Brown University
Department of Africana Studies

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Anthony Bogues

Anthony Bogues, Chair
Africana Studies

Anthony Bogues (Ph.D., 1994, Political Theory, University of the West Indies, Mona) is Professor of Africana Studies, Royce Professor of Teaching Excellence and the current  chair of the department. Bogues‘s major research and writing interests are intellectual and cultural history, radical political thought and critical theory as well as Caribbean and African politics.  He is the author of Caliban’s Freedom: The Early Political Thought of C.L.R. James (1997); Black Heretics and Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals (2003) Empire of Liberty: Power. Imperial Freedom and Desire (Forthcoming) He is also the editor of two volumes on Caribbean intellectual history and has published numerous essays and articles on the history of criticism and critical theory, political thought, political philosophy and intellectual and cultural history.  Bogues is an associate director of the Center for Caribbean Thought, University of the West Indies, Mona; an associate editor of the journal Small Axe and an advisory editor for the journal boundary 2.  He teaches courses on Africana political philosophy, cultural politics and intellectual history.

 

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