Michael L. Thomas is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator of Africana Studies at Susquehanna University. Previously, he was a Lecturer in Stanford University’s Structured Liberal Education Program and a Fellow at the Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie, Hannover. He holds a Ph.D. from the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. 

Michael is currently in Berlin as a Humboldt Foundation Research Fellow in the JFK Institute for North American Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, where he is working on two manuscripts. Societies of Feeling: The Aesthetics of Social Life develops a speculative theory of action and societies grounded in aesthetic experience. The second, Towards a Social Aesthetics of Race, develops an aesthetic philosophy of race through the intersection of seminal texts by W.E.B DuBois, James Baldwin, and Audre Lorde and contemporary work in Black Aesthetics, Black Existential Phenomenology, Black Feminism, and the Critical Philosophy of Race.

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