foundational legacy of both Haiti and the Dominican Republic, but also generated paradoxical silences surrounding racial inequalities in the modern Dominican Republic.

Dr. Walker’s published work has appeared in the William & Mary Quarterly, the Law and History Review, and Slavery & Abolition. He has also contributed book chapters to the Routledge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America and the edited volume Santo Domingo, 1821-2021: Bicentenario de la Independencia Efi?mera, published by the Archivo General de la NaciĆ³n of the Dominican Republic.

Previously, Dr. Walker held postdoctoral fellowships at the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and at Wesleyan University. Dr. Walker received a Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan, and a B.A. in History and French Studies from Duke University.

Dr. Walker teaches courses on Caribbean history, modern Latin American history, and Latin American studies.

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