John D. French | Scholars@Duke

John D. French
Professor of History

I am a professor of History and African and African-American Studies at Duke University in Durham North Carolina. With a B.A. from Amherst College, I received my doctorate at Yale in 1985 under Brazilian historian Emília Viotti da Costa. Since 1979, I have been studying class, race, and politics in Brazil, Latin America, and beyond with 42 refereed articles and three books: The Brazilian Workers ABC (1992/1995 in Brazil), Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture (2004; 2002 in Brazil), and a coedited volume The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers (1997). I have just completed the first of a multivolume biography of Brazilian trade unionist turned President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva: The Unknown Lula: The Origins of a Brazilian President, 1945-1968 .

I have over the years served as Director of the Duke's Latin American Center and the Carolina-Duke Consortium, Treasurer of our national interdisciplinary organization LASA, and co-editor of the Hispanic American Historical Review for a five year term that ended in June 2017. Over the past five years, I have founder and served as co-director of the Duke Brazil Initiative, the Global Brazil Humanities Lab of the Franklin Humanities Institute (2014-17), and a leader of the Bass Connections Project om "The Cost of Opportunity: Social Mobility and Higher Education in Rio's Baixada Fluminense"

https://sites.duke.edu/project_duke_baixada_project/

My past grad advisees have completed dissertations on Bolivia, Brazil (2), Chile, Jamaica & Trinidad and Tobago, Peru, Venezuela, and southeastern pacific marine environmental history. My graduate teaching includes the "Modern Latin American History" colloquium, a two semester sequence on "Afro-Brazilian History and Culture," and "The Latin American Wars of Indepenedence." Over the years, I have directed numerous undergraduate theses in a variety of disciplines, eight of which won prizes. My undergraduate offerings include surveys of Brazilian, Afro-Brazilian, and Modern Latin American history and Global Protest with a new offering planned on the political and military history of the Latin American Wars of Independence.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2007
Professor of the International Comparative Studies Program, International Comparative Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018

Contact Information

331 Carr Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
jdfrench@duke.edu (919) 684-2536

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Yale University 1985
Duke Appointment History
- Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies, African & African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015 - 2017
- Professor of African and African American Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, Duke University 2009 - 2012
- Associate Professor with Tenure, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1995 - 2007
- Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Romance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2002 - 2005
- Assistant Professor, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1992 - 1995
Recognition
In the News
- JUN 28, 2018 Bass Connections
  
  Collaborative Research in Brazil Delves into Higher Education, Politics and Social Justice
- APR 11, 2018
  
  The Amazon: A Natural Laboratory for the Study of the Environment, Politics and Society
- MAR 13, 2017
  
  March 27 Conference to Explore Cost of Opportunity Related to Higher Education in Brazil
- DEC 6, 2016
  
  Bass Connections in Brazil
- SEP 13, 2016
  
  The Cost of Opportunity in the Baixada Fluminense, Brazil
- MAR 21, 2016 NDTV-New Delhi
  
  John French comments: Rival protests ignite debate on race, class in Brazil
- SEP 1, 2015
  
  The Global Brazil Humanities Lab
- MAR 17, 2015
  
  Conference Puts Spotlight on Brazil
- JUL 8, 2014
  
  Tiffany Lieu: Drawn by the Connections of History
- MAR 13, 2014
  
  Global Brazil Humanities Lab to Debut
- JAN 21, 2014
  
  New Duke Brazil Initiative Connects Students, Faculty to Brazil
- DEC 18, 2013 Public Radio International
  
  John French comments: Don't expect Brazil to offer Snowden asylum
Awards & Honors
- 2009 Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring. Unknown. January 2009
- Fellows. Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars. 2006
- Fellow. National Humanities Center. 1995
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
  - Brazil (Country)
- Research
  - Brazil (Country)
Research
Selected Grants
- Visiting Faculty Share Agreement awarded by University of Richmond 2014
- Beyond the Battlefield: The Labor of Military Service in Latin America and the Caribbean awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2010 - 2011
- Assessing the First Term in Office of President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva (2002-2010): Ruptures or Continuity in Public awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2007 - 2008
- "Lectures by scholars doing cutting-edge research on Latin America in Spring 2001" awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2001
- Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program awarded by Department of Education 1999 - 2000
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - French, J. D. Lula’s Politics of Cunning: From Trade Unionism to the Brazilian Presidency, 2007.
  - French, J. D. Drowning in Laws: Labor Law and Brazilian Political Culture. University of North Carolina Press, 2004.
  - French, J. D. Afogados em Leis: A CLT e a Cultura Politica dos Trabalhadores Brasileiros. Sao Paulo: Fundacao Perseu Abramo, 2001.
  - French, J. D., and Alexandre Fortes. Urban Labor History in Twentieth Century Brazil. Albuquerque: Latin American Institute/University of New Mexico, 1998.
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  - French, J. D. O ABC dos Operários: Conflitos e Alianças de Classe em São Paulo, 1900-1950, 1995.
  - French, J. D. The Brazilian Workers’ ABC: Class Conflict and Alliances in Modern Sao Paulo. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1992.
- Academic Articles
  - Wolford, W., and J. D. French. “Deconstructing the post-neoliberal state.” Latin American Perspectives 43, no. 2 (March 1, 2016): 4–21. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X15623766.
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  - French, John D. “The tessitura of rights: employers and employees in labor law, 1953-1964.” Hahr Hispanic American Historical Review 93, no. 4 (November 2013): 723–24.
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  - French, J. D. “Política, Memória, e Vida Operaria na Cinebiografia Lula, Filho do Brasil.” Perseu. História, Memória E Política [Revisa Do Centro Sérgio Buarque De Holanda Da Fundação Perseu Abramo], 2013, 259–77.
  - French, J. D. “Review of A tessitura dos direitos: Patrões e empregados na justiça do trabalho, 1953 – 1964 by Larissa Correia.” Hispanic American Historical Review 93 (2013): 723–24.
  - Fortes, A., and J. French. “The "Lula Era", the 2010 presidential elections and the challenges of post-neoliberalism.” Tempo Social 24, no. 1 (December 1, 2012): 201–28. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0103-20702012000100011.
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  - French, J. D., and A. Fortes. “When the plumber(s) come to fix a country: Doing Labor History in Brazil.” International Labor and Working Class History 82, no. 1 (September 1, 2012): 117–26. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547912000336.
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  - French, John D. “Oliver J. Dinius. Brazil's Steel City: Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941-1964 - Brazil's Steel City: Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941-1964. By Oliver J. Dinius. Stanford, Conn.: Stanford University Press, 2011. Pp. xxi, 352. Illustrations. Tables. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $65.00 hardcover..” The Americas 68, no. 4 (April 2012): 599–602. https://doi.org/10.1353/tam.2012.0035.
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  - French, J. D. “Review of Oliver Dinius, Brazil’s Steel City: Developmentalism, Strategic Power, and Industrial Relations in Volta Redonda, 1941-1964 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010).” The Americas 68 (2012): 599–602.
  - French, J. D. “"Kill the Americans!": The U.S. Government, Citizens, and Companies in Latin America from the Panama Canal to Plan Colombia.” Radical History Review 2012, no. 112 (January 1, 2012): 201–8. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1416259.
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  - French, J. D. “Robert Jackson Alexander (1918 - 2010).” Hispanic American Historical Review 91, no. 1 (February 1, 2011): 163–64. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2010-090.
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  - French, J. D. “Comparative Perspectives on Politics: An Interview with Dr. Alexandre Fortes and Dr. John D. French.” Journal of Global Affairs 2011 (2011): 1–5.
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  - French, J. D., and Alexandre Fortes. “Nurturing Hope, Deepening Democracy, and Combating Inequalities in Brazil: Lula, the Workers´ Party, and Dilma Rousseff’s 2010 Election as President.” Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 9 (2011): 7–28.
  - French, J. D., and Antonio Luigi Negro. “Politics, Memory, and Working Class Life in the Commercial Biopic Lula, Son of Brazil.” A Contracorriente: A Journal of Social History and Literature 8 (2011): 377–94.
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  - French, John D. “Assembly lines: the national-developmentalist industrialism and unionization of workers.” Tempo Social 22, no. 1 (June 1, 2010): 277–87.
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  - French, J. D. “How the not-so-powerless prevail: Industrial labor market demand and the contours of militancy in mid-twentieth-century São Paulo, Brazil.” Hahr Hispanic American Historical Review 90, no. 1 (February 1, 2010): 109–42. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-2009-092.
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  - French, J. D. “Review of Brodwyn M. Fischer, The Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Rio de Janeiro, 1930-1964 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008).” Social History Vol.. 35 (2010): 84-86.
  - French, J. D. “Resenha: Antonio Luigi Negro, Linhas de Montagem (Sao Paulo: 2004).” Tempo Social. Revista De Sociologia Da Universidade De Sao Paulo 22 (2010): 277–87.
  - French, John D. “A Poverty of Rights: Citizenship and Inequality in Twentieth Century Rio de Janeiro.” Social History 35, no. 1 (2010): 84–86.
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  - French, J. D. “Lula, the "new unionism," and the pt: How factory workers came to change the World, or At Least Brazil.” Latin American Politics and Society 51, no. 4 (December 1, 2009): 157–69. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-2456.2009.00067.x.
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  - French, J. D., and K. Wintersteen. “Crafting an international legal regime for worker rights: Assessing the literature sincethe 1999 seattle WTO protests.” International Labor and Working Class History 75, no. 1 (August 17, 2009): 145–68. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547909000106.
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  - French, J. D. “Obama e o desafio pós-neoliberal [Obama and the Neo-Liberal Challenge].” Teoria E Debate (São Paulo), April 2009.
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  - French, J. D. “Understanding the politics of Latin America's Plural Lefts (Chávez/Lula): Social democracy, populism and convergence on the path to a post-neoliberal world.” Third World Quarterly 30, no. 2 (March 18, 2009): 349–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/01436590802681090.
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  - French, J. D. “Review of Richard Sandbrook, Marc Edelman, Patrick Heller, and Judith Teichman, Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospects (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).” Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 6 (2009): 120–22.
  - French, J. D. “Review of Richard Sandbrook, Marc Edelman, Patrick Heller, and Judith Teichman, Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospects (Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).” Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 6 (2009).
  - French, J. D. “Resenha de To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil.” Mundos Do Trabalho, 2009, 282–85.
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  - French, J. D. “Review of the documentary “Lula’s Brazil: The Management of Hope” Directed by Gonzalo Arijón (2005).” Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 6, no. 3 (2009): 120–22.
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  - French, J. D. “Resenha de O Brasil de Lula: A Gestão da Esperança, de Gonzalo Arijón.” Mundos Do Trabalho 1 (2009): 293–96.
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  - French, J. D. “Review of Richard Sandbrook, Marc Edelman, Patrick Heller, and Judith Teichman, Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospe.” Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 6, no. 3 (2009): 120–22.
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  - French, J. D., and Kristin Wintersteen. “Crafting an International Legal Regime for Worker Rights: Assessing the Literature since the 1999 Seattle WTO Protests.” International Labor and Working Class History, 2009, 1–24.
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  - French, J. D. “Obama e os limites da ousadia.” Teoria E Debate 78 (July 2008): 44–48.
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  - French, J. D., and Daniel James. “Polemics and an ‘Army of One’: Responding to John Womack Jr..” Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 5 (2008): 125–29.
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  - French, John D. “Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico: The Emergence of a New Feminist Political History.” Latin American Politics and Society 50, no. 02 (2008): 175–84. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-2456.2008.00017.x.
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  - French, J. D. “Learning the Craft: The Role of Graduate Mentoring.” Aha Perspectives 45 (November 2007).
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  - French, J. D. “Mulheres no México Pós-Revolucionario: Rumo a uma Nova História Política Feminista.” Revista Da Universidade Rural Série Ciencias Humanas E Sociais [Universidade Federal Rural De Rio De Janeiro] 29 (July 2007): 222–30.
  - French, J. D. “Review of Angus Wright and Wendy Wolford, To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil (Oakland: Food First Books, 2003).” Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 4 (2007): 141–43.
  - French, J. D. “Review of Angus Wright and Wendy Wolford, To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil.” Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 4, no. 1 (2007): 141–43.
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  - French, J. D., and Daniel James. “The Travails of Doing Labor History: The Restless Wanderings of John Womack Jr..” Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 4 (2007): 95–116.
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  - French, J. D. “Wal-Mart, Retail Supremacy, and the Relevance of Political Economy: The Intermestic Challenge of Contemporary Research (Academic, Agitational, and Constructive).” Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 4 (2006): 33–40.
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  - Fortes, Alexandre, and J. D. French. ““’Another World is Possible: The Rise of the Brazilian Workers’ Party and the Prospects for Lula’s Government”.” Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 2 (2005): 13–31.
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  - French, J. D. “The Robert J. Alexander interview collection.” Hahr Hispanic American Historical Review 84, no. 2 (May 1, 2004): 315–26. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-84-2-315.
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  - French, J. D. “Research Note: The Robert J. Alexander Interview Collection.” Hispanic American Historical Review 84 (2004): 313–24.
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  - Snodgrass, Michael D., and Michael D. French JD. “Deference and Defiance in Monterrey: Workers, Paternalism, and Revolution in Mexico.” Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, 2004.
  - French, J. D. “Translation, Diasporic Dialogue, and the Errors of Pierre Bourdieu and Loic Wacquant.” Nepantla 4 (2003): 375–89.
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  - French, J. D. “10.Michael D. Snodgrass, Deference and Defiance in Monterrey: Workers, Paternalism, and Revolution in Mexico.” Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 2, no. 1 (2003): 137–39.
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  - French, John D. “Reviews of Books:In Defense of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Brazil Sueann Caulfield.” The American Historical Review 107, no. 5 (December 2002): 1614–1614. https://doi.org/10.1086/532961.
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  - French, J. D. “From the suites to the streets: The unexpected re-emergence of the "labor question," 1994-1999.” Labor History 43, no. 3 (August 1, 2002): 285–304. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656022000001788.
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  - French, J. D. “Sharing the Riches of Afro-Brazilian History and Culture: Undergraduate and Graduate Teaching Syllabi and Handouts,” 2002.
  - French, J. D. “Editor, "Robert J. Alexander Papers: Interview Collection, 1947-1994",” 2002.
  - French, J. D. “’Brasiliana’ Breathrough: Translations as Building Blocks for a New Hemispheric Intellectual Architecture.” Lasa Forum 33 (2002): 12–13.
  - French, J. D. “Towards effective transnational labor solidarity between NAFTA north and NAFTA south.” Labor History 43, no. 4 (January 1, 2002): 451–59. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656022000030272.
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  - French, J. D. “A História latino-americana do trabalho hoje: Uma reflexão auto-crítica.” Revista De Historia, 2002, 11–28.
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  - French, J. D. “Passos em Falso da Razao Anti-imperialista: Pierre Bourdieu, Loic Wacquant, e o Orfeu e Poder de Michael Hanchard.” Estudos Afro Asiaticos [Centro De Estudos Afro Asiaticos, Universidade Candido Mendes] 24 (2002): 97–140.
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  - French, J. D. “One-Question Interview: Watching Lula.” Dialogue 17 (2002).
  - French, J. D., and Greg Grandin. “Talking Back and Talking Sense since 11 September: A 2003 LASA Congress Forum on Terrorism, Militarism, and Civil Liberties.” Lasa Forum 33 (2002): 37–37.
  - French, J. D. “Intimate Ironies: Modernity and the Making of Middle-Class Lives in Brazil.” Hispanic American Historical Review 81, no. 1 (February 1, 2001): 198–200. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-81-1-198.
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  - French, J. D. “El Auge de Los Estudios Sobre el Trabajo en Latinoamerica.” Historia Social, 2001, 129–50.
  - French, J. D. “A Procura de uma Visão Panorámica do Trabalho em América Latina durante a Época Populista.” Revista Latinoamericana De Estudios Del Trabajo 7 (2001): 213–26.
  - French, J. D. “They Don't Wear Black-Tie: Intellectuals and Workers in São Paulo, Brazil, 1958–1981.” International Labor and Working Class History 59 (January 1, 2001): 60–80.
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  - French, J. D. “Beyond the Catastrophe.” The Chronicle, 2001, 19–19.
  - French, J. D. “Beyond Words, Without Words, and Finding Words.” Dialogue 16 (2001): 7–11.
  - French, J. D. “Labour relations and the new unionism in contemporary Brazil.” International Labor and Working Class History, no. 60 (2001): 234–37.
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  - French, J. D. “As Mulheres e a Mobilização Operária na época de Pós-Guerra em São Paulo, 1945-1948.” Historia Social [Revista Da Pós Graduação Em História, Ifch Unicamp], 2000, 171–211.
  - French, J. D. “Preface for Frederico Lisbôa Romão’s Na Trama da História: O Movimento Operário de Sergipe 1871 a 1935,” 2000.
  - French, J. D. “A Origem da Intervencao Estatal nas Relacoes Industriais Brasileiras, 1930-1934: Uma Critica.” Tomo [Revista Do Nucleo De Pos Graduacao Em Ciencias Sociais Da Universidade Federal De Sergipe, 2000, 9–27.
  - French, J. D. “Latin American and International Working Class History on the Brink of the 21st Century: Points of Departure in Comparative Labor Studies.” Development and Society 29 (2000): 137–63.
  - French, J. D. “The latin American labor studies boom.” International Review of Social History 45, no. 2 (January 1, 2000): 279–308. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020859000000146.
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  - French, J. D. “The missteps of anti-imperialist reason: Bourdieu, wacquant and hanchard's orpheus and power.” Theory, Culture and Society 17, no. 1 (January 1, 2000): 107–28. https://doi.org/10.1177/02632760022051040.
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  - French, J. D., and Mary Lynn Pedersen Cluff. “As Mulheres e a Mobilizacao Operaria na epoca de Pos-Guerra em Sao Paulo, 1945-1948.” Historia Social [Revista Da Pos Graduacao Em Historia, Ifch Unicamp], 2000, 171–211.
  - French, J. D. “Preface for Na Luta por Direitos: Estudos Recentes em História Social do Trabalho.” Edited by Alexandre Fortes, Antonio Negro, and Paulo Fontes, 1999.
  - French, J. D. “Wrote biographical entry on Rochester abolitionist William C. Bloss.” American National Biography 3 (1999): 54–55.
  - French, J. D. “Drowning in Laws but Starving (for Justice?): Brazilian Labor Law and the Workers’ Quest to Realize the Imaginary.” Political Power and Social Theory 12 (1998): 177–214.
  - French, John D., and Maria Lorena Cook. “Organizing Dissent: Unions, the State, and the Democratic Teachers' Movement in Mexico..” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 51, no. 2 (January 1998): 342–342. https://doi.org/10.2307/2525235.
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  - French, J. D. “Comercio y Trabajo en el Mundo: Hacia la Cláusula Social.” Nueva Sociedad, 1997, 142–57.
  - French, J. D. “Translation: An Imperative for a Transnational World.” Duke Unc Program in Latin American Studies News, 1997, 1–5.
  - French, J. D. “New Works from the Duke-UNC Translation Series.” Duke Unc Program in Latin American Studies News, 1997, 3–3.
  - French, J. D. “Translation: An Imperative for a Transnational World.” Lasa Forum 28 (1997): 44–45.
  - French, J. D., and Daniel James. “Oral History, Identity Formation, and Working-Class Mobilization,” 1997, 297–313.
  - French, J. D., and Daniel James. “Activist Women Workers in the Trade Unions.” Latin American Labor News, 1997, 14–14.
  - French, J. D. “The labor wars in Cordoba, 1955-1976: Ideology, work, and labor politics in an Argentine industrial city - Brennan,JP.” Industrial & Labor Relations Review 49, no. 3 (April 1996): 572–74. https://doi.org/10.2307/2524218.
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  - Fink, L., and J. D. French. “The Future of the International Labour Question from the Inside Looking Out.” Labour/ Le Travail, no. 37 (March 1, 1996): 221–31.
  - French, J. D. “Sindicatos y NAFTA: Reflejos Nacionalistas y Imperativos Transnacionales.” Latin American Labor News, 1996.
  - French, J. D. “A Busca de Padrôes de Direitos Trabalhistas no Comércio Internacional.” Estudos Avançados 27 (1996): 251–68.
  - French, J. D., and Leon Fink. “The Future of the International Labor Question From the Inside Looking Out.” Labour/Le Travail, 1996, 1–11.
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  - French, John D., and Margaret Keck. “The Workers' Party and Democratization in Brazil..” Contemporary Sociology 24, no. 3 (May 1995): 340–340. https://doi.org/10.2307/2076489.
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  - French, J. D. “Reflejos Nacionalistas en el TLC.” Memoria (Mexico D.F.), 1995, 27–31.
  - French, J. D. “Expectativas de un Transnacionalismo Sindical.” Memoria (Mexico, D.F.), 1995, 26–31.
  - French, J. D. “NAFTA y la Integración Silenciosa de los Pueblos y de las Economias de Norte América.” Latin American Labor News, 1995, 5–9.
  - French, J. D. “Working women, working men: Sao Paulo and the rise of Brazil's industrial working class, 1900-1955 - Wolfe,J.” Business History Review 69, no. 2 (1995): 238–41. https://doi.org/10.2307/3117102.
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  - French, J. D., and Jefferson Cowie. “El Acuerdo Lateral Sobre Trabajo del Tratado Norteamericano de Libre Comercio: Un Análisis Textual.” Latin American Labor Occasional Paper #9, 1995.
  - French, J. D., and Russell E. Smith. “Labor, Free Trade, and Economic Integration in the Americas: A Conference Report.” Latin American Labor News, 1995, 3–4.
  - French, J. D., and Russell E. Smith. “Labor, Free Trade, and Economic Integration in the Americas: National Labor Union Responses to a Transnational World,” 1995.
  - French, J. D. “Labor and Free Trade in the Americas.” Global Perspective, 1994.
  - French, J. D., and Jefferson Cowie. “The NAFTA Labor Side Accord: A Textual Analysis.” Duke Unc Program in Latin American Studies Working Paper #11, 1994.
  - French, J. D. “Labor, Free Trade, and Economic Integration.” Global Perspective, 1993.
  - French, J. D., and Russell E. Smith. “Labor, Free Trade, and Economic Integration in the Americas: National Labor Union Responses to a Transnational World.” Lasa Forum, 1993.
  - Schneider, Ronald, and Ronald French JD. “"Order and Progress": A Political History of Brazil.” American Historical Review 97 (October 1992): 1321–22.
  - French, J. D. “Eighth Latin American Labor History Conference.” International Labor and Working Class History 41 (January 1, 1992): 76–79. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547900010553.
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  - French, J. D. “The Origin of Corporatist State Intervention in Brazilian Industrial Relations, 1930-1934: A Critique of the Literature.” Luso Brazilian Review 28 (1991): 13–26.
  - French, J. D. “Practice and Ideology: A Cautionary Note on the Historian’s Craft.” Hispanic American Historical Review 71 (1991): 847–55.
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  - French, J. D. “Commercial Footsoldiers of the Empire: Foreign Merchant Politics in Tampico, Mexico 1861-1866.” The Americas 46 (1990): 291–314.
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  - Prado, Maria Lígia Coelho, and Maria Lígia Coelho French JD. “A Democracia Illustrada (O Partido Democrático de São Paulo, 1926-1934).” Hispanic American Historical Review 69 (May 1989): 360–61.
  - French, J. D. “Fifth annual latin american labor history conference.” International Labor and Working Class History 35 (January 1, 1989): 84–88. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547900009108.
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  - French, J. D. “Industrial workers and the birth of the Populist Republic in Brazil, 1945-1946.” Latin American Perspectives 16, no. 4 (January 1, 1989): 5–27. https://doi.org/10.1177/0094582X8901600402.
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  - French, J. D., and M. L. Pedersen. “Women and working-class mobilization in postwar Sao Paulo, 1945-1948.” Latin American Research Review 24, no. 3 (January 1, 1989): 99–125.
  - French, J. D. “20.Mario Carelli, Carcamanos e Comendadores: Os Italianos de São Paulo da Realidade a Ficção, 1919- 1930.” Luso Brazilian Review 25, no. 2 (December 1988): 99–101.
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  - French, J. D. “21.June Hahner, Poverty and Politics: The Urban Poor in Brazil, 1870-1920.” Luso Brazilian Review 25, no. 1 (June 1988): 145–47.
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  - Araújo, Braz José de, and Braz José de French JD. “Operários em Luta. Metalúrgicos da Baixada Santista (1933-1983).” Hispanic American Historical Review 68 (1988): 622–24.
  - Davis, Thomas B., Amado Ricon Virulegio, and Amado Ricon French JD. “The Political Plans of Mexico.” Hispanic American Historical Review 68 (1988): 842–43.
  - French, J. D. “Fourth Latin American Labor History Conference.” International Labor and Working Class History 33 (January 1, 1988): 87–89. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547900004762.
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  - French, J. D. “Fourth Conference on Latin American Labor History.” International Labor and Working Class History, 1988, 87–89.
  - French, J. D. “Workers and the Rise of Adhemarista Populism in São Paulo, Brazil 1945-1947.” Hispanic American Historical Review 68 (1988): 1–43.
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  - French, J. D. “A Asçensão do Populismo Adhemarista em São Paulo- 1946/1947.” Idesp (Instituto De Estudos Economicos, Sociais E Políticos De São Paulo), 1987.
  - French, J. “Third Yale Conference on Latin American Labor History.” International Labor and Working Class History 32 (January 1, 1987): 80–82. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0147547900004464.
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  - Vázquez, Josefina Zoraida, Lorenzo Meyer, and Lorenzo French JD. “The United States and Mexico.” Western Historical Quarterly XVIII (January 1987): 64–65.
  - Hahner, June, and June French JD. “Poverty and Politics: The Urban Poor in Brazil, 1870-1920.” Luso Brazilian Review 25 (1986): 145–47.
  - Carelli, Mario, and Mario French JD. “Carcamanos e Comendadores: Os Italianos de São Paulo da Realidade a Ficção, 1919- 1930.” Luso Brazilian Review 25 (1985): 99–101.
  - French, J. D. “Second Yale Conference on Latin American Labor History.” International Labor and Working Class History 28 (January 1, 1985): 94–95. https://doi.org/10.1017/S014754790000884X.
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  - Blanchard, Peter. “The Origins of the Peruvian Labor Movement, 1883-1919.” International Labor and Working Class History, 1982, 137–41.
  - French, J. D. “Riqueza, poder e mão-de-obra numa economia de subsistencia: São Paulo, 1596-1625 [Wealth, Power, and Labor in a Subsistence Economy, 1596-1625].” Revista Do Arquivo Municipal (São Paulo) Ano 45 (1982): 79–107.
  - Morner, M., J. Fawaz De Vinuela, and J. D. French. “Comparative approaches to Latin American history..” Latin American Research Review 17, no. 3 (January 1, 1982): 55–89.
  - French, J. D. “’Reaping the Whirlwind:’ The Origins of the Allegheny County Greenback Labor Party in 1877.” Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine 64 (1981): 97–119.
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  - Grossi, Yonne de Souza. “Mina de Morro Velho: A Extração do Homem. Uma História de Experiência Operária.” International Labor and Working Class History, n.d., 116–20.
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- Book Sections
  - French, J. D. “Another World History Is Possible.” In Workers Across the Americas: The Transnational Turn in Labor History, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199731633.003.0001.
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  - French, J. D. “Another World History Is Possible: Reflections on the Translocal, Transnational, and Global.” In Workers Across the Americas:The Transnational Turn in Labor History, edited by Leon Fink, 3–11. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, USA, 2011.
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  - French, J. D. “Many Lefts, One Path? Chávez and Lula.” In Latin America’s Left Turns: Politics, Policies and Trajectories of Change, edited by Maxwell A. Cameron and Eric Hershberg, 41–60. Lynne Rienner, 2010.
  - French, J. D. “The Professor and the Worker: Using Brazil to Better Understand Latin America's Plural Left.” In Rethinking Intellectuals in Latin America, edited by Mabel Moraña and Bret Darin Gustafson, 91–113. Frankfurt, Germany and Madrid, Spain: Iberoamericana/Vervuert, 2010.
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  - French, J. D. “Os Trabalhos Arquivísticos Voltado ao Mundo dos Trabalhadores: Avanços e Desafios em América Latina desde 1992.” In O Mundo Dos Trabalhadores e Seus Arquivos, edited by Antonio José Marques and Inez Terezinha Stampa, 83–101. Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Brazil: Arquivo Nacional/CUT, 2009.
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  - French, J. D. “North American Free Trade Agreement.” In Encyclopedia of United States Labor and Working-Class History, edited by Eric Arnesen, 2:1011–16. New York, NY: Routledge, 2007.
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  - French, J. D. “The Laboring and Middle-Class Peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean: Historical Trajectories and New Research Directions.” In Global Labour History, edited by Jan Lucassen, 289–333. Peter Lange Pub Inc, 2006.
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  - French, J. D. “As Falsas Dicotomias entre Escravidao e Liberdade: Continuidades e Rupturas na Formaçao Política e Social do Brasil Moderno.” In Trabalho Escravo: Brasil e Europa, Séculos XVII e XIX, edited by Douglas Cole Libby and Júnia Ferreira Furtado, 75–96. Anablume, 2006.
  - French, J. D. “Proclamando Direitos, Metendo o Pau, e Lutando pelos Direitos: A Questao Social como Caso de Polícia, 1920-1964.” In Direitos e Justicas No Brasil: Ensaios de Historia Social, edited by Silvia Lara and Joseli Mendonca, 379–416. Campinas: Editora da UNICAMP, 2006.
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  - French, J. D. “Labor and NAFTA: Nationalist Reflexes and Transnational Imperatives in North America.” In Labour and Globalisation: Results and Prospects, edited by Ronaldo Munck, 149–65. Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press, 2004.
  - Munck, Ronaldo, ed. “Labour and NAFTA: Nationalist Reflexes and Transnational Imperatives in North America, 1991-1995.” In Labour and Globalisation, 149–65. Liverpool, UK: Liverpool University Press, 2004.
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  - “Trade Unionism and the Fight to Reshape the World that Trade Built: International Worker Rights in a Globalizing World, 1959-1999.” In Labour and New Social Movements in a Globalizing World System, 155–78. Linz, Austria: ITH, 2004.
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  - French, J. D. “’Not all of History is Recorded in the Books Supplied to School Children’: ’Pale History Books’ and the Hidden Afro-Diasporic Dialogue between the United States and Brazil, 1914-1966.” In Resistência e Inclusão: História, Cultura, Cidadania Afrodescendentes, edited by Denise Pini Rosalem de Fonseca, 1:19–49. Rio de Janeiro: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Consulado Geral dos Estados Unidos no Rio de Janeiro, 2003.
  - French, J. D. “'Not all of History is Recorded in the Books Supplied to School Children': 'Pale History Books' and the Hidden Afro-Diasporic Dialogue between the United States and Brazil, 1914-1966.” In Resistência e Inclusão: História, Cultura, Cidadania Afrodescendentes, edited by J. D. de Fonseca, Denise Pini Rosalem, 19–49. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Consulado Geral dos Estados Unidos no Rio de Janeiro, 2003.
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  - French, J. D. “Beyond Words, Without Words, and Finding Words: Responding to the Catastrophe.” In The Aims of Argument: A Text and Reader. Timothy W. Crusius and Carolyn E. Channell, a college textbook published by McGraw-Hill Companies, 2002.
  - French, J. D. “Latin American and International Working Class History on the Brink of the 21st Century: Points of Departure in Comparative Labor Studies.” In The Labor Movement: A Failed Project of Modernity. Linz, Austria: International Conference of Labor and Social History, 2000.
  - French, J. D. “Pensar América Latina. Entrevista de Daniel James e John French.” In Na Luta Por Direitos: Estudos Recentes Em História Social Do Trabalho, edited by Alexandre Fortes and Antonio Negro, 181–210. Campinas: UNICAMP, 1999.
  - French, J. D. “Los trabajadores industriales y el nacimiento de la República Populista en Brasil, 1945-46.” In Populismo y Neopopulismo En América Latina: El Problema de La Cenicienta, edited by María Moira Mackinnon and Mario Alberto Petrone, 59–77. Buenos Aires: Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires, 1998.
  - French, J. D. “Reflections on a Recent Exchange between Duke University and El Colegio de México.” In Integrating Higher Education in North America: From Wingspread to San Diego, edited by Norris Clement and Glen Sparrow, 29–29. San Diego: Institute for Regional Studies of the California, San Diego State University, 1998.
  - French, J. D. “Women and Working Class Mobilization in Postwar São Paulo, Brazil 1945-1948.” In The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers, 176–207, 1997.
  - French, J. D., and Daniel James. “Squaring the Circle: Women’s Factory Labor, Gender Ideology, and Necessity.” In The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers, 1–30. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.
  - French, J. D. “A Busca de Padrôes de Direitos Trabalhistas no Comércio Internacional: A "Cláusula Social".” In Processos de Integração Regional e a Sociedade: O Sindicalismo Na Argentina, Brasil, México, e Venezuela, edited by Hélio Zylberstajn and et al, 326–45. Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra, 1996.
  - French, J. D. “Dante Pellacani, Osvaldo Pacheco, and Clodsmith Rianni entries, (Volume 4: 259. 557, 338) and on the Comando Geral dos Trabalhadores (Volume 1: 446-7).” In Encyclopedia of Latin American History. New York: Charles Scribners’ Sons, 1996.
  - French, J. D. “The Declaration of Philadelphia and the Global Social Charter of the United Nations, 1944-1945.” In International Labour Standards in the Globalized Economy: Issues, Challenges, and Perspectives, edited by Werner Sengenberger and Duncan Campbell, 19–26. Geneva: International Labor Organization, 1994.
  - French, J. D. “The Populist Gamble of Getúlio Vargas in 1945: Political and Ideological Transitions in Brazil.” In Latin America in the 1940s: War and Postwar Adjustments, edited by David Rock, 141–65. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
- Other Articles
  - French, J. D. “Question and Answer on comments by Brazilian President Lula at the International Labor Organization regarding labor, the G-20, and global crisis.” Latin American Advisor [Inter American Dialogue, Washington, Dc), August 2009.
  - French, J. D. “Guest Commentary: The John Hope I Came to Know.” The Chronicle, 2009.
  - French, J. D. “Obama e os Limites da Ousadia [Obama and the Limits of Audacity].” Teoria E Debate (Sao Paulo Brazil), August 2008.
  - French, J. D. “Commentary on slave labor and Brazilian pig iron imports into the United States.” Latin American Advisor [Inter American Dialogue, Washington, D.C.], 2006.
- Reports
  - French, J. D. “Understanding the politics of Latin America's plural lefts (Chávez/Lula): Social democracy, populism, and convergence on the path to a post-neoliberal world,” December 1, 2008.
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