Anthony Bogues

• E-mail: barrymore_bogues@brown.edu
• Department: Research

Anthony Bogues is a writer, scholar , curator and the  author/ editor of 11 books in the fields of political thought/ theory, African and African Diasporic intellectual history and Caribbean Art. His current book is Blowing the Abeng : Radical Caribbean Thought and Praxis (2027). He is currently working on a manuscript titled Black Critique a global history of black political thought and co-editing some of the unpublished writings of Sylvia Wynter, as well as writing the biography of the Haitian artist, Andre Pierre, and working with the Haitian Artist, Edouard Duval Carrie on an art historical book on the Haitian Revolution.  He is the Asa Messer professor of Humanities and Africana Studies and professor in the department of History of Art and Architecture at Brown University. He is a visiting professor of African and African Diaspora Thought at the Free University of Amsterdam as well as a visiting professor and curator at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa and was recently appointed as a Distinguished professor at Large at the Africa Institute in Sharjah, UAE. He is the convenor of the UNCESCO project, “Mapping Global Anti-Black Racism. “And was most recently the curator of the art documentary, This Life: Black Life in the Time of the Now which premiered in December 2023. at Art Basel in Miami.   He is the inaugural director of the RJ Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice at Brown University where he has received numerous awards for his scholarship and research   Bogues has curated / co- curated art shows in the Caribbean, South Africa and the USA.  He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from the University of the West Indies where his thesis on CLR James was supervised by the late Hon Rex Nettleford and Prof. Rupert Lewis.Bogues is an associate editor of the Caribbean journal BIM and sits on the board of the Center for the Arts, Port Au Prince, Haiti. He is the co- convenor and co-curator  of the Global Cuatoral Project a curatorial and exhibition project on the global history of racial slavery and colonialism   with the National African American Museum of History and Culture at the Smithsonian. He is currently working with Pepijn Brandon on a joint project between ISSH the Simmons center on Race, Slavery and Capitalism.