Nelson Maldonado Torres, Ph.D. Brown University, is Assistant Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and former Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University. He works on theories and philosophies that address problems and questions related to the intersection of knowledge, ethics and politics on the one hand, and race, gender, nation, and empire on the other, particularly in connection with critical theory, phenomenology, postcolonial studies, and modern religious thought. He has published several articles and is working on two book-length projects: Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity (under contract with Duke University Press), and Fanonian Meditations. He is also the guest editor of this issue of Caribbean Studies on Caribbean philosophy, as well as the coordinator of a web dossier entitled Post-Continental Philosophy, forthcoming in the web journal Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise. In 2005, he co-edited with Ramón Grosfoguel and José David Saldívar the book Latin@s in the World System: Decolonization Struggles in the 21st U.S. Empire (Paradigm Press).
