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Anthony Bogues (Ph.D., 1994, Political Theory, University of the West Indies, Mona) is Professor of Africana Studies, Royce Professor of Teaching Excellence( 2004-2007); and Harmon Family Professor He is also an affiliated faculty member of the departments of Political Science and Modern Culture and Media and a faculty associate at the Watson Institute for International Affairs. He is an affiliated faculty with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Bogues's major research and writing interests are intellectual. literary and cultural history, radical political thought, political theory , critical theory as well as Caribbean and African politics. He is the author of Caliban's Freedom: The Early Political Thought of C.L.R. James (1997); Black Heretics and Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals (2003); Empire of Liberty: Power, Freedom and Desire ( 2010 ); Caribbean Thought and the Radical Imagination ( 2010)He is the editor of two volumes on Caribbean intellectual and literary history, and has published numerous essays and articles on the history of criticism, critical theory, political thought, political philosophy , intellectual and cultural history . Bogues is an associate director of the Center for Caribbean Thought, University of the West Indies, Mona; an associate editor of the journal Small Axe a member of the editoral collective for the journal boundary 2. He is an honorary professor at the Center for African Studies , the University of Cape Town , South Africa. He teaches courses on Africana political philosophy, cultural politics, intellectual history and contemporary critical theory and comparative literatures of Africa and the African Diaspora.