Robert Gooding-Williams

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Robert Gooding-Williams
Born1953
Education Yale University (Ph.D.)
Era 21st-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy
Institutions Columbia University, University of Chicago, Northwestern University, Amherst College
Doctoral advisor George Schrader and Heinrich von Staden
Main interests
Nietzsche, philosophy of race

Robert Gooding-Williams (born 1953) is M. Moran Weston/Black Alumni Council Professor of African-American Studies and Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. He is the founding director of Columbia's Center for Race, Philosophy, and Social Justice. [1] He specializes in philosophy of race and Continental philosophy, especially Nietzsche.

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Education and career

Gooding-Williams earned a B.A. (1975) and Ph.D. (1982) in philosophy from Yale University. He taught first at Amherst College, where he became professor of black studies and George Lyman Crosby 1896 professor of philosophy. He became professor of philosophy at Northwestern University, where he taught for seven years and directed Northwestern's Alice Berline Kaplan Center for the Humanities. He joined the department of political science at the University of Chicago in 2006 and was named Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor in 2007. [2] He joined the Columbia faculty in 2014.

He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018. [3]

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References

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  2. Harms, William; Koppes, Steve; Payne, Lien; Schonwald, Josh (September 20, 2007). "University scholars receive distinguished, named professorships". University of Chicago Chronicle. University of Chicago. 27 (1).
  3. "Newly Elected Fellows". members.amacad.org. Archived from the original on 2019-01-14.
  4. Higgins, Kathleen Marie (2007-12-06). "Zarathustra's Midlife Crisis: A Response to Gooding-Williams". The Journal of Nietzsche Studies. 34 (1): 47–60. doi:10.1353/nie.2007.0018. ISSN   1538-4594. S2CID   170730916.
  5. Claborn, John (2012-06-28). "In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America (review)". African American Review. 44 (3): 537–538. doi:10.1353/afa.2010.0009. ISSN   1945-6182. S2CID   154043072.