Darryl Barthé

Barthé was awarded his undergraduate and Masters' degrees in history from the University of New Orleans, studying under Michael Mizel-Nelson, Mary Niall Mitchell, and Arnold Hirsch. He earned his PhD in history from the University of Sussex in Brighton, England where he studied under Richard Follett. While at Sussex, Barthé taught American politics and wrote his doctoral dissertation which served as the basis for his first monograph, Becoming American in Creole New Orleans, 1896-1949 (Louisiana State University Press, 2021).  

He moved to the Netherlands in 2016 where he taught at the universities of Amsterdam and Leiden between 2016 and 2018. While in Amsterdam, Barthé served as a consultant for the Woorden Doen Ertoe/Words Matter project at the Rijksmuseum, and for the Dutch public broadcasting program Andere Tijden. With colleagues from Leiden, Barthe cofounded Over de Muur (http://www.overdemuur.org), an online Dutch language public history journal which was awarded the 2018 valorization award from the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies. 

Barthé has published in the fields of critical race theory, historical criminology, and contemporary continental philosophy. In February of 2022, Barthé published a co-edited volume with colleagues from the University of Calgary and the University of California San Diego, Louisiana Creole Peoplehood: Afro-Indigeneity and Community (University of Washington Press, 2022).