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Dr. Adebayo Oluwayomi
Assistant Professor
College of Arts & Humanities - Philosophy
Bio
Dr. Adebayo Oluwayomi is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. His research and teaching interests contribute to the areas of African/Africana Philosophy, Critical Race Theory, Anticolonial/Postcolonial Philosophy, Philosophy of Race, Religion & Racial Reconciliation and Black Male Studies. Broadly construed, his research is aimed at evolving a humanizing discourse around the notions of race, ethnicity, gender, and other identity-categories for members of minoritized populations or social groups. Before joining West Chester University, Oluwayomi taught at Howard University, Southern Arkansas University, Whittier College, and served as the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow at the Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College. His published works appear in journals such as American Philosophical Quarterly, The Journal of Black Studies, the Journal of Pan African Studies, and the Inter-American Journal of Philosophy.
Education
- B.A., Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria
- M.A., University of Ibadan, Nigeria
- M.Sc., Texas A&M University
- Ph.D., Texas A&M University