Education
BA Duke University
PhD University of Michigan
Research Interests
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 Efímera, published by the Archivo General de la Nación 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.
Some Notable Publications
- "The End of Early America in Unified Haiti," Forum: The End of Early America, ed. by Vanessa Holden and Michael Witgen, William & Mary Quarterly 81 (Forthcoming January 2024).
- “Illegal Under the Laws of All Nations? The Courts of Haiti and the Suppression of the Atlantic Trade in African Captives,” Law and History Review 37 (2019): 539-569.
- “All Spirits Are Roused: The 1822 Antislavery Revolution in Haitian Santo Domingo,” Slavery & Abolition 40 (2019): 583-605.
- “The Haitian Revolution and Independence in Latin America,” in The Routledge Companion to Nineteenth-Century Latin America, ed. by Graciela Raquel Montaldo and Agnes Lugo-Ortiz (New York: Routledge, 2024).
- “Una revolución armoniosa? Esclavitud e independencia efímera en Santo Domingo según los intelectuales haitianos de la época de la unificación, 1822-1844,” in Santo Domingo, 1821-2021: Bicentenario de la Independencia Efímera, ed. by Darío Tejeda (Santo Domingo: Archivo General de la Nación, 2023).