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Robert Gooding-Williams |
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| Major Areas of Interest: | - Nietzsche; - Du Bois; - Critical Race Theory; - African-American Political Thought; - 19th Century Continental Philosophy; - Existentialism; - Philosophy and Literature. |
| Selected Publications: | - Zarathustra's Dionysian Modernism; - Look, A Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture and Politics; - Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising (edited); - The Souls of Black Folk (Bedford Books edition, co-edited w/David Blight); - "100 Years of The Souls of Black Folk" (co-edited w/Dwight McBride). |
| E-Mail: | bgoodingwilliams@uchicago.edu |
| Phone: | (773) 702-8060 |
| Office: | Pick 414 |
| Office hours: | By appt. |
Robert Gooding-Williams (Ph.D., Yale, 1982) is the Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor of Political Science and the College. He is also a Faculty Associate of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory and an affiliate of the Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture. His areas of interest include Nietzsche, Du Bois, Critical Race Theory, African-American Political Thought, 19th Century Continental Philosophy, Existentialism, and Aesthetics (especially Philosophy and L iterature). Before coming to the University of Chicago he taught at Northwestern University (1998-2005), where he was Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities (2003-2005), Adjunct Professor of African American Studies, and an affiliate of the Program in Critical Theory. Before coming to Northwestern he taught at Amherst College (1988-98), where he was Professor of Black Studies and the George Lyman Crosby 1896 Professor of Philosophy.
Gooding-Williams is the author of Zarathustra's Dionysian Modernism (Stanford, 2001) and Look, A Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture, and Politics (Routledge, 2005). He is also the editor of Reading Rodney King/Reading Urban Uprising (Routledge, 1993); co-editor (w/David Blight) of the Bedford Books edition of The Souls of Black Folk (1997); and guest co-editor (w/Dwight McBride) of "100 Years of The Souls of Black Folk," the spring 2005 issue of Public Culture that was chosen as the Runner-Up for the Best Special Issue Award in the 2005 CELJ (Council of Editors of Learned Journals) International Awards Competition.
Gooding-Williams's essay, "Race, Multiculturalism and Democracy"(Constellations, Spring 1998), was selected for publication in the Philosopher's Annual, Volume XXI, a collection comprising what the volume's editors judged to be the ten best articles to appear in a journal of philosophy in 1998. Another essay, "Du Bois's Counter-Sublime," was selected for inclusion in the Norton Critical Edition of The Souls of Black Folk. For two years Gooding-Williams was Chair of the APA (American Philosophical Association) Committee on Blacks. He has also served on the Program Committee of the APA Central Division and the Advisory Committee to the Program Committee of the APA Eastern Division. Gooding-Williams has been the recipient of numerous academic honors, including two NEH College Teachers Fellowships and a Laurance A. Rockefeller Fellowship awarded by Princeton's University Center for Human Values.
Gooding-Williams is a member of the Executive Committee of SPEP (Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) and co-editor (with Sally Haslanger, Ishani Maitra, and Ron Sundstrom) of the Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy (http://stellar.mit.edu/S/project/sgrp/) http://web.mit.edu/sgrp, a recently established web publication affording philosophers and other scholars opportunities to discuss current work on race and gender.
Gooding-Williams's current work-in-progress includes Contributions to the Critique of White Supremacy: Du Bois and Douglass as Political Philosophers, a book manuscript that is under contract to Harvard University Press.
