Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Political Theory
Areas of Interest
• Black Political Thought
• Decolonial Thought
• Contemporary Social & Political Thought
• Critical Race Theory
• Africana Studies
Biography
Derefe Kimarley Chevannes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, specializing in Black Political Theory. His research centers on Black liberation and Black radical thought in the modern world, writing at the intersection of Political Theory and Black Studies. Dr. Chevannes has published widely in journals including Perspectives on Politics, Political Research Quarterly, PS: Political Science & Politics, Philosophy & Global Affairs, The CLR James Journal, Critical Philosophy of Race, Theory & Event, among others, as well as book chapters published in several edited volumes. His work interrogates the racial logics of colonial modernity and mobilizes Africana thought as a transformative intellectual tradition for critically rethinking the human condition.