Franklin W. Knight (born 1942) is a Jamaican historian of Latin America and the Caribbean. He is anemeritus professor atJohns Hopkins University, where he was the Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Professor of History from 1993 to 2014 and director of the Centre for Africana Studies.^[1] He was awarded a GoldMusgrave Medal for literature in 2013.^[2]

He joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University in 1973 and in 1978 became the first black faculty member at the university to gainacademic tenure.^[3] Prior to joining the faculty at Johns Hopkins, Knight was assistant professor of history atStony Brook University.

Knight was born in the parish ofManchester,Jamaica, and attendedCalabar High School inKingston. He gained his degree in history from theUniversity of the West Indies, Mona in 1964 and his PhD from theUniversity of Wisconsin–Madison.^[1] From 1998 to 2000, he served as the President of theLatin American Studies Association.^[3] In 2007, Knight was awarded anhonorary doctorate from his alma mater, the University of the West Indies.^[4]

• Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro–Latin American Biography, co-edited withHenry Louis Gates Jr (Oxford University Press, 2016)
• Contemporary Caribbean Cultures and Societies in a Global Context, co-edited with Teresita Martinez-Vergne (2005).
• Las Casas: An Introduction, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies (Hackett, 2003)
• The Slave Societies of the Caribbean (Macmillan, 1997)
• The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism (Oxford, 1978; 2nd edition, revised 1990)
• The Modern Caribbean, co-edited withColin A. Palmer
• The Modern Caribbean, co-edited with Colin A. Palmer (University of North Carolina Press, 1989)
• Africa and the Caribbean: Legacies of a Link, co-edited with Margaret Crahan (Johns Hopkins, 1979)
• The Caribbean: The Genesis of a Fragmented Nationalism (Oxford, 1978; 2nd edition, revised 1990, 3rd edition revised, 2012)
• The African Dimension of Latin American Societies (Macmillan, 1974)
• Slave Society in Cuba during the Nineteenth Century (Wisconsin, 1970)

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