Dwight Lewis, a Doctoral Candidate at the University of South Florida (Tampa, FL), works 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, and early modern philosophy generally construed. He will defend his dissertation, Amo's Philosophy and Reception: from the Origins through the Encyclopédie, in the Spring of 2019. He will spend the next academic year (2018-19) as a Mellon Research Fellow at Emory University in The James Weldon Johnson Institute.

My Thesis Project: Diversity and the concept of race are,…

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