Aaron Kamugisha (NHC Fellow, 2024–25)

Aaron Kamugisha is a scholar of the social, political and cultural thought of the African diaspora, and is the Ruth Simmons Professor of Africana Studies at Smith College. He serves on the editorial boards of the following journals: Small Axe: A Journal of Caribbean Criticism, Social and Economic Studies, and The Journal of West Indian Literature. He is also the co-executive director of the Race and Resistance book series with Peter Lang Publishers, and an inaugural member of the Other Universals transnational research collective. His primary intellectual and research interests encompass the intellectual history and the social, political and cultural thought of the African diaspora. His latest book, Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition, was published by Indiana University Press, with a simultaneous edition by University of Witwatersrand Press in 2019. He is the editor of eight edited books and seven special issues of journals on Caribbean and Africana thought.

Selected Publications

• Collis-Buthelezi, Victoria, and Aaron Kamugisha, eds. The Caribbean Race Reader: From Colonialism to Anticolonial Thought. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2024. Forthcoming.
• Kamugisha, Aaron, ed. Special issue of Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 64 (March 2021) on Caribbean Intellectual History.
• Kamugisha, Aaron. Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019.
• Hume, Yanique, and Aaron Kamugisha, eds. Caribbean Popular Culture: Power, Politics and Performance. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Press, 2016.
• Kamugisha, Aaron, ed. Caribbean Political Thought: The Colonial State to Caribbean Internationalisms. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Press, 2013.
• Hume, Yanique, and Aaron Kamugisha, eds. Caribbean Cultural Thought: From Plantation to Diaspora. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle Press, 2013.