Bio

Aaron Kamugisha isProfessor of Cultural Studies at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. He did his PhD Social and Political Thought at York University in Toronto, and was the 2007/8 Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of African-American Studies at Northwestern University. His latest book, Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Freedom was published by Indiana University Press with a simultaneous edition by University of Witwatersrand Press in March 2019. He is the editor of five edited collections on Caribbean and Africana thought, including Caribbean Political Thought: The Colonial State to Caribbean Internationalisms (2013), Caribbean Political Thought: Theories of the Post-Colonial State (2013), (with Yanique Hume) Caribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to Diaspora (2013), Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance (2016), and (along with 14 other editors) The Routledge Reader in African American Rhetoric: The Long Duree of Black Voices (2018). 

Qualifications

PhD Social and Political Thought (York)

Research Areas

My primary intellectual and research interests encompass the intellectual history and the social, political and cultural thought of the African Diaspora. In addition to my published books, I have edited special issues of four journals: (with Alissa Trotz) a special issue of Race & Class (October 2007) “Caribbean Trajectories: 200 Years On” to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the British abolishment of the slave trade, (with Peter Hudson) The C.L.R. James Journal special issue on Black Canadian Thought (Fall 2014), Small Axe 49 (March 2016) on Sylvia Wynter’s Black Metamorphosis, and (with Jane Gordon, Lewis Gordon and Neil Roberts) The Antigua and Barbuda Review of Books (Summer 2017), a volume in honour of the leading scholar in the field of Caribbean philosophy, Paget Henry. I am a member of the editorial working committee/collectives for the journals Social and Economic Studies, Journal of West Indian Literature, and Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism. 

Teaching Areas

Areas of specialization  
Africana intellectual history, Black critical theory, Black social and political thought, Caribbean cultural Studies, Caribbean social, political and cultural thought, Black popular culture, Cultural studies

Areas of competence  
Western political theory, Caribbean literature, African diaspora feminisms 

Select Publications

Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition (Indiana University Press, March 2019), published simultaneously by University of Witwatersrand Press, South Africa. 

Editor with Yanique Hume, Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance (Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Press, April 2016) 

Editor of a special issue of Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 49 (March 2016) on Sylvia Wynter’s Black Metamorphosis: New Natives in a New World. [http://smallaxe.net/49] 

Editor, Caribbean Political Thought: The Colonial State to Caribbean Internationalisms (Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Press, 2013) and Caribbean Political Thought: Theories of the Post-Colonial State (Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Press, 2013).  

Editor with Yanique Hume, Caribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to Diaspora (Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Press, 2013).  

Editor with Alissa Trotz of a special issue of the journal Race & Class (October 2007) “Caribbean Trajectories: 200 Years On.” http://www.irr.org.uk/2007/october/ak000011.html 

Keywords

Africana thought, Caribbean thought, Caribbean Popular culture, Black Popular Culture, Africana Philosophy, Africana social and political thought