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Robert Gooding-Williams is a Senior Research Scholar in the Department of Philosophy at Yale University. He has taught at prestigious institutions including Simmons College, Amherst College, Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and Columbia University. An accomplished author, his works include 'Zarathustra’s Dionysian Modernism' (Stanford, 2001), 'Look, Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture, and Politics' (Routledge, 2005), and 'Shadow Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America' (Harvard, 2009). He is set to publish the Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures titled 'Democracy and Beauty: Political Aesthetics of W.E.B. Du Bois,' by Columbia University Press in spring 2025. In 2018, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020. Additionally, the Yale Graduate School Alumni Association honored him with the Wilbur Cross Medal in 2023, the highest distinction it awards to alumni. Gooding-Williams is also the organizer of the Department of Philosophy’s Spring 2025 Political Philosophy and Race Speaker Series.
Yale University • New Haven, CT
Senior Research Scholar in the Department of Philosophy.
Administered via the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). GRE General is optional for PhD.