Nelson Maldonado-Torres

Nelson Maldonado-Torres is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Connecticut. His publications include dozens of articles and book chapters on his main research areas, which include: theories of modernity/coloniality and decoloniality, Africana philosophy, Caribbean, Latin American and Latinx philosophy, philosophy of race, philosophy of religion, philosophy of the human sciences (with particular attention to “ethnic studies” and related fields), political philosophy (with particular attention to movement-generated theory, organizing, and action), phenomenology, philosophy of psychology, and liberation ethics. He is also the author of Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity (Duke UP, 2008), and La descolonización y el giro des-colonial (Universidad de la Tierra, 2011), among other books.