John D. French | Scholars@Duke

John D. French
Professor of History

I am a professor of History at Duke University with secondary appointments in African and African-American as well as International Comparative Studies 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 from UNC Press zil, Latin America, and beyond with 48 refereed articles and four books. My newest monograph is forthcoming in October 2020 under the title Lula and his Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil . My earlier books include 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 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 seven years, I have served as co-director of the Duke Brazil Initiative, the Global Brazil Humanities Lab of the Franklin Humanities Institute (2014-17), and as faculty co-director of Bass Connections Project (2015-19) on "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 and my cureent advisees are working on Brazil (2) and early modern Spain. 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 Independence." 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 Modern Latin American hisgtory while my newest offering focuses on the political and military history of the Latin American Wars of Independence. In the spring of 2020, I co-taught a course on "Black Lives Matter Brazil/USA" with Mellon visiting professor Dr. Silvio Almeida from Brazil.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2007

Contact Information

331 Classroom Bldg, Durham, NC 27708
Dept of History, Box 90719, Durham, NC 27708-0719
jdfrench@duke.edu (919) 684-3014

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Yale University 1985
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Professor of the International Comparative Studies Program, International Comparative Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2018 - 2022
- Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of History, History, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2021 - 2022
- 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
- MAY 5, 2021
  
  Brazil-USA Black Lives Matter Installation Opens at Penn Pavilion
- OCT 12, 2020 Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
  
  Students Explore Connections, Differences in Black Lives Matter, Brazil and USA
- 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
- APR 1, 2018 Revista do Arquivo [Sao Paulo]
  
  Mundos do trabalho e o mundo dos arquivos: John French fala de suas experiências nos arquivos
- JAN 1, 2018 HAHR On-line
  
  100 Years of HAHR: An Interview with John French, former senior editor
- JAN 1, 2018 Duke University Press
  
  Hispanic American Historical Reivew Celebrates 100 Years
- OCT 7, 2017 Centro de Documentação e Memória da UNESP
  
  Brasilianista destaca importância do CEDEM para história social
- 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
- MAR 1, 2016 Latin American Perspectives
  
  Podcast Interview: "Deconstructing the Post-Neoliberal State Intimate Perspectives on Contemporary 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
- JUL 1, 2013 Mosaico [Fundacao Getulio Vargas]
  
  John French: um brasilianista diferente
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., and D. James, eds. The Gendered Worlds of Latin American Women Workers: From Household and Factory to the Union Hall and Ballot Box. Durham: Duke University Press, 1997.
  - French, John D., Jefferson Cowie, Mark Healey, and Scott Littlehale, eds. Labor, Economic Integration, and Transnationalism: A Miscellaneous Bibliography. Miami: Center for Labor Research and Studies of Florida International University, 1996.
  - French, John D., Jefferson Cowie, and Scott Littlehale, eds. Labor and NAFTA: A Bibliography. Miami: Center for Labor Research and Studies of Florida International University, 1996.
  - French, J. D. O ABC dos Operários: Conflitos e Alianças de Classe em São Paulo, 1900-1950, 1995.
  - French, J. D., Jefferson Cowie, and Scott Littlehale. Labor and NAFTA: A Briefing Book. Durham: Duke-UNC Program in Latin American Studies, 1995.
  - French, John D., ed. Latin American Labor Studies Syllabi. Miami: Center for Labor Research and Studies of Florida International University, 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.
  - French, John D., ed. Latin American Labor Studies Bibliography (1992). Miami: Center for Labor Research and Studies of Florida International University, 1992.
  - French, J. D., ed. Robert Alexander: The Complete Bibliography of a Pioneering Latin Americanist. Miami: Center for Labor Research and Studies, Florida International University, 1991.
  - French, J. D., ed. Latin American Labor Studies: A Bibliography of English Publications through 1989. Miami: Center for Labor Research and Studies of Florida International University, 1989.
  - French, J. D., ed. The Microfilmed Ann and Franklin Chase Collection (A40155) of the Dallas Historical Society. Dallas: Dallas Historical Society, 1988.
- Academic Articles
  - French, J. D. “From Dictatorship to the Brazilian New Republic in Crisis: Understanding Lula's Political Leadership.” Latin American Politics and Society 64, no. 1 (February 1, 2022): 168–73. https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2021.63.
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  - French, J. D. “The future of progressive politics in a post-fordist world.” Labor: Studies in Working Class History 18, no. 3 (September 1, 2021): 69–77. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-9061479.
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  - 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, John D. ““Kill the Americans!”.” Radical History Review 2012, no. 112 (January 1, 2012): 201–8. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1416259.
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  - French, John 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. “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. “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. “Lula, the ’New Unionism,’ and the Brazilian Workers’ Party: How Workers Came to Change the World, or at Least Brazil.” Latin American Politics and Society 51 (November 2009): 157–69.
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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 (March 2009): 349–70.
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  - 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. “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. “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.” 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. “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. “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. “’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., 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. “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. “One-Question Interview: Watching Lula.” Dialogue 17 (2002).
  - French, John 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. “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. “Beyond Words, Without Words, and Finding Words.” Dialogue 16 (2001): 7–11.
  - French, J. D. “The Missteps of Anti-Imperialist Reason: Bourdieu, Wacquant, and Hanchard’s Orpheus and Power.” Theory, Culture, & Society 17 (February 2000): 107–28.
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  - 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 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., 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. “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. “Wrote biographical entry on Rochester abolitionist William C. Bloss.” American National Biography 3 (1999): 54–55.
  - 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. “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. “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. “Activist Women Workers in the Trade Unions.” Latin American Labor News, 1997, 14–14.
  - French, J. D. “Comercio y Trabajo en el Mundo: Hacia la Cláusula Social.” Nueva Sociedad, 1997, 142–57.
  - French, J. D., and Daniel James. “Oral History, Identity Formation, and Working-Class Mobilization,” 1997, 297–313.
  - 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 (January 1, 1996): 221–31. https://doi.org/10.2307/25144041.
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  - 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, 1992, 76–79.
  - 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 Latin American Labor History Conference.” International Labor and Working Class History, 1989, 84–88.
  - French, J. D. “Industrial Workers and the Birth of the Populist Republic in Brazil, 1945-1946.” Latin American Perspectives 16 (1989): 5–27.
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  - French, J. D., and Mary Lynn Pedersen. “Women and Working Class Mobilization in Postwar São Paulo, Brazil 1945-1948.” Latin American Research Review 24 (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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  - 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. “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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  - 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 Conference on Latin American Labor History.” International Labor and Working Class History, 1988, 87–89.
  - 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. D. “Third Yale Conference on Latin American Labor History.” International Labor and Working Class History, 1987, 80–82.
  - 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, 1985, 94–95.
  - French, J. D. “Mina de Morro Velho: A Extracão do Homem. Uma História de Experìencia Operaria by Yonnede Souza Grossi.” International Labor and Working Class History, no. 23 (March 1983): 116–20.
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  - 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.
  - Blanchard, Peter. “The Origins of the Peruvian Labor Movement, 1883-1919.” International Labor and Working Class History, 1982, 137–41.
  - French, J. D., Magnus Mörner, and Julia Fawaz de Viñuela. “Comparative Approaches to Latin American History.” Latin American Research Review 17 (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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- 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. “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. “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. “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. “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. “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.
  - 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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  - 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.
  - French, J. D. “Trade Unionism and the Fight to Reshape the World that Trade Built: International Worker Rights in a Globalizing World, 1959-1999.” In Arbeit, Arbeiterbewegung Und Neue Soziale Bewegungen Im Globalisierten Weltsystem, edited by Berthold Unfried, 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 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. “’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. “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.” Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, 2009.
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