Sabeen Ahmed
Assistant Professor
Philosophy
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AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Political Philosophy of Race; Philosophy of Law; Colonial/Imperial Studies; Foucault
AREAS OF COMPETENCE: Ancient and Medieval philosophy; Marx; 20th-Century Continental Philosophy; Critical Phenomenology
EDUCATION:
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY, Nashville, TN
Ph.D. Philosophy, Provost’s Graduate Fellow
Dissertation: “Coloniality and the Racial Ontopolitics of Law: Foucault’s Juridical Power Reconsidered”
Dissertation Committee: Idit Dobbs-Weinstein (chair), Lucius Outlaw, Jr., Paul C. Taylor, Kelly Oliver, Falguni Sheth
UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA, Charlottesville, VA
B.A. Philosophy (High Distinction), Spanish
Thesis: “Reason and Revelation in the Foundational Political Philosophy of Abu Nasr al-Farabi”
Thesis Adviser: Daniel T. Devereux Ahmed