Biography
Don Deere is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Texas A&M University. He previously was a faculty member at Wesleyan University and received his PhD with distinction from DePaul University and BA from Cornell University. He is a Mellon Mays fellow and the recipient of a Mellon Career Enhancement Faculty Fellowship. His research focuses on the intersections of Latin American, Caribbean, and Contemporary Continental European Philosophy. His book, The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space, is forthcoming with Duke University Press and he is the co-translator of Santiago Castro-Gómez’s Zero-Point Hubris: Science, Race, and Enlightenment in 18th-Century Latin America, published with Rowman & Littlefield International in 2021.
Scholarly Achievements
- The Invention of Order: On the Coloniality of Space (Duke University Press, Forthcoming)
Fall 2024 Course Schedule
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Phil 283.501 - Latin-American Philosophy. T, TH - 9:35-10:50 p.m. - YMCA 115.
Office Hours
- By Appointment
Educational Background
- Ph.D. in Philosophy with Distinction, DePaul University – 2016
- M.A. in Philosophy with Distinction, DePaul University – 2009
- B.A. in Philosophy, Cornell University – 2007
- B.A. in Government, Cornell University – 2007
- Certificate in Latin American Studies, Cornell University – 2007