道格拉斯·菲切克博士.D.

Having decided to study philosophy and genetics, I began my undergraduate work at 爱荷华州艾姆斯的爱荷华州立大学. Shortly thereafter, I came to realize that philosophy was my true passion — not science, although I still loved to read about it — and that I should focus on "the love of wisdom" exclusively. 但是我的重点是什么呢 be?

While the other philosophy majors were exploring the ontological status of numbers and the various arguments for the existence of God, my interests were far more existential, 更加具体. I wanted to explore issues concerning oppression and liberation, injustice and the ongoing fight for human freedom and dignity. 有点随波逐流，我 开始和J合作. Herman Blake, who, at the time, directed the small African-American ISU的研究项目. This would be a major turning point for me.

I soon realized that there is — and has long been — a profound intersection between philosophy and black studies, an intersection populated by some truly remarkable thinkers. And the more I read — from Alain Locke to Cornel West, from Anna Julia Cooper to Angela Y. Davis — the more I wanted to pursue Africana philosophy as a graduate student.

That desire ultimately brought me to New York City and to the Institute for 研究 in African-American Studies at Columbia University, where I did my M.A. 下 careful guidance of Manning Marable and Jim Murray, both of whom, I am sorry to say, 已经过世了. In addition to doing research for the Malcolm X and Africana Criminal Justice Projects, I completed a thesis titled "C.L.R. 詹姆斯与宗教."

After graduation, I began teaching as an adjunct faculty all over New York City — from Touro College to Boricua College, from LaGuardia Community College to the College 新罗谢尔. I also began my doctoral work in philosophy at Temple University 在宾夕法尼亚州费城. Needless to say, this required an absurd amount of commuting.

为什么选择天普大学? Quite simply, because I wanted to work with Lewis R. 戈登, a philosopher whose work I had admired since randomly finding a copy of Existentia Africana in the summer of 2000 — yet another major turning point for me. 在他的 supervision, I completed and successfully defended a dissertation titled "Man Is a Yes: Fanon, Liberation, and the Playful Politics of Philosophical Archaeology."

Having taught at John Jay College of Criminal Justice for roughly ten years, I am now 访问ing Assistant Professor at the 网赌上分平台, which is located 在康涅狄格州的西黑文.  Once again, I find myself doing lots of commuting.  I am married to Rosario Torres-Guevara, Assistant Professor of Developmental Skills at Borough of Manhattan Community College, and we have an awesome cat named 密友.

To find out more about Professor Ficek, visit his website at http://www.douglasficek.com/

"Distinction without Difference," review essay on The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses by Oyèrónké Oyewùmí, in Philosophy & 社会 Criticism, Volume 32, Number 4 (June 2006)

"Rawls, Race, and Reparations," in Radical Philosophy Review, Volume 5, Numbers 1 和2(2003年秋季)

"Humanism: African-American Liberation (A)theology," in Free Inquiry, Volume 21, Number 4(2001年秋季)

"College Students Talk Politics: Revisited," in Kettering Exchange (Fall 2000)