Professor D.A. Masolo

Dr. D.A. Masolo is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, and also Justus Bier Distinguished Professor of Humanities at the same university. He previously taught Philosophy at Antioch College, Northwestern University, and the University of Nairobi (Kenya).

Professor Masolo is a member of the series editorial board (African Expressive Culture), Indiana University Press; President of the Society of African Philosophy in North America (SAPINA); a member of the Editorial Board, The International Journal of African Studies; a member of the Research Committee, Political Philosophy, International Political Science Association; an Associate Editor, Quest: International African Journal of Philosophy; was an Associate Editor of African Philosophy; and Assistant Treasurer, Philosophical Association of Kenya (PAK).

Professor Masolo is author of African Philosophy in Search of Identity (1994), Christian Religious Education (1990), You and Your Society, Book II (1988), You and Your Society, Book I (1987). He is co-editor of African Philosophy as Cultural Inquiry (2000), Philosophy and Cultures (1983). He is currently working on the following titles: (i) Philosophy and Pluralism: Recent Debates and Perspectives, (ii) Living as a Christian, Dying as a Luo, (iii) Self and Agency: The Concept of the Person in an African Culture. Professor Masolo has over fifty published articles in various refereed international journals, and has just completed papers which are forthcoming in Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Dictionary of the History of Ideas, and Encyclopedia of African Religions and Philosophy.