Cheikh Thiam

Dr. Thiam is a graduate of Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, Senegal. He received his M.A. in French from the University of Provence in France and his M.A. and Ph.D. in comparative literature from Binghamton University in New York. Earlier in his career, he was an associate professor of African American Studies, African Studies, and French at The Ohio State University. He is the author of Return to the Kingdom of Childhood: Re-envisioning the Legacy and Philosophical Relevance of Negritude (Ohio State University Press, 2014). Dr. Thiam has also served as editor of Negritude Reloaded, a special issue of the Journal on African Philosophy, associate editor of Research in African Literatures, and has published numerous articles in literature and philosophy journals such as Ethiopiques, West Africa Review, La Revue Africaine, La Revue du Graat, French Review, Research in African Literature, Dalhousie French Review, and Journal on African Philosophy. He recently completed the manuscript of a second book, "Epistemologies from the South: Negritude, Modernity, and the Idea of Africa. Dr. Thiam was also the Academic Dean for Africa South of the Sahara at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont, where he directed one of the largest portfolios of programs in Africa of any American institution.