PROF ANTHONY BOGUES

BA Political Science and Literature, Union Institute & University, Cincinatti, Ohio (USA); MA ad eundem, Brown University, Rhode Island (USA); PhD Political Theory, University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica. Honorary D Litt School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, London (UK).

Prof Bogues is a writer, scholar, curator, and the Inaugural Director of the Ruth J Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University, Rhode Island (USA). He is currently the Asa Messer Professor of Humanities and Africana Studies at Brown University, where he is also an affiliated faculty member of the departments of Political Science, Modern Culture and Media, History of Art and Architecture.

Prof Bogues’s research interests include literary and cultural history; radical political thought; critical theory; Caribbean and African politics; as well as Haitian, Caribbean, and African Diasporic art and curatorial studies.

His publications include Black Heretics and Black Prophets: Radical Political Intellectuals (2003); Empire of Liberty: Power, Freedom and Desire (2010); From Revolution in the Tropics to Imagined Landscapes: the Art of Edouard Duval-Carrié (2014); and Metamorphosis: The Art of Edoaurd Duval-Carrié (2017). Most recently, Bogues co-authored In Slavery’s Wake: Making Black Freedom in the World (2024) with Paul Gardullo and Johanna Obenda.

Bogues was the co-editor (with Raffaele Laudani) of a special issue on Black Thought, in 2017, of the Italian journal Filosofia Politica 31(3). Additionally, Prof Bogues has co/curated shows in the United States, South Africa and France. He is a member of the editorial collective for the journal boundary 2 and was an honorary professor at the Centre for Africana Studies at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa (2006-2017). Bogues is a member of the scientific committee of Le Centre d’Art in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the convenor of the international project: A Global Project. His most recent curated exhibition was the co-curation of In Slavery’s Wake at the National African American Museum of History and Culture (USA, 2025).

Prof Anthony Bogues joined VIAD in 2019.