Philippe Zacair, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Department of History

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Teaching interests: Colonial Latin America; Gender, Race and Ethnicity in Latin America; Contemporary Cuba; Haiti and the French Caribbean; World History.

Research interests: Nineteenth century Caribbean nationalist movements, Intra-Caribbean migrations, Caribbean transnationalism, Haitian diaspora.

Brief biography: Philippe Zacaïr was born and raised in Guadeloupe, in the eastern Caribbean. He received his Ph.D. in history in 1999 from the University of Paris-Sorbonne Nouvelle in France. He has published in Cahiers du Monde Hispanique et Luso-Brésilien, Caribbean Studies, The Journal of Caribbean History and French Colonial History. Since his appointment at Cal State Fullerton in the Fall of 2002, he has taught classes on colonial and modern Latin American and Caribbean history.