Don Thomas Deere is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Texas A&M University. He previously taught at Wesleyan University and received his PhD with distinction from DePaul University and BA from Cornell University. He is a Mellon Mays fellow and the recipient of a Mellon Career Enhancement Faculty Fellowship. His research focuses on the intersections of Latin American, Caribbean, and Contemporary Continental Philosophy. His book, The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space, was published with Duke University Press in 2025 and he is the co-translator of Santiago Castro-Gómez’s Zero-Point Hubris: Science, Race, and Enlig…
Don Thomas Deere is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Texas A&M University. He previously taught at Wesleyan University and received his PhD with distinction from DePaul University and BA from Cornell University. He is a Mellon Mays fellow and the recipient of a Mellon Career Enhancement Faculty Fellowship. His research focuses on the intersections of Latin American, Caribbean, and Contemporary Continental Philosophy. His book, The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space, was published with Duke University Press in 2025 and he is the co-translator of Santiago Castro-Gómez’s Zero-Point Hubris: Science, Race, and Enlightenment in 18th-Century Latin America, published with Rowman & Littlefield International in 2021. His articles and book chapters have been featured in venues such as Inter-American Journal of Philosophy, Journal of World Philosophies, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Latin American Perspectives, Decolonizing Ethics, The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon, and The Foucauldian Mind.
