Dr. Aaron Kamugisha
Post-doctoral fellow in African-American Studies Address: African American Studies Department 2-320 Kresge Hall 1880 S. Campus Dr. Evanston, IL 60208-2209 Phone: 847-467-0751 Fax: 847-491-4803 Email: kamugisha@northwestern.edu

Courses:

AFAM 245 The Black Diaspora and Transnationality (Fall)

AFAM 360 Major Authors: Frantz Fanon (Fall)

Degrees:

Ph.D. Social and Political Thought, York University (2006)

M.Phil., University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus (2002)

B.Sc., University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus (1997)

Current Research:

Anti-colonial thought, Caribbean radicalism, the coloniality of citizenship in the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean, the Caribbean neoliberal state, Africana thought, Caribbean cultural studies, black cultural studies

Recent Awards:

Postdoctoral fellow, Department of African-American Studies, Northwestern University, 2007-8

Recent Publications:

with Alissa Trot eds., "Caribbean Trajectories: 200 Years On." Special Issue of Race & Class 49, 2 (2007)

"The Coloniality of Citizenship in the Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean," Race & Class 49, 2 (2007): 20-40

"Orientalism, Western Republicanism and the Ancient polis: Patricia Springborg's Western Republicanism and the Oriental Prince and the Canon of Political Thought," The Philosophical Forum 38, 2 (2007): 173-98

"Reading Edward Said and Sylvia Wynter on Liberation and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition." In After Man, Towards the Human: Critical Essays on Sylvia Wynter edited by Anthony Bogues (Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Press, 2006): 131-56

"Finally in Africa? Egypt, from Diop to Celenko," Race & Class 45, 1 (2003): 31-60