Research Interests
African American PhilosophyCritical Race TheoryPhilosophy of RaceBlack Male Studies
Opportunities
Work Study Positions Available: No
Grant Funded Positions Available: No
Course-Credit Research Opportunities Available: No
Volunteer Research Positions Available: No
Biography
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, Dr. 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.
I am broadly interested in questions and substantive debates in the areas of philosophy such as social epistemology, history of philosophy, Ethics/Applied Ethics, and Socio-Political philosophy, in so far as they are focused on understanding the nature of man and how knowledge formation can lead to both individual and social transformation.
My primary research interest interests contribute to discourses in Africana philosophy, Critical Race Theory, and Critical Gender/Sexuality Studies (with specific expertise on the gendered and racialized experience of subordinated males within society), as well as contemporary discussions on Religion & Racial Reconciliation in America. My work in these areas, explore the intersection of race, ethnicity, class, and gender in the analysis of the existential conditions of members of marginalized populations, whose group identities and ethnic affiliations largely inform how they navigate social barriers or constructed boundaries within society.
