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Sabeen Ahmed serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Swarthmore College, where her work critically interrogates the entanglement of philosophy with white supremacist racial capitalism and imperial structures. Her positionality-centered approach challenges traditional philosophical frameworks through decolonial and anti-imperialist lenses.
Her educational background includes:
- Ph.D. in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University as a Provost’s Graduate Fellow, with dissertation "Coloniality and the Racial Ontopolitics of Law: Foucault’s Juridical Power Reconsidered" supervised by Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, Lucius Outlaw, Jr., Paul C. Taylor, Kelly Oliver, and Falguni Sheth
- B.A. in Philosophy (High Distinction) and Spanish from the University of Virginia, thesis titled "Reason and Revelation in the Foundational Political Philosophy of Abu Nasr al-Farabi"
Professor Ahmed specializes in Political Philosophy of Race, Philosophy of Law, Colonial/Imperial Studies, and Foucault Studies, while maintaining competence in Ancient and Medieval philosophy, Marxist theory, 20th-Century Continental Philosophy, and Critical Phenomenology. Her research actively centers historically marginalized perspectives to dismantle philosophy's historical complicity in imperial systems, particularly through analyses of juridical power and racial ontologies. This commitment extends to her pedagogy, which recontextualizes canonical texts through antiracist and decolonial frameworks.
