Jane Anna Gordon (ed.) - Creolizing Rousseau

Chiji Akma is Associate Professor of English at Villanova University. He specializes in Anglophone African and African Diaspora literatures. Author of Folklore in New World Black Fiction: Writing and the Oral Traditional Aesthetics (2007), Ako mas essays have appeared in international journals, including Oral Tradition , Research in African Literatures , and The Caribbean Writer . President of the International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (ISOLA), Akma is currently co-editing a volume of essays, provisionally titled, Beyond Text: New Directions in African Oral Performance Studies , featuring contributions by eminent scholars in the field.

Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban is Professor Emerita of Anthropology and Education at Rhode Island College, where she taught courses in Anthropology and African and Afro-American Studies. She continues to work with doctoral students. Her research subjects have covered such topics as Islamic law and Islamic society, womens social and legal status in Muslim societies, ethics and anthropological research, human rights and cultural relativism, and comparative studies in law and society. She is the author of two works on Islamic law in the Sudan (1987, 2012), Islamic Societies in Practice (1994, 2004) and Race and Racism: An Introduction (2005), and co-editor, with Janet Mancini Billson, of Female Well-Being: Towards a Global Theory of Social Change (2006) and of Race and Identity in the Nile Valley , with Kharyssa Rhodes (2004). Together with Asselin Charles, she initiated the translation of and authored the introduction to the English-language edition of Antnor Firmins The Equality of the Human Races (2000, 2004).

Jane Anna Gordon is Associate Professor of Political Science and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut and President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. She is the author of Why They Couldnt Wait: A Critique of the Black-Jewish Conflict Over Community Control in Ocean-Hill Brownsville, 19671971 (2001), which was listed by The Gotham Gazette as one of the four best books recently published on civil rights, and co-editor of A Companion to African-American Studies (2006), which was chosen as the NetLibrary eBook of the Month for February 2007, and Not Only the Masters Tools (2006). She is also coauthor of Of Divine Warning: Reading Disaster in the Modern Age (2009) and author of Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau through Fanon (2014).

Paget Henry is Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Brown University. Editor of The CLR James Journal , Henry is also an external examiner for the University of the West Indies and the University of Guyana. Henry has presented papers in North America, the Caribbean, Europe and Africa and organized several major international conferences on such topics as C. L. R. Jamess Years in the U.S. and Democracy and Development in the Caribbean. In 2003, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education recognized him as twenty-sixth of the thirty most quoted black scholars in the humanities. Henry is the co-editor (with Paul Buhle) of C. L. R. Jamess Caribbean (1992) and author of Peripheral Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Anti-gua (1985), Calibans Reason: Introducing Afro-Caribbean Philosophy (2000), which received the 2003 Frantz Fanon Award of the Caribbean Philosophical Association, and Shouldering Antigua and Barbuda: The Life of V.C. Bird (2010). He is currently completing a book tentatively entitled Further Studies in Calibans Reason: Africana Phenomenology and Political Economy .

Nelson Maldonado-Torres is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies with a joint appointment in the Program of Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. He was President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association (20082013), and serves on the board of the Frantz Fanon Foundation. He is the author of Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity (2008) and La descolonizacin y el giro descolonial (2011), and he is working on a manuscript entitled Fanonian Meditations . He is also guest editor of special issues in the web journals Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise and Transmodernity , and has published essays in the CLR James Journal , Cultural Studies and the Radical Philosophy Review , among other journals.

Charles W. Mills is John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Northwestern University. Mills works in the general area of social and political philosophy, particularly in oppositional political theory as centered on class, gender and race. He is the co-editor of Philosophy: The Big Questions (2004) and, with Robert Gooding-Williams, of a special issue of the Du Bois Review (Spring 2014), Race in a Postracial Epoch. He is the author of five books The Racial Contract (1997); Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (1998); From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism (2003); (with Carole Pateman) Contract and Domination (2007); Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality: Race, Class and Social Domination (2010)and is currently completing a sixth, Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism (forthcoming).

Alexis Nuselovici (Nouss) is professor of comparative literature at Aix-Marseille University, France, after an academic career in Canada and the UK. He is a member of several research groups in Europe and North America and director of Non-lieux de lexil, a research program hosted by the Collge dtudes mondiales, Paris. His publications include La Modernit , Paris: Presses universitaires de France, Que sais-je? series, 1995 (translated into Spanish, Romanian, Japanese, Korean); Le mtissage (with F. Laplantine), 1997 (translated into Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Turkish); Dire lvnement, est-ce possible? (with Jacques Derrida and Gad Soussana), Esthtiques series; Mtissages. De Arcimboldo Zombi (with F. Laplantine), 2001 (translated into Spanish); Plaidoyer pour un monde mtis , 2005; and Paul Celan. Les lieux dun dplacement , 2010. He is also a translator, and has written several opera libretti.

Mickaella L. Perina is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and the Director of the Philosophy and Law Program at the University of MassachusettsBoston. Her areas of research include political and legal philosophy, French political philosophy, Caribbean philosophy and philosophy of race. She is the author of a book Citoyennet et sujtion aux Antilles francophones, post-esclavage et aspiration dmocratique (Citizenship and subjection in the Fran-cophone Antilles, post-slavery and democratic demand, 1997), and of several articles on political identity and political membership, citizenship, rights, migrations and ethics of exclusion.

Nalini Persram is Associate Professor of Social Science at York University in Toronto, Canada. She previously taught at the University of Dublin, Ireland, and University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. She is editor of Postcolonialism and Political Theory (2007) and co-editor with Jenny Edkins and Vronique Pin-Fat of Sovereignty and Subjectivity (1999). She is also author of several articles and book chapters that explore central themes within the areas of critical theory, postcoloniality, feminism, Caribbean culture and resistance, and international political theory. She is currently completing a book on Guyanese nationalist discourse.

Neil Roberts is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Faculty Affiliate in Political Science at Williams College. His work has appeared in Caribbean Studies , the CLR James Journal , Encyclopedia of Political Theory , Journal of Haitian Studies , New Political Science , Patterns of Prejudice , Perspectives on Politics , Philosophia Africana , Philosophy in Review , Political Theory , Sartre Studies International , Shibboleths , Small Axe and Souls . Guest editor of a Theory & Event special issue on the Trayvon Martin case and co-editor of CAS Working Papers in Africana Studies , he is author of the recent book, Freedom as Marronage . Roberts is currently completing the volume A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass .