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Omar Encarnación Makes a Case for President-elect Joe Biden to Establish a Truth Commission to Examine Trump Administration on Human Rights

“Given the unprecedented assault on American democracy by the Trump administration, it is far too risky to fall back on the default mode of letting bygones be bygones,” writes Encarnación. “The most important take-away from the 2020 general election is that while Trump was defeated, Trumpism was not. But harnessing the resources and prestige of the U.S. government to expose the whole truth about Trumpism, especially its contempt for basic human rights, will go a long way towards ensuring its passing.”

Omar Encarnación Makes a Case for President-elect Joe Biden to Establish a Truth Commission to Examine Trump Administration on Human Rights

“Given the unprecedented assault on American democracy by the Trump administration, it is far too risky to fall back on the default mode of letting bygones be bygones,” writes Encarnación. “The most important take-away from the 2020 general election is that while Trump was defeated, Trumpism was not. But harnessing the resources and prestige of the U.S. government to expose the whole truth about Trumpism, especially its contempt for basic human rights, will go a long way towards ensuring its passing.”
 
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Post Date: 11-28-2020

Bard Diplomat in Residence Frederic C. Hof on Lebanon 50 Years after Its Last State-builder

Fifty years ago, Fouad Chehab tried to create a state out of Lebanon and failed. Today Lebanon is no closer to his vision of real statehood but needs it more than ever, writes Bard Diplomat in Residence Fred Hof.

Bard Diplomat in Residence Frederic C. Hof on Lebanon 50 Years after Its Last State-builder

Fifty years ago, Fouad Chehab tried to create a state out of Lebanon and failed. Today Lebanon is no closer to his vision of real statehood but needs it more than ever, writes Bard Diplomat in Residence Fred Hof. “On Aug. 4, 1970,” Hof writes, “the man who had served from 1958 to 1964 as the third president of the independent Lebanese Republic, Gen. Fouad Chehab, issued a written statement declining to stand for the presidency again. [...] Fifty years later – to the day – a massive explosion nearly vaporized Beirut’s port, inflicting widespread death, injury, and wreckage throughout Lebanon’s capital. Lebanon’s so-called government had, with breathtaking negligence, permitted nearly 3,000 tons of extremely volatile ammonium nitrate to be stored in a warehouse; it had done so with barely a thought for public safety. Chehab’s understated rendering of fact in August 1970 – that Lebanon was not a state, thus making the presidency itself irrelevant – manifested itself exactly 50 years later as the deadly indictment of a ravenous, incompetent, and terminally useless political class.”
 
Full Story in New Lines Magazine

Post Date: 11-23-2020

President-elect Joe Biden’s Secretary of State Pick Antony J. Blinken Discusses Multilateral Diplomacy and U.S. Global Leadership with Walter Russell Mead in 2016 Discussion, Reposted this Week by Council on Foreign Relations

CFR writes that Blinken, Deputy Secretary of State at the time, “discusses the benefits of an open-facing United States and how acting multilaterally with other countries has made the country’s leadership more effective. He also shares opinions on how the country should strengthen the liberal international order it built over the decades and adapt it to new global realities.”

President-elect Joe Biden’s Secretary of State Pick Antony J. Blinken Discusses Multilateral Diplomacy and U.S. Global Leadership with Walter Russell Mead in 2016 Discussion, Reposted this Week by Council on Foreign Relations

CFR writes that Blinken, Deputy Secretary of State at the time, “discusses the benefits of an open-facing United States and how acting multilaterally with other countries has made the country’s leadership more effective. He also shares opinions on how the country should strengthen the liberal international order it built over the decades and adapt it to new global realities.” Walter Russell Mead is the James Clarke Chace Professor in Foreign Affairs and Humanities at Bard College.
 
Full Discussion in CFR

Post Date: 11-20-2020
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  • On-Campus Voting a Success at Bard

    On-Campus Voting a Success at Bard

    Last week, Bard College hosted an on-campus polling site for the first time, following a lawsuit this fall against the Dutchess County Board of Elections. “It went really well,” says Jonathan Becker, executive vice president and director of the Center for Civic Engagement. “We had 20 people lined up to vote at 6 in the morning. It was particularly gratifying at around 9 a.m. when Bard President Leon Botstein and senior Sadia Saba, who are both plaintiffs in the lawsuit, came and voted together. To see that happen was really heartwarming.”
    Story on WAMC

    Post Date: 11-06-2020
  • Commentary: Remove obstacles to student vote

    Commentary: Remove obstacles to student vote

    The Bard community was thrilled and proud to welcome voters to an on-campus polling site for the first time last week. Why not make campus voting available to every college student? Read commentary in the Times Union from Bard’s Jonathan Becker and Assemblywoman Nily Rozic on removing obstacles to student voting statewide, including proposed legislation that would require polling stations on college campuses with large numbers of voters.
    Full Story in the Times Union

    Post Date: 11-04-2020
  • Simon Gilhooley on Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court Confirmation and Tracing the Origins of “Originalism” to Slavery

    Simon Gilhooley on Amy Coney Barrett’s Supreme Court Confirmation and Tracing the Origins of “Originalism” to Slavery

    “At the core is a fundamentally conservative effort to limit the possibilities of our constitutional order to the imagination of historical figures from the 18th century, many of whom believed in freedoms of religion, assembly and speech, but also in the existence of a natural aristocracy, chattel slavery and a rigid racial hierarchy,” writes Gilhooly, assistant professor of political studies at Bard College and author of The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution: Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding. “Until we acknowledge this ‘origin’ of originalism in defenses of slavery, we are ill equipped to imagine a constitutional order that transcends our society’s history of racial injustice.”
     
    Read the Story in the Washington Post

    Post Date: 10-22-2020
  • Diplomat in Residence Frederic Hof Says 2012 Mediation Provides Roadmap for Revived Lebanon-Israel Talks on Maritime Separation Line in the Mediterranean

    Diplomat in Residence Frederic Hof Says 2012 Mediation Provides Roadmap for Revived Lebanon-Israel Talks on Maritime Separation Line in the Mediterranean

    “Today, the Lebanese seem motivated to reach an agreement that would calm the nerves of international energy companies, spur exploration and eventually produce significant revenue for a broken economy. Israel should be prepared to accept the outcome it accepted in 2012,” writes Hof, who led the US mediation effort from late 2010 until November 2012. “It would not be advisable for Israelis, Lebanese or Americans to ignore altogether the results produced in 2012 by an intensive, good-faith mediation.”
    Full Story in the Financial Times

    Post Date: 10-22-2020
  • Samantha Rose Hill on Hannah Arendt’s Beliefs about Loneliness, Ideology, and Totalitarianism

    Samantha Rose Hill on Hannah Arendt’s Beliefs about Loneliness, Ideology, and Totalitarianism

    “Totalitarianism uses isolation to deprive people of human companionship, making action in the world impossible, while destroying the space of solitude,” writes Hill in Aeon. “The iron-band of totalitarianism, as Arendt calls it, destroys man’s ability to move, to act, and to think, while turning each individual in his lonely isolation against all others, and himself. The world becomes a wilderness, where neither experience nor thinking are possible.”
    Read more in Aeon

    Post Date: 10-21-2020
  • Opinion: Roger Berkowitz on the Information Collapse of the Trump Era

    Opinion: Roger Berkowitz on the Information Collapse of the Trump Era

    “Our infatuation with images and our flight from the real world is all around us. The President lied about the size of the crowds at his inauguration. He lied to the American people about the coronavirus. He is now lying about the threat of voter fraud,” writes Berkowitz. “The end goal of lying as a way of life is not that the lies are believed, but the cementing of cynicism. When cynicism reigns, not only is everything permitted but also everything is possible. Cynicism is the fertile ground in which power grows unstoppable absent the constraints of reality.”
    Read More in LitHub

    Post Date: 10-18-2020

Political Studies Events

  • 1/28
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    Thursday, January 28, 2021
    Should the US set up a truth commission after the Trump presidency? 
    Online Event 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    We kick off our 2021 Chace Talk series with a discussion on Trump and truth, specifically, whether it's worth considering a truth and reconciliation commission. We’ll be joined by Bard College professor Omar Encarnación, who penned an article, “Truth After Trump,” for Foreign Policy magazine. Join us on January 28 at 12pm EST/6pm Vienna. RSVP required. 

    12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Online Event
  • 2/11
    Thursday

    Thursday, February 11, 2021
    A Look at the Arab Spring a Decade Later
    Online Event 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    A decade has passed since hundreds of thousands poured into Cairo's Tahrir Square, igniting the Arab Spring. What has happened since? Join us on Thursday, February 11 (exactly 10 years to the day that Hosni Mubarak stepped down), at 12pm EST/6pm Vienna. We'll be joined by Century Foundation's Thanassis Cambanis, author of Once Upon a Revolution: An Egyptian Story, and Michael Hanna, author of Arab Politics Beyond the Uprisings. RSVP required. 

    12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Online Event
  • 3/10
    Wednesday

    Wednesday, March 10, 2021
    What have we learned about the coronavirus?  
    Online Event 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5
    Last March changed all of our lives. What have learned about the coronavirus? Now that there are vaccines, how quickly will we go back to "normal?" What does the future hold for future pandemics? We'll be joined by Laurie Garrett, author of many books on pandemics, including The Coming Plague, and Heidi Larson, director of the Vaccine Confidence Project. Save the date: Wednesday, March 10, at 12pm EST/6pm Vienna. You don't want to miss this talk. RSVP required.

    12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Online Event
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2020

Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Online Event  7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EST/GMT-5
All of us work and study on a large campus and live in a thinly populated rural area. We tend to inhabit virtual bubbles where we are surrounded by people who see things the way we do. And whether we are newcomers to the Mid-Hudson Valley or longtime residents, we do not always understand the “signs” we encounter. What do yard signs in election season or “thin blue line” flags tell us about the landscape in which we live? What do colonial estates-turned-museums reveal about enduring inequalities? What murals and monuments “hide” in plain sight because they do not match our pre-set ideas about the place we may (or may not) feel we belong to? Who harvests the local crops but cannot afford to shop at the farmers’ market?
 
In an effort to shine some light on systemic racism and anti-racist alternatives in our everyday surroundings, the Division of Social Studies is organizing a “Reading the Signs” roundtable over Zoom as well as an accompanying online archive. The roundtable will also offer Bard community members an opportunity to reflect on the implications of the election on November 3rd, whatever the outcome happens to be.

Call for Contributions!
What signs do you think need reading? What is an image, flag, space, mural, monument, memorial, item of clothing, word/phrase, etc. that points to instances of systemic racism in the past or present? What is a sign that points to anti-racist precedents in the past and/or emancipatory possibilities for the future?
 
In the days leading up to the roundtable, the Social Studies Division invites all Bard community members (students, staff, and faculty) to send photos, videos, audio recordings, and other documents of systemic racism and anti-racism to readingthesigns@bard.edu.
 
All contributions must be accompanied by a brief written statement (anything from a few sentences to a substantial paragraph) that provides initial context, explanation, and interpretation.
 
The roundtable will feature many of these contributions, which can be made anonymous upon request. The Division of Social Studies will also maintain an online archive of signs that will be available to Bard community members before and after the event.

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Thursday, November 12, 2020
Online Event  2:00 pm – 3:00 pm EST/GMT-5
This event will take place at 8pm Vienna time.Join Zoom EventThis event is sponsored by the Open Society University Network

More than a week after the election, results may remain unclear but the narrative of “where we go from here” will have started to form. Professor Walter Russell Mead and Matt Taibbi, author, journalist, and contributing editor for Rolling Stone, will discuss the future of US foreign policy and the immediate lessons of the 2020 election.

Matt Taibbi '92 is a journalist, contributing editor for Rolling Stone, and the author of several bestselling books including, most recently, Hate Inc., an incisive look into how media is “manufacturing discontent” and driving polarization in the US. Taibbi is also the publisher of a newsletter on Substack and cohost of the Useful Idiots podcast.

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Monday, November 9, 2020
A live broadcast of “How to Fix Democracy,” a talk-show hosted by Andrew Keen and produced by Bertelsmann Foundation and Humanity in Action
Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center  5:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
This is a hybrid event, with a maximum of 20 Bard students attending in person at the Ottaway Film Center. Students interested in attending in person may RSVP to Nik Slackman at ns0385@bard.edu.

We invite additional members of the campus community and the public to attend via Zoom webinar.

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Tuesday, November 3, 2020
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art  Marking one week prior to the presidential election and flying until the votes have been counted and the election results are ratified, CCS Bard will present Flag, 2005, by Frank Benson. Flag was first flown at CCS Bard in 2005 as part of an exhibition titled Uncertain States of America. Fifteen years later, the echoes of that title reverberate through our media as well as our psyches. Hoisting Flag at this time, on the 50-ft. pole at the entrance to the Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, provides a visual representation of the distorted and perilous period in which we live, as the nation struggles through several simultaneous crises and hurtles toward the most consequential election of our lives.


Monday, November 2, 2020
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art  Marking one week prior to the presidential election and flying until the votes have been counted and the election results are ratified, CCS Bard will present Flag, 2005, by Frank Benson. Flag was first flown at CCS Bard in 2005 as part of an exhibition titled Uncertain States of America. Fifteen years later, the echoes of that title reverberate through our media as well as our psyches. Hoisting Flag at this time, on the 50-ft. pole at the entrance to the Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, provides a visual representation of the distorted and perilous period in which we live, as the nation struggles through several simultaneous crises and hurtles toward the most consequential election of our lives.


Sunday, November 1, 2020
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art  Marking one week prior to the presidential election and flying until the votes have been counted and the election results are ratified, CCS Bard will present Flag, 2005, by Frank Benson. Flag was first flown at CCS Bard in 2005 as part of an exhibition titled Uncertain States of America. Fifteen years later, the echoes of that title reverberate through our media as well as our psyches. Hoisting Flag at this time, on the 50-ft. pole at the entrance to the Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, provides a visual representation of the distorted and perilous period in which we live, as the nation struggles through several simultaneous crises and hurtles toward the most consequential election of our lives.


Saturday, October 31, 2020
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art  Marking one week prior to the presidential election and flying until the votes have been counted and the election results are ratified, CCS Bard will present Flag, 2005, by Frank Benson. Flag was first flown at CCS Bard in 2005 as part of an exhibition titled Uncertain States of America. Fifteen years later, the echoes of that title reverberate through our media as well as our psyches. Hoisting Flag at this time, on the 50-ft. pole at the entrance to the Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, provides a visual representation of the distorted and perilous period in which we live, as the nation struggles through several simultaneous crises and hurtles toward the most consequential election of our lives.


Friday, October 30, 2020
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art  Marking one week prior to the presidential election and flying until the votes have been counted and the election results are ratified, CCS Bard will present Flag, 2005, by Frank Benson. Flag was first flown at CCS Bard in 2005 as part of an exhibition titled Uncertain States of America. Fifteen years later, the echoes of that title reverberate through our media as well as our psyches. Hoisting Flag at this time, on the 50-ft. pole at the entrance to the Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, provides a visual representation of the distorted and perilous period in which we live, as the nation struggles through several simultaneous crises and hurtles toward the most consequential election of our lives.


Thursday, October 29, 2020
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art  Marking one week prior to the presidential election and flying until the votes have been counted and the election results are ratified, CCS Bard will present Flag, 2005, by Frank Benson. Flag was first flown at CCS Bard in 2005 as part of an exhibition titled Uncertain States of America. Fifteen years later, the echoes of that title reverberate through our media as well as our psyches. Hoisting Flag at this time, on the 50-ft. pole at the entrance to the Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, provides a visual representation of the distorted and perilous period in which we live, as the nation struggles through several simultaneous crises and hurtles toward the most consequential election of our lives.


Wednesday, October 28, 2020
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art  Marking one week prior to the presidential election and flying until the votes have been counted and the election results are ratified, CCS Bard will present Flag, 2005, by Frank Benson. Flag was first flown at CCS Bard in 2005 as part of an exhibition titled Uncertain States of America. Fifteen years later, the echoes of that title reverberate through our media as well as our psyches. Hoisting Flag at this time, on the 50-ft. pole at the entrance to the Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, provides a visual representation of the distorted and perilous period in which we live, as the nation struggles through several simultaneous crises and hurtles toward the most consequential election of our lives.


Tuesday, October 27, 2020
CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art  Marking one week prior to the presidential election and flying until the votes have been counted and the election results are ratified, CCS Bard will present Flag, 2005, by Frank Benson. Flag was first flown at CCS Bard in 2005 as part of an exhibition titled Uncertain States of America. Fifteen years later, the echoes of that title reverberate through our media as well as our psyches. Hoisting Flag at this time, on the 50-ft. pole at the entrance to the Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, provides a visual representation of the distorted and perilous period in which we live, as the nation struggles through several simultaneous crises and hurtles toward the most consequential election of our lives.


Thursday, October 22, 2020
  Online Event  6:30 pm – 7:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Jessica Segal, a candidate for Dutchess County Court Judge on the Democratic and Green tickets will visit Bard to talk about her campaign and judicial elections. A Q&A will follow.



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Wednesday, October 7, 2020
  Online Event  6:00 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Assembly Member Kevin Cahill who represents the 103rd District in the New State Assembly (which includes Bard College) will be visiting campus to discuss his campaign for re-election.

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Friday, October 2, 2020
Mastering the Interview
Online Event  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5
The Bard Globalization and International Affairs program will be hosting a professional development series so that you can learn more about the program and get a glimpse of what we offer. Brush up on your cover letter and resume writing and get updated tips on interviewing amid the time of Covid-19. Click on the Event Brite link to sign up and learn more. 


Thursday, October 1, 2020
Cutting-edge cover letters
Online Event  4:00 pm – 5:00 pm EST/GMT-5
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The Bard Globalization and International Affairs program will be hosting a professional development series so that you can learn more about the program and get a glimpse of what we offer. Brush up on your cover letter and resume writing and get updated tips on interviewing amid the time of Covid-19. Click on the Event Brite link to sign up and learn more. 


Thursday, October 1, 2020
Online Event  12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Dr. Kiron Skinner, former director for policy planning at the US State Department and senior adviser to the Secretary of State, will join Walter Russell Mead to discuss what a second Trump administration's foreign policy priorities and challenges might be.

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The Power of the Public Intellectual Series, moderated by Bard College Professor and Wall Street Journal “Global View” columnist Walter Russell Mead, is a series of virtual dialogues focused on the stakes and core issues of the 2020 US election. Professor Mead will be joined by distinguished policy experts, academics, and public servants to discuss the choice America will make this November. Over the course of several livestreamed events, the series will provide insight into both campaigns’ perspectives and the potential consequences, particularly for foreign policy, of either outcome.Kiron Skinner, Taube Professor of International Relations and Politics at Carnegie Mellon University, was senior policy adviser to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Skinner also served as director of policy planning, one of the State Department’s most influential positions.. Skinner also serves as director of policy planning, one of the State Department’s most influential positions. Skinner is the founding director of Carnegie Mellon’s Institute for Politics and Strategy (IPS) and a renowned expert in foreign policy. She served on President Trump’s national security transition team in 2016.
 Learn more about the OSUN 2020 U.S. Election Series


Tuesday, September 29, 2020
Resume writing
Online Event  10:00 am – 11:00 am EST/GMT-5
The Bard Globalization and International Affairs program will be hosting a professional development series so that you can learn more about the program and get a glimpse of what we offer. Brush up on your cover letter and resume writing and get updated tips on interviewing amid the time of Covid-19. Click on the Event Brite link to sign up and learn more. 


Thursday, September 24, 2020
  Online Event  5:30 pm – 6:30 pm EST/GMT-5
PS 265 Campaign 2020 will host Karen S. Smythe, who is running as the Democratic nominee for the New York State Senate in the 41st Senate District for a talk and Q&A. The event is open to the Bard community. 

Join via Zoom: https://bard.zoom.us/j/93787740088?pwd=aExsNVNxekxBVlpnQWxwY2g4R09RQT09
 


Friday, September 18, 2020
  Online Event  1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Students beginning Senior Projects in Political Studies and related programs are invited to join librarians Jeremy Hall and Alexa Murphy for a one-hour workshop to learn strategies for navigating the library's resources, searching effectively, and accessing sources.

Topic: Research Workshop for Political Studies Seniors
Time: September 18, 2020 1:00pm Eastern Daylight Time (US and Canada)

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Monday, March 9, 2020
Study Away in NYC! Experience International Affairs First-Hand
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  5:00 pm – 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Meet with BGIA Director Elmira Bayrasli and Associate Dean of Civic Engagement and Director of Strategic Partnerships Brian Mateo for an overview about the program based in NYC, including:

- BGIA faculty and course offerings
- Internships and student projects
- Our dorms in NYC
- How to apply to BGIA
- Q&A


Thursday, March 5, 2020
  Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EST/GMT-5
Anna Rosmus, an author and researcher whose high school essay exposed the Nazi past of her home town, will speak about her research and experiences, the importance of historical truth, and the challenges of being labeled a traitor, following the showing of The Nasty Girl, a film based on Anna’s life. Cosponsored by Center for Civic Engagement, German Studies, Hannah Arendt Center, Historical Studies, Political Studies.


Friday, February 21, 2020
  Neil Roberts; Associate Professor of Africana Studies, Political Theory, and the Philosophy of Religion at Williams College
Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium  2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EST/GMT-5
His talk features pieces of his latest book project that examines what it means to live free, the challenges of genres of pessimism, and finally provides a way forward for the pessimistic.  
Neil Roberts received a B.A. in Afro-American Studies and Law & Public Policy from Brown University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago with a specialization in political theory. A high school teacher, debate coach, and NCAA Division 1 soccer player prior to graduate school, Roberts is the recipient of fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation as well as a member of the Caribbean Philosophical Association Board of Directors.

His present writings deal with the intersections of Caribbean, Continental, and North American political theory with respect to theorizing the concepts of freedom and agency. Roberts is co-editor of both the CAS Working Papers in Africana Studies Series (with Ben Vinson) and a collection of essays (with Jane Anna Gordon) on the theme Creolizing Rousseau (2015), and he is the guest editor of a Theory & Event symposium on the Trayvon Martin case. In addition to being on the Executive Editorial Board of the journal Political Theory and former Chair of CPA Publishing Partnerships that includes The C.L.R. James Journal and books with Rowman and Littlefield International, he is author of the award-winning book Freedom as Marronage (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and the collaborative work Journeys in Caribbean Thought (2016). His most recent book is A Political Companion to Frederick Douglass (2018) from The University Press of Kentucky. Roberts served as President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association from 2016 to December 2019. Since July 2018, he has been the W. Ford Schumann Faculty Fellow in Democratic Studies.


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