Lewis R. Gordon is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs; Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies; Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg; Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Fort Hare University; and Distinguished Scholar at The Most Honourable PJ Patterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy at The University of the West Indies, Mona. He co-edits the journal Philosophy and Global Affairs, the Rowman & Littlefield book series Global Critical Caribbean Thought, and the Routledge-India book series Academics, Politics and Society in the…
Lewis R. Gordon is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy at UCONN-Storrs; Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies; Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Johannesburg; Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at Fort Hare University; and Distinguished Scholar at The Most Honourable PJ Patterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy at The University of the West Indies, Mona. He co-edits the journal Philosophy and Global Affairs, the Rowman & Littlefield book series Global Critical Caribbean Thought, and the Routledge-India book series Academics, Politics and Society in the Post-Covid World. He is the author of many books, including, most recently, Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization (Routledge, 2021) and Fear of Black Consciousness (hardcover, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022; in the UK, London: Penguin Books, 2022), Picador paperback 2023, and as a Macmillan Audiobook (read by Landon Woodson and Lewis R. Gordon); with German translation, Angst vor Schwarzem Bewusstsein (Berlin: Ullstein Verlag, 2022); Portuguese translations Medo da Consciência Negra (Lisbon: Penguin-Portugal, 2022) and Brazilian Portuguese translation, Medo da Consciência Negra (São Paulo: Todavia, 2023). He is the 2022 recipient of the Eminent Scholar Award from the Global Development Studies division of the International Studies Association. In 2023, Bloomsbury published Black Existentialism and Decolonizing Knowledge Writings of Lewis R. Gordon, a reader of some of his most important writings, edited by Rozena Maart and Sayan Day.
