Anthony Bogues
Professor of Africana Studies:
Africana Studies
Phone: +1 401 863 1782
Barrymore_Bogues@Brown.EDU
My main research interests are interdisciplinary as i focus on questions rather than a specific disciplinary field of study I am currently working on the following projects:
1. A book which seeks to think through the question : And What about the Human? I seek to answer this question through an examination of 20th century critical theory and radical anti-colonial thought .
2. A interdisciplinary book project on 20th century Caribbean Intellectual History.
3. A book project which reviews the conceptions and practices of freedom which emerged in the dual Haitian Revolution , the Civil Rights Movement in the US and the Struggles for freedom in Southern Africa.
Biography
Anthony Bogues (Ph.D., 1994, Political Theory, University of the West Indies, Mona) is Professor of Africana Studies, Royce Professor of Teaching Excellence( 2004-2007); and Harmon Family Professor He is also an affiliated faculty member of the departments of Political Science and Modern Culture and Media and a faculty associate at the Watson Institute for International Affairs. He is an affiliated faculty with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Bogues's major research and writing interests are intellectual. literary and cultural history, radical political thought, political theory , 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, Freedom and Desire ( 2009 ); Caribbean Intellectual History : History , Intellectuals and Politics( spring 2010 ) He is the editor of two volumes on Caribbean intellectual and literary history and has published numerous essays and articles on the history of criticism, critical theory, political thought, political philosophy , 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 a member of the editoral collective for the journal boundary 2. He is an honorary professor at the Center for African Studies , the University of Cape Town , South Africa. He teaches courses on Africana political philosophy, cultural politics, intellectual history and contemporary critical theory and comparative literatures of Africa and the African Diaspora.
Interests
Current research focuses on the following areas:
I continue to think about the nature of power in the modern world and the ways in which power creates subjectivities. I have an abiding interest in how human beings become subjects and from an historical perspective how human beings were made into " natives " in the colonial world. This research has lead me into a project in which i am thinking about ways of life and human practices . In particular
i am thinking about the relationship between forms of utopia, ways of life, and the political and the construction of the figure of the human . In this project i also turn my gaze from power to how human beings construct alternative spaces for themselves and in what ways can we say a tradition exist for these constructions . My third project involves working with colleagues from the University of the West Indies and the Center of African Studies at the University of Cape Town. Here I am engaged in a project that seeks to think about the configuration of the field of African and African Diaspora studies.
I am also working on an alternative intellectual history of freedom in modernity. This project involves probing the conceptions and various meanings of freedom that emerged at three historic moments : The Haitian Revolution ; The Civil Rights Movement and the Southern African Liberation movements .
Degrees
Ph.D., 1994, Political Theory, University of the West Indies, Mona
Awards
Faculty Fellow , Cogut Humanities Center , Spring 2010 .
Harmon Family Professor( 2007- present time. )
Honorary Professor , University of Cape Town.( 2007-present time )
Brown University Presidential Citation for Scholarship and Teaching, (2005)
Distinguished Fellow, Center for African Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, (2006)
Royce Family Professorship in Teaching Excellence, Brown University, (2004-2007)
Rhode Island Council for the Humanities for a project on African-American social theatre, (2005)
Distinguished Writer Award for non-fiction, Middle Atlantic Writers Association (MAWA), (2003)
Affiliations
American Philosophical Association
International Intellectual History Association
Caribbean Studies Association
Center for Caribbean Thought
Caribbean Social History Project
Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London
Funded Research
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