Executive Officers

Jacqueline (Jackie) Martinez (they/she/he) is Professor of Communication at Arizona State University, and affiliate faculty with the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, and the School of Social Transformation. Jackie specializes in Latinx feminist and queer of color theorizing through deployments of semiotics and phenomenology. This work features communication as the mediator of relationships among personal experience, social practices, and cultural histories. Jackie studies embodiment as that which enables the actualization of meaning in the immediate and concrete experiences of persons located in particular times and places, especially as expressions of humanity asserted against the dehumanization sustained by systems of coloniality. Jackie is the author of Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity: Communication and Transformation in Praxis, and Communicative Sexualities: A Communicology of Sexual Experience. Jackie is currently working on a book co-authored with Lisa Anderson entitled Black and Latina Queer and Trans Creolization. Jackie is a lifelong teacher and student of traditional Japanese Karate-do.

Vialcary Crisóstomo Tejada is an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Rochester. She received her Ph.D. in Latin American and Caribbean Literature and Cultures from the University of Connecticut. Her areas of specialization include Afro-Caribbean Studies, Latinx Studies, Latin American Literature, Decolonial Feminism, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. She is working on her first book, Spaces of Resistance, in which she analyzes representations of Black and gender non-binary bodies in feminist Caribbean literature as contestations to hegemonic notions of race, gender, sexuality, and the naturalizing effects of space endorsed by the State. The monograph dialogues with notions of cimarronaje (marronage) and proposes a relational and collective conception of identity. Her current research focuses on black and feminist collective in the Caribbean, Abya Yala, and its diasporas. She is also the co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of Candela Review, a peer-review and open-access Afro-Feminist journal.

Michael Monahan (Ph.D., University of Illinois) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. joined the department in 2017. He taught at Marquette University (2003-2017) and is a founding member of the Phenomenology Roundtable. His book, The Creolizing Subject: Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity (Fordham University Press, 2011) engages in a critique of much of the dominant theoretical discourse on race and racism and offering a phenomenology of race that eschews the “politics of purity”. An active member of the Caribbean Philosophical Association since it’s first meeting in 2004, he served as Vice-President from 2009-2013, and continues to serve as Treasurer. He has taught courses in Africana Philosophy, Philosophy of Race, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Feminist Philosophy, Hegel, and Nietzsche. His current work investigates the uses and abuses of theories of "recognition" in the context of racial oppression and liberation. He also practices and teaches martial arts. Read more…

Paget Henry is Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies at Brown University. His specializations are Dependency Theory, Caribbean Political Economy, Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Art and Literature, Africana Philosophy and Religion, Race and Ethnic Relations, Poststructuralism, and Critical Theory. He has served on the faculties of S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook, University of the West Indies (Antigua) and the University of Virginia. Henry is editor of The C.L.R. James Journal and co-editor of the Routledge series Africana Thought. He is also an external examiner for the University of the West Indies and the University of Guyana. His awards and fellowships include Research Fellow at the Bildner Center for Western Hemispheric Studies, Research Fellow at the Center for Inter-American Relations, and a Ford Foundation Grant. Read more…

Camille Monahan earned her J.D. at Marquette University Law School in 2009 and took a trial attorney position with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the summer of that year. She has a dual specialty in feminist legal issues and disability discrimination. Camille has published in Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. She was also part of the legal team in the ground-breaking Resources for Human Development case, which determined that morbid-obesity can be a covered disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act. During law school, Camille clerked with an NGO in Barbados. While there she conducted research comparing the historic rates of women’s graduation from college in business related fields with the number of women holding positions on the boards of companies traded on the Barbadian and Trinidadian stock exchanges and helped to organize a conference on women’s issues.

Lewis Ricardo Gordon is Chairperson of the Awards Committee of the Caribbean Philosophical Association. He is Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Global Affairs and Head of the Philosophy Department, with affiliations in Caribbean, Latina/o, and Latin American Studies, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies,Asian and Asian American Studies, and Judaic Studies at the University of Connecticut; Honorary President of the Global Center for Advanced Studies; and Distinguished Scholar at The Most Honourable PJ Patterson Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy at The University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica. He is the founding President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association (2003–2008).

Jane Anna Gordon, a specialist in Africana political, creolization theory, social, and educational thought, modern and contemporary European social and political theory, methodologies in the social sciences, and contemporary slavery, is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Global Affairs at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. She previously taught in the Department of Political Science at Temple University, where she was a 2009-2010 faculty fellow at the Center for the Humanities. Her first book, Why They Couldn’t Wait: A Critique of the Black-Jewish Conflict over Community Control in Ocean Hill-Brownsville (RoutledgeFalmer 2001), was listed by the Gotham Gazette as one of the four best recent books on civil rights. Her most recent monographs are Statelessness and Contemporary Enslavement (Routledge 2020) and Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau through Frantz Fanon (Fordham University Press 2014) and her co-edited volumes (with Drucilla Cornell) Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg (Rowman and Littlefield 2021) and (with Cyrus E. Zirakzadeh) The Politics of Richard Wright: Perspectives on Resistance (University Press of Kentucky 2019). She also co-authored (with Lewis R. Gordon), Of Divine Warning: Reading Disaster in the Modern Age (Routledge, 2009). Her works also include (with Lewis R. Gordon, Aaron Kamugisha, and Neil Roberts), Journeys in Caribbean Thought: The Paget Henry Reader (Rowman and Littlefield International 2016); (with Neil Roberts) Creolizing Rousseau (Rowman and Littlefield International 2015); (with Lewis R. Gordon)The Companion to African American Studies (Blackwell Publishers 2006), which was the NetLibrary Book of the Month in February 2007; and (also with Lewis R. Gordon) Not Only the Master’s Tools: African-American Studies in Theory and Practice (Routledge 2006). Her articles have appeared in the C.L.R. James Journal: A Review of Caribbean Ideas, Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, Journal of Contemporary Thought, Journal of World Philosophies, Contemporary Political Theory, Critical Philosophy of Race, The Common Reader, New Political Science, The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, Journal of Political Theology, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, Discourse, Listening, Interventions, Performance Research, SOULS, Statelessness and Citizenship Review, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Radical Philosophy Review, Quaderna, Africa Development, differences, and Philosophical Studies in Education. Her recent essay, “Theorizing Contemporary Practices of Enslavement: A Portrait of the Old and New,” won the American Political Science Association 2012 Foundations in Political Theory Best Paper Prize. She has been a member of the Caribbean Philosophical Association since its founding in 2003 and was President from 2013-2016, during which she founded the Caribbean Philosophical Association Summer School (which she continues to direct) and co-founded the Creolizing the Canon and Global Critical Caribbean Thought book series.. With Lewis R. Gordon, she co-founded and continues to edit the peer-reviewed open-access journal, Philosophy and Global Affairs.

Rosario Torres Guevara comes from Monterrey, NL, Mexico, where she completed her undergraduate studies in the school of Philosophy and Letters with a concentration on Applied Linguistics and Didactics from the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon. Rosario continued her postgraduate studies at Teachers College, Columbia University where she obtained a Master’s degree in Linguistcs/TESOL and a Doctorate in International Educational Development with a concentration on Bilingualism and Interculturalism. Her research interests are Border Theory, Intercultural Education, Fanonian Pedagogy, and Decoloniality Studies. In addition to her work as a professor in various schools of New York, including CUNY City College, Columbia University and the Borough of Manhattan Community College, Rosario has worked as a volunteer and community leader in extracurricular school and community programs in New York as well as abroad. She has been listed as a community leader by the Mexican Consulate in New York City and has been a consultant in bilingual and intercultural educational programs that safeguard indigenous peoples in Argentina and Mexico. She is currently Assistant Professor of Critical Thinking and Writing in the Borough of Manhattan Community College in CUNY. She has been a member of the Caribbean Philosophical Association since 2005, secretary since 2010, Vice President from 2013-2016, and a member of the Executive Board since 2011.

Thomas Meagher is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Sam Houston State University. He works in the areas of social and political philosophy, Africana philosophy, phenomenology, and existentialism, with particular interest in questions pertaining to race, gender, and coloniality and their capacity to shape and re-shape human values. He earned his doctorate at the University of Connecticut where he completed his dissertation, “Maturity in a Human World: A Philosophical Study.” He has also served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Memphis, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Quinnipiac University, and as a Du Bois Visiting Scholar at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

Dana Francisco Miranda is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Boston as well as a Research Associate for the Philosophy Department at the University of Connecticut. His research is in political philosophy, Africana philosophy, phenomenology, and psychosocial studies. His current book manuscript, “The Coloniality of Happiness,” investigates the philosophical significance of suicide, depression, and wellbeing for members of the African Diaspora. He also currently serves as a Faculty Research Fellow for the Applied Ethics Center (University of Massachusetts Boston). Read more.