He is author of the award-winning Freedom as Marronage and the collaborative work Journeys in Caribbean Thought. Roberts has authored numerous published and forthcoming articles, reviews and book chapters, and is co-editor of both the CAS Working Papers Series in Africana Studies (with Ben Vinson III) and a collection of essays (with Jane Anna Gordon) entitled Creolizing Rousseau. He is also guest-editor of a Theory & Event symposium on the Trayvon Martin case. Roberts has received fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, and is a member of the Caribbean Philosophical Association Board of Directors. He is presently completing A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass for the University Press of Kentucky.