Nkiru Nzegwu
SUNY Distinguished Prof; Nelson Mandela Visiting Prof, Rhodes Univ, South Africa, Prof Extraordinarius, Univ of South Africa
Africana Studies
Background
Professor Extraordinarius, University of South Africa, UNISA, School of Transdisciplinary Research and Graduate Studies.
Member, SUNY Distinguished Academy Board
Member, 2020-2021 University-wide Advisory Council on Distinguished Professorships
Education
- PhD, University of Ottawa
- MA, BA (Hons), University of Ife
Research Interests
- Feminist philosophy
- African philosophy
- African women studies
- African and African Diaspora art and aesthetics
Teaching Interests
- Artificial Intelligence and Racism
- Race, Philosophy & the Law
- African Intellectual Traditions
- African Art and Aesthetics
- African Women and Feminism
Awards
- Residency Award, Office of the Principal and Vice Chancellor of Queen鈥檚 University, Canada
- Senior Humanities Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles
- Senior Research Grant, The Getty
- Society for The Humanities, Fellowship, Cornell University
- Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellowship
More Info
Africa Knowledge Project
Founder of an educational Internet initiative publishing and distribution platform of five academic, peer reviewed, indexed, journals and an archive devoted to the study of global Africa.
Books
Editor, Onitsha at the Millennium: Legacy, History and Transformation. Endicott, NY: Africa Resource Press, 2013.
Editor, His Majesty Nnaemeka Alfred Ugochukwu Achebe: A Ten-Year Milestone. Endicott, NY: Africa Resource Press, 2013.
Co-Editor (with Isidore Okpewho), The New African Diaspora. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009.
Family Matters: Feminist Concepts in African Philosophy of Culture. Albany, NY: SUNY Press 2006.
Selected Publications
鈥溼粚k峄 Extenders: Women, Sacrality, and Transformative Art,鈥 Polylog: Journal for Intercultural Philosophy, accepted, forthcoming August 2020.
鈥淭emporality, Or铆k矛 and Nigeria鈥檚 Contemporary Art.鈥 In Aesthetic Temporalities Today: Present, Presentness, Presentation. Ed. Gabrielle Genge and Angela Stercken. Transcript Verlag and Columbia University Press, 2020, 87-100.
鈥淭o Chair or Not to Chair: Liberal Racism in the Hallowed Halls of Academia,鈥 JENdA: A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies, forthcoming Spring 2020. [In press]
鈥淥mumu, Disassembling Subordination, & Reasserting Endogenous Powers,鈥 International Journal of African Renaissance Studies, forthcoming Spring 2020: 1-18.
鈥淒e-Racing Aesthetics: African Art in Deep Time,鈥 Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, (JAAC), Race and Aesthetics 77, 4, 2019: 367-378.
鈥溾榃hen the Paradigm Shifts, Africa Appears:鈥 Reconceptualizing Yoruba Art in Space and Time,鈥 Journal of Art Historiography, Number 18 June 2018: 1-29.
Symposium: Lead Author. 鈥淗ow (If At All) Is Gender Relevant to Philosophy,鈥 Journal of World Philosophies 1, 1, 2016: 75-118; https://scholarworks.iu.edu/iupjournals/index.php/...
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