Charles W. Mills address

Crowe Hall 1-141

1860 Campus Drive

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL 60208
EDUCATION:

1971 B.Sc. University of the West Indies (Honors/Physics)

1976 M.A. University of Toronto (Philosophy)

1985 Ph.D. University of Toronto (Philosophy)

Thesis title: “The Concept of Ideology in the Thought of Marx and Engels”

SCHOLARSHIPS, HONORS, AND AWARDS:

71. 
    Jamaica Scholarship
    

76. 
    Commonwealth Fellowship
    

78. 
    University of Toronto Doctoral Fellowship
    

79. 
    University of Toronto Doctoral Fellowship
    

80. 
    Ontario Graduate Scholarship
    

81. 
    University of Toronto Doctoral Fellowship
    

82. 
    University of Toronto Doctoral Fellowship
    

83. 
    Ontario Graduate Scholarship
    

1988. 
      University of Oklahoma Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship
      

93. 
    University of Illinois at Chicago Minority Research Fellowship
    

94. 
    Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago
    

1997. 
      Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights
      

2002. 
      University Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago
      

2004. 
      Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago
      

2007. 
      John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Northwestern
      

2009 Nominated for Vice President/President of the APA, Central Division (came 3rd)

2013 Nominated for Vice President/President of the APA, Central Division (came 2nd)

2011, 2014 Nominated for Vice President/President of the APA Central Division (declined)

2013-2014 Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll, Northwestern University

2014 Scholar Session on my work at the annual meeting of the Society for

Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP)

2016 Nominated for Vice President/President of the APA, Central Division

2016 John Dewey Lecture, APA Central Division meeting

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY:

73. 
    Physics Lecturer at the College of Arts, Science and Technology
    

77. 
    Physics Teacher at Campion College (Kingston, Jamaica)
    

87. 
    Grader, Teaching Assistant, Instructor for various courses, University of Toronto
    

90. 
    Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma
    

93. 
    Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
    

1999-2007 Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

2007- Professor, Northwestern University
COURSES TAUGHT:

Introductory level: Introduction to Philosophy, Introduction to Ethics, Introduction to Political Philosophy, Philosophy, Race, and Racism

Upper division: Contemporary Social and Political Philosophy, Topics in the History of Ethics, History of Social and Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Feminism, Caribbean Studies (honors), African-American Philosophy, Social Contract Theory, The Politics of Race and Gender (with Sandra Bartky), The Politics of Dystopia, Philosophy and Race, Theories of Justice, Marx and Marxism

Graduate seminars: Analytical Marxism, Recent Ethical Theory, Marx and Marxism, Conservatism, Philosophy and Race, Radical Political Theory, Theories of Justice, Contractarianism and Its Critics, Egalitarian Justice, Ideal vs. Non-Ideal Normative Political Theory, Critical Philosophy of Race

Dissertation committee member for: Ed Tverdek, Barbara Perkowitz-Solheim, Abby Wilkerson, Emily Budziak Williams, Robert Noggle, Linda Hirshman, Rashmi Varma (UIC English Dept.), Paola Lortie, David Owen, Tristan Tamplin, Troy Kozma, Jeanine Weekes-Schroer, John Santiago, Kimberley Ruffin (UIC English Dept.), Lori Watson, Mary Simmerling, Andrew Pierce (Loyola University, Chicago), Kelby Harrison, Melissa Kozma, April Shaw (University of Colorado at Boulder), Chike Jeffers, Greg Laski (Northwestern English Dept.), Kimberly Singletary (Northwestern Communications Dept.), Tyler Zimmer, Seth Mayer, Bernard Forjwuor (Northwestern African American Studies), Jean-Pierre Brutus (Northwestern African American Studies), Damon Sajnani (Northwestern African American Studies)
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Social and Political Philosophy, Ethics, Marxism,

African-American Philosophy, Critical Race Theory

for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America and was chosen by the 2000 Program Committee of the American Sociological Association as one of ten recent

books “deemed to be important contributions to the discipline”; it was also nominated by

Cornell for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.)

pp. 117-30; Matt Zwolinski, ed., Arguing about Political Philosophy, 2^nd ed. (New York: Routledge, 2014), pp. 86-108.

2. 
   Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
   

2. 
   From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003). In the Rowman & Littlefield “New Critical Theory” series. Pp. 285 + xxii.
   

2. 
   Contract and Domination (Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2007), co-authored with Carole
   

2. 
   Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality: Race, Class and Social Domination (Mona, Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2010). Pp. 284 + xxiii.
   

2. 
   Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism. Forthcoming Oxford
   

(Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004). In the Blackwell “Philosophy: The Big Questions” series. Pp. 530 + xiv.

Sebastiani (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2015). In the “Racism Analysis Series B Yearbook,” Volume 6. Pp. 241.

Gooding-Williams, “Race in a ‘Postracial’ Epoch,” Vol. 11, No. 1 (Spring 2014).

1985), pp. 327-46. Reprinted in Bob Jessop and Charlie Malcolm-Brown, eds., Karl

2. 
   “Marxism and Naturalistic Mystification,” Science and Society, Vol. XLIX, No. 4
   

2. 
   “Race and Class: Conflicting or Reconcilable Paradigms?,” Social and Economic Studies,
   

2. 
   “The Intervention in ‘Common Sense,’” in Josiane Boulad-Ayoub, ed., Politique et
   

pp. 69-81.

2. 
   “Alternative Epistemologies,” Social Theory and Practice, Special Issue: Marxism-
   

pp. 237-63. Reprinted in Linda Martín Alcoff, ed., Epistemology: The Big Questions

(Malden, MA: Blackwell, 1998), pp. 392-410.

2. 
   “Red Peril to the Green Island: The ‘Communist Threat’ to Jamaica in Genre Fiction,
   

corrections) in Vol. 23, Nos. 1-2 (1990), pp. 141-65.

2. 
   “Determination and Consciousness in Marx,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy,
   

2. 
   “Is it Immaterial that there’s a ‘Material’ in ‘Historical Materialism’?,” Inquiry,
   

2. 
   “A New Old Meaning of ‘Ideology,’” Dialogue, Vol. XXVIII, No. 3 (Autumn 1989),
   

2. 
   “Getting out of the Cave: Tension between Democracy and Elitism in Marx’s Theory of
   

pp. 1-50.

2. 
   “Marxism and Caribbean Development: A Contribution to Rethinking,” in Judith
   

School, 1991), pp. 14-54.

Vol. XXIII, No. 4 (Summer 1992), pp. 301-28. Reprinted in Bob Jessop and Russell

Wheatley, eds., Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought: Critical Assessments, vols.

5-8 (New York: Routledge, 1999), Vol. 8: Nature, Culture, Morals, Ethics, pp. 428-54.

14. 
    “Do Black Men Have a Moral Duty to Marry Black Women?,” Journal of Social
    

Reprinted in Larry May, Robert Strikwerda, and Patrick D. Hopkins, eds.,

(Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996), pp. 135-58; reprinted in James A.

Montmarquet and William H. Hardy, eds., Reflections: An Anthology of African-American Philosophy (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2000), pp. 167-82.

15. 
    “Under Class Under Standings,” Ethics, Vol. 104, No. 4 (July 1994), pp. 855-81
    

15. 
    “Marxism, ‘Ideology,’ and Moral Objectivism,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy,
    

15. 
    “Non-Cartesian Sums: Philosophy and the African-American Experience,” Teaching
    

15. 
    “Revisionist Ontologies: Theorizing White Supremacy,” Social and Economic Studies,
    

No. 3 (Sept. 1994), pp. 105-34. Reprinted in Brian Meeks and Folke Lindahl, eds.,

West Indies Press, 2001), pp. 471-98.

15. 
    “Smadditizin’,” Caribbean Quarterly, Special Issue: The Philosophy and Work of Rex
    

15. 
    “Carnal Knowledges: Beyond Rawls and Sandel,” in Samantha Brennan, Tracy Isaacs,
    

15. 
    “Dark Ontologies: Blacks, Jews, and White Supremacy,” in Jane Kneller and Sidney
    

15. 
    “White Right: The Idea of a Herrenvolk Ethics,” in Mills, Blackness Visible (1998),
    

15. 
    “Whose Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass and ‘Original Intent,’” in Bill E. Lawson
    

Blackwell, 1999), pp. 100-42.

15. 
    “The Racial Polity,” in Susan E. Babbitt and Sue Campbell, eds., Racism and Philosophy
    

15. 
    “European Specters,” The Journal of Ethics, Special Issue: Marx and Marxism, Vol. 3,
    

15. 
    “’But What Are You Really?’ The Metaphysics of Race,” in Andrew Light and
    

abridged form) in G. Lee Bowie, Meredith Michaels, and Robert Solomon, eds.,

15. 
    “Race and the Social Contract Tradition,” Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, Special Issue: Race and Democracy, Vol. 6, No. 4
    

15. 
    “White Supremacy and Racial Justice, Here and Now,” in James P. Sterba, ed.,
    

2001), pp. 321-37.

15. 
    “Black Trash,” in Laura Westra and Bill E. Lawson, eds., Faces of Environmental
    

15. 
    “Prophetic Pragmatism as Political Philosophy,” in George Yancy, ed., Cornel West:
    

15. 
    “Red Shift: Politically Embodied/Embodied Politics,” in George Yancy, ed.,
    

15. 
    “White Supremacy,” in Tommy L. Lott and John P. Pittman, eds., A Companion to African-American Philosophy (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003), pp. 269-81. Reprinted in a somewhat revised version under the title “White Supremacy as Sociopolitical System: A Philosophical Perspective,” in Ashley W. Doane and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, eds., White Out: The Continuing Significance of Racism (New York: Routledge, 2003),
    

34. 
    “Racial Exploitation and the Wages of Whiteness,” in Michael T. Martin and Marilyn
    

Amanda E. Lewis, eds., The Changing Terrain of Race and Ethnicity (New York: Russell Sage, 2004), pp. 235-62; abridged version translated into Italian as “Lo sfruttamento razziale e le ‘rendite’ della whiteness” and reprinted in Rivista Trimestrale di Scienza dell’Amministrazione (an Italian public policy journal), Special Issue: “’Razza’, discriminazioni, istituzioni,” ed. Thomas Casadei, no. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 2007), pp. 67-85.

34. 
    “Philosophies/Philosophy?: An African-American Perspective,” APA Newsletter on
    

Cheryl Hughes, ed., Truth and Objectivity in Social Ethics, Social Philosophy Today, Vol. 18 (selected proceedings from the 2001 annual meeting of the North American Society for Social Philosophy) (Charlottesville, VA: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2003), pp. 9-29.

37. 
    “’Ideal Theory’ as Ideology,” in Peggy DesAutels and Margaret Urban Walker, eds.,
    

37. 
    “Kant’s Untermenschen,” in Andrew Valls, ed., Race and Racism in Modern
    

eds., Race and the Foundations of Knowledge: Cultural Amnesia in the Academy

(Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2006), pp. 211-51. Excerpts reprinted in Lisa Gannett, ed., Echoes from the Cave: Philosophical Conversations since Plato (Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press Canada, 2014), pp. 477-88.

40. 
    “Rawls on Race,” in Marina Paola Banchetti-Robino and Clevis Ronald Headley, eds.,
    

pp. 120-48.

45. 
    “The Domination Contract,” in Daniel I. O’Neill, Mary Lyndon Shanley, and Iris
    

Carole Pateman (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008),

pp. 49-74. Translated into Portuguese as “O contrato de dominação” and reprinted in

Meritum, revista de Direito da Universidade FUMEC (a Brazilian law journal), Vol. 8, No. 2 (July-December 2013), pp. 15-70.
46. “Racial Liberalism,” an invited lead article (one of two) for a special issue of the

PMLA (Publications of the Modern Language Association of America) on “Comparative

Racialization,” Vol. 123, No. 5 (October 2008), pp. 1380-97. Reprinted (in abridged

form) in Omid Payrow Shabani and Monique Deveaux, eds., Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy: Texts and Cases (Don Mills, ON: Oxford University Press Canada, 2014), pp. 331-40.
47. “Rawls on Race/Race in Rawls,” The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol. XLVII (2009) annual supplement of the proceedings of the University of Memphis Spindel Conference, “Race, Racism, and Liberalism in the Twenty-First Century,” ed.

Bill E. Lawson, pp. 161-84.

(the first part) online June 16, 2015 on the website of “Open Democracy: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery.”

Bloodsworth-Lugo and Dan Flory, eds., Race, Philosophy, and Film (New York: Routledge, 2013), pp. 151-65.

pp. 19-41.

Charles W. Mills, and Silvia Sebastiani, eds., Simianization: Apes, Gender, Class,

Critical Philosophy of Race: Beyond the USA, ed. Nathaniel Tobias Coleman and

Albert Atkin.
70. “Critical Philosophy of Race,” forthcoming in Herman Cappelen, Tamar Szabo Gendler, and John Hawthorne, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology.
71. “A Time for Dignity,” forthcoming in Remy Debes, ed., Dignity (Oxford University Press).
72. “Philosophy and the Racial Contract,” forthcoming in Naomi Zack, ed., The Oxford Handbook on Philosophy and Race.
73. “Quobna Ottobah Cugoano: Black Radical Heretic or Black Radical Liberal?,”

forthcoming in Clinton Hutton, ed., Black Radical Thought, Pedagogy and Praxis:

pp. 191-201 (reply to a symposium on The Racial Contract).