Dr. Georges Eugene Fouron
Distinguished Professor

Phone Number: (631) 632-6924

Email: Georges.Fouron@stonybrook.edu

Office: SBS S-657

Dr. Georges Eugene Fouron,  Professor of Africana Studies at Stony Brook University, is a seasoned educator with a career spanning more than four decades, having begun as a primary school teacher in 1979 and joining SBU in 1985. Described as an inspiring, wise, and warm mentor, Dr. Fouron is known as a “teachers’ teacher,” modeling by his own compelling example of best practices and sound principles in education. He contributed to Stony Brook’s Conceptual Framework, the campus’s vision for its Transdisciplinary Teacher Education program. As a teacher, Dr. Fouron speaks powerfully to the complexities of racial politics, calling attention to the Haitian diaspora and issues of transnationalism. His coauthored 2001 book, Georges Woke Up Laughing: Long-Distance Nationalism & the Search for Home has made a significant and lasting contribution to understanding the Haitian American experience in both Haitian studies and in the wider fields of sociology and anthropology. That work offers a fundamentally new theory of identity--transmigrant, for those people whose origins are rooted in a place different from the place of their living--and offers potent analyses of the imperialistic effects of global capitalism on micro-nations. In 2012, he edited a collection of essays on critical pedagogy, and his 2014 Footsteps of Migration: Caribbean Immigrants and US Taxonomy is required reading for many sociology programs. In 2016, he received both the College of Arts and Sciences Godfrey Prize for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence, and the John Toll Prize in Undergraduate Education. In 2020, he was named Stony Brook Athletics’ “Most Valuable Professor,” followed in 2021 by the student-selected COVID-Hero Teaching Award by the Center of Excellence in Learning and Teaching.