DEPARTMENT OF BLACK STUDIES

Research Interests:

Social and Political Theory; Africana Philosophy; Existential Phenomenology; Black Political Thought; Critical Theory; Postcolonial Studies; Social Ontology; Psychoanalysis; Social Epidemiology; Biomedical Ethics; Aesthetics and Philosophy in Film, Literature, and Music

Biography:

Stephen Sola Ogunsakin is a political theorist and PhD student in the Department of Black Studies at Northwestern University, where he is a Mellon Cluster Fellow in the Critical Theory Program. His research focuses on political subjectivity within postcolonial governance, with particular attention to the conditions of agency and emancipation, the production of social and political intelligibility, and the problem of sovereignty. Stephen holds a B.A. in Philosophy with First Class Honors from Ekiti State University, an M.A. in Political Philosophy with Distinction from the University of Fort Hare, and an M.A. in Political Science, with a concentration in Political Theory, from the University of Memphis. His M.A. dissertation in Political Philosophy examined the ethical dimensions of intersubjectivity in Frantz Fanon’s psycho-politics, focusing on self-subjectification and the problem of entangled Black agency in the African postcolony. His work has appeared in the American Philosophical Association’s Black Issues in Philosophy series and is forthcoming with Vernon Press and Brill. He is a member of the Caribbean Philosophical Association.