Nelson Maldonado-Torres

Nelson Maldonado-Torres is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut, and Professor Extraordinarious at the University of South Africa. A former President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association, he is Senior Associate of the BlackHouse Kollective-Soweto, and Co-Chair of the Frantz Fanon Foundation. His work focuses on ethics, social, political, and decolonial philosophy with particular attention to philosophical expressions in the Global South. His publications include Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity (2008), the co-edited book Decolonial Feminism in Abya Yala (2021), and recent book chapters such as “Combative Decoloniality and the Abolition of the Humanities: A Manifesto,” in the Routledge Companion to Postcolonial and Decolonial Literature (2025), and “Palestine, the War on Decolonization, and Combative Decoloniality” in The SAGE Handbook of Decolonial Theory (2025).