Dr. Aaron Kamugisha BSc, MPhil (UWI), PhD (York), Postdoctoral Fellow (Northwestern) Lecturer in Cultural Studies Room: Office 2 Tel.: (246) 417-4183; Fax: (246) 424-0634 E-mail: aaron.kamugisha (at) cavehill.uwi.edu
Biography: Aaron Kamugisha is a Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. He completed 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 current work is a study of coloniality, cultural citizenship and freedom in the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean, mediated through the social and political thought of C.L.R. James and Sylvia Wynter. He is most recently the editor of a special issue of Race & Class “Caribbean Trajectories: 200 Years On” (October 2007), and has published in the Journal of Caribbean History, Race & Class, Proudflesh, Small Axe and The Philosophical Forum. He is currently the Book Reviews Editor and a member of the editorial working committee for the journal Social and Economic Studies.
Current Research Interests: Anti-colonial thought, Caribbean radicalism, Caribbean cultural studies, the coloniality of citizenship in the contemporary Anglophone Caribbean, the Caribbean neoliberal state, Africana thought, black cultural studies.
Select Publications: Edited collections with Alissa Trotz eds., “Caribbean Trajectories: 200 Years On.” Special Issue of Race & Class 49, 2 (2007) (130 pages, 15 contributors) http://www.irr.org.uk/2007/october/ak000011.html Articles “The Hearts of Men? Gender in the Late C.L.R. James,” Small Axe 34 (2011): 76-94 “C.L.R. James: 20th Century Literary Journeys,” in The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature edited by Alison Donnell and Michael Bucknor (Routledge, 2011) “Austin Clarke’s Barbadian Coloniality: Language, Humour and Violence in a Caribbean Colony.” Introduction to the re-publication of Austin Clarke, Amongst Thistles and Thorns (Leeds, UK: Peepal Tree Press, 2010), 7-21. "The Coloniality of Citizenship in the Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean," Race & Class 49, 2 (2007): 20-40 "Orientalism, Western Republicanism and the Ancient polis: Patricia Springborg's Western Republicanism and the Oriental Prince and the Canon of Political Thought," The Philosophical Forum 38, 2 (2007): 173-98 "Reading Edward Said and Sylvia Wynter on Liberation and the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition." In After Man, Towards the Human: Critical Essays on Sylvia Wynter edited by Anthony Bogues (Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Press, 2006): 131-56 "Finally in Africa? Egypt, from Diop to Celenko," Race & Class 45, 1 (2003): 31-60
Media Writing: “The Life and Death of a Nation.” Stabroeck News (Guyana), 23 August 2010. [http://www.stabroeknews.com/2010/features/08/23/in-the-diasporathe-life-and-death-of-a-nation/] “Caribbean men’s relationship to Caribbean feminist practice, or the hearts of men.” Stabroeck News (Guyana), 26, June 2009. UNIFEM media series on gender in the Caribbean. [http://www.stabroeknews.com/2009/features/06/23/caribbean-men%E2%80%99s-relationship-to-caribbean-feminist-practice-or-the-hearts-of-men/#comments] “Homophobia and the Caribbean State.” Stabroeck News (Guyana), 14, July 2008 [http://www.stabroeknews.com/features/in-the-diaspora-28/]
Courses taught at The University of the West Indies: Cultural Studies Undergraduate CLTR2500 Introduction to Caribbean Cultural Studies CLTR3100 Theorizing Caribbean Culture CLTR3000 Race, Nationalism and Culture CLTR3103 Black Popular Culture Graduate CLTR6100 Methods of Inquiry in Cultural Studies CLTR6230 Caribbean Creative and Popular Culture CLTR6270 Under Western Eyes Revisited: Challenging Cultural Hegemony in Caribbean Gender Relations Political Science Undergraduate GOVT 2016 Caribbean Political Philosophy GOVT 2014 Western Political Thought GOVT 2015 Modern Political Thought GOVT 3000 African Political Philosophy

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