The Origins and Legacies of Duvalierism" (1990), which was an important book with regards to repression and legacy in Afro-Caribbean studies. Additionally, Trouillot published "Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History" (1995), which has become a foundational text for both Haitian studies and history. Also, Trouillot was part of a distinguished international group of scholars to publish "Open the Social Sciences" (1996), which traces the history of the social sciences, describes the recent debates surrounding them, and discusses in what ways they can be intelligently restructured. Finally, "Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World" (2003), examines anthropology's historical underpinnings—its epistemic groundings and political consequences. The Caribbean Philosophical Association awarded him the 2011 Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award for "the originality of his interrogations in the human sciences, especially anthropology and history, and his articulation of the importance and challenges of Haiti in contemporary discussions of freedom and reclamations of the past".