The Experts
For its first edition in 2022, which is devoted to African and Africana Social and Political Philosophy, NEWLAMP will be lead by 3 experts:
Chike Jeffers
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Canadian Studies at Dalhousie University
Denise James
Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Women's and Gender Studies Program at University of Dayton
Lucius Outlaw, Jr.
W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University
Chike Jeffers
Chike Jeffers is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia). He specializes in Africana philosophy and philosophy of race, with broad interests in social and political philosophy. He is one of the authors of What is Race? Four Philosophical Views (Oxford University Press, 2019), along with Joshua Glasgow, Sally Haslanger, and Quayshawn Spencer. He is currently working on an introduction to the philosophical thought of W.E.B. Du Bois.
Denise James
V. Denise James, Ph. D. is associate professor of philosophy and the Associate Dean for Assessment and Program Review at the University of Dayton, where she previously served as the Director of Women’s and Gender Studies. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Emory University in Atlanta, GA, after completing her B.A. from Spelman College. She was the recipient of the UD College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teaching Award (2015) and Outstanding Service Award (2017). A writer, painter, and textile artist, her work features the interplay of the politics of geography, identity, and social justice. She has published essays about the intersections of classical American pragmatism and black feminism, articles about street violence against young women and girls, radical social justice, and the philosophical significance of U.S. black feminist thinkers. She is at work on a book about the life and contemporary significance of Audre Lorde.
Lucius Outlaw, Jr.
Lucius Turner Outlaw (Jr.), the author of On Race and Philosophy (Routledge 1996) and Critical Social Theory in the Interest of Black Folks (Roman and Littlefield 2005) and other writings, is a W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies, and Professor of Human and Organizational Development (Peabody College) at Vanderbilt University. He was recognized as the Joseph A. Johnson, Jr. Distinguished Leadership Professor for 2020-2021. Outlaw was the T. Wistar Brown Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, before joining the Vanderbilt faculty in 2000. Outlaw teaches, researches, and writes about race and ethnicity, American Philosophy, Africana Philosophy, Critical Social Theory, Social and Political Philosophy, and the history of Philosophy in the “West.” Born in Starkville, Mississippi, he is a graduate of Fisk University (BA, 1967) and of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Boston College (Ph.D., Philosophy, 1972).