Assistant Professor
e-mail: chike.jeffers@dal.ca

Interests:
Africana Philosophy, Philosophy of Race, Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics

Education:
Ph.D in Philosophy - Northwestern University, 2010
Dissertation title: The Black Gift: Cultural Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Africana Philosophy
B.A., Honours, in Philosophy (w/ minor in Film Studies) - York University, 2004

Edited Books:
Listening to Ourselves: A Multilingual Anthology of African Philosophy (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2013).

Articles:
"Appiah's Cosmopolitanism" (forthcoming in The Southern Journal of Philosophy).

"Do We Need African Canadian Philosophy?" (forthcoming in Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review/Revue canadienne de philosophie).

"Embodying Justice in Ancient Egypt: The Tale of the Eloquent Peasant as a Classic of Political Philosophy" (forthcoming in British Journal of the History of Philosophy).

"The Cultural Theory of Race: Yet Another Look at Du Bois's ""The Conservation of Races"" (forthcoming in Ethics).

Book Chapters:
"Should Black Kids Avoid Wearing Hoodies?" in George Yancy and Janine Jones (eds.), Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012).