
- Professor, Philosophy
- Professor, Women's and Gender Studies
Education
- PhD, Brown University
Research Interests
- Feminism
- Decolonial theory
- Philosophy of Race
- Social Epistemology
- 19th and 20th century continental philosophy
- Foucault
Courses Recently Taught
- Philosophy of Race
- Foucault, Biopower, and the Security State
- Gender and Embodiment
- New Feminist Epistemologies and Metaphysics
- Continental Epistemologies
Representative Publications
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Rape and Resistance: Understanding the Complexities of Sexual Violation Polity Press, 2018.
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“Critical Theory’s Colonial Unconscious” Berlin Journal of Critical Theory Vol. 2, No. 2, April 2018, 151-166.
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“Vallega, Dussel, and Radical Exteriority” Inter-American Journal of Philosophy. Vol. 8 (2): Fall 2017.
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“Philosophy and Philosophical Practice: Eurocentrism as an Epistemology of Ignorance,” Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice ed. Gaile Pohlhaus, Jose Medina, and Ian Kidd. New York: Routledge. 2017. PP. 397-408.
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“Decolonizing Feminist Philosophy” In Decolonizing Feminism: Transnational Feminism & Globalization ed. Margaret McLaren. Lanham MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2017. Pp. 21-36.
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The Future of Whiteness. Polity Press 2015.
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“Philosophy, the Conquest, and the Meaning of Modernity” Human Architecture, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2013, special issue guest edited by George Ciccariello-Maher and Rámon Grosfoguel.
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"An Epistemology for the Next Revolution," in Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Productions of the Luso-Hispanic World, Guest Editor: Nelson Maldonado-Torres. Vol. 1, Issue 2, 2011. 67-78.
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Real Knowing: New Versions of Coherence Epistemology (Cornell University Press, 2008 and 1996).
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Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self (Oxford University Press, 2006).
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Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy, co-editor, (Blackwell, 2006).
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Identity Politics Reconsidered, co-editor, (Palgrave/MacMillan, 2006).
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Identities: A Reader, co-editor, Blackwell, 2003).
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Singing in the Fire: Stories of Women in Philosophy, editor, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003).
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Thinking from the Underside of History: Enrique Dussel's Philosophy of Liberation, co-editor, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000).
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Epistemology, editor, (Blackwell, 1998).
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Feminist Epistemologies, co-editor, (Routledge, 1993).
