Dwight K Lewis Jr - an assistant professor of philosophy and the Stephen R. Setterberg, M.D., Faculty Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Minnesota TC - received his PhD from the University of South Florida (Tampa, FL), working under Roger Ariew and Justin EH Smith in the History of Philosophy. His research focuses on concepts of human difference (e.g., race, gender, and sexuality), underrepresented philosophers, early modern philosophy generally construed, Africana Philosophy, and philosophy of race. He defended his dissertation, "Amo's Philosophy and Reception: from the Origins through the Encyclopédie", in 2019. During the final year…
Read moreDwight K Lewis Jr - an assistant professor of philosophy and the Stephen R. Setterberg, M.D., Faculty Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Minnesota TC - received his PhD from the University of South Florida (Tampa, FL), working under Roger Ariew and Justin EH Smith in the History of Philosophy. His research focuses on concepts of human difference (e.g., race, gender, and sexuality), underrepresented philosophers, early modern philosophy generally construed, Africana Philosophy, and philosophy of race. He defended his dissertation, "Amo's Philosophy and Reception: from the Origins through the Encyclopédie", in 2019. During the final year of his dissertation project, he spent the academic year (2018-19) as a Mellon Research Fellow at Emory University in The James Weldon Johnson Institute. Following that year, he was a Mellon Postdoc Fellow in the Philosophy Department at Penn State University.
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My Podcast with Matt LaVine entitled "Larger, Freer, More Loving": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr8kPHS2eocmqvdLmMsh1ZA
My Interview on Smithsonian's “1000 Years of Slavery” (episode 2) produced by Angela Bassett and Courtney Vance: https://www.smithsonianchannel.com/shows/one-thousand-years-of-slavery
My Interview on Amazon's Audible titled "In Search of Black History" (episode 5) with Bonnie Greer: https://www.audible.com/pd/Ep-5-The-Darkness-of-the-Enlightenment-Podcast/B08DC9B7HP?ref=a_pd_In-Sea_c0_lAsin_0_4&pf_rd_p=1da7ab30-c785-4a0e-a160-4a7e7077b353&pf_rd_r=R6CFNSC00EK2PGJYCSYN
My interview on Martin Luther King Jr with 'News 13: Spectrum News": https://www.mynews13.com/fl/orlando/news/2021/01/19/dr--martin-luther-king-jr--s-legacy?cid=share_clip&wdLOR=cB2D1B7BE-8B3D-7D4F-9ED9-7A33AD3C512E
My interview with Eidolon on “The First African to Have Attended a European University” by Yung In Chae: https://eidolon.pub/the-first-african-to-have-attended-a-european-university-b4ef9b7f8c8a