This event was presented in collaboration with the Center for the Humanities, the Department of History, the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS), and the Institute for International and Regional Studies National Resource Center (IRIS NRC) at UW-Madison.
Anthony Bogues (Ph.D., 1994, Political Theory, University of the West Indies, Mona) is a writer, scholar, curator, and the Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice; Professor of Africana Studies, Royce Professor of Teaching Excellence (2004-2007); and currently the Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Critical Theory. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the departments of Political Science, Modern Culture, and Media, History of Art and Architecture, and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Bogues’s major research and writing interests are intellectual, literary and cultural history, radical political thought, political theory, critical theory, Caribbean and African politics as well as Haitian, Caribbean, and African Art. He teaches courses on Africana political philosophy, cultural politics, intellectual history, contemporary critical theory, comparative literature of Africa and the African Diaspora, as well as courses on the history of Haitian society and art. He was a member of the 2003 Slavery and Justice steering committee and one of the authors of its final report in 2006.