Nigel Gibson
Professor, School of Arts and Interdisciplinary Studies
Dr. Nigel C. Gibson is an expert in the fields of Africana thought, postcolonialism, and African studies, and is recognized as one of the leading scholars of psychiatrist and political philosopher Frantz Fanon. He has presented his work in Africa, Europe, and the Americas, has spoken at the United Nations, and appeared on The History Channel.
Dr. Gibson is author of Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination (2003), winner of the Caribbean Philosophy Association Prize; Fanonian Practices in South Africa: From Steve Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo (2011); and Frantz Fanon, Combat Breathing (2024); and co-author (with Roberto Beneduce) of Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics (2017).
He is the editor of Rethinking Fanon (1999), Challenging Hegemony: Social Movements and the Quest for a New Humanism in Post-Apartheid South Africa (2006), Living Fanon (2011), and Fanon Today: Reason and Revolt of the Wretched of the Earth (2021), and co-editor of Contested Terrains: Contemporary Africa in Focus (2002), Adorno: A Critical Reader (2002), and Biko Lives (2008).
He currently is the general editor of the Journal of Asian and African Studies.
Courses
- Honors Thesis
- First Year Seminar: Power and Privilege
- Key Contemporary Thinkers: Marx
- Global Social Movements
- Key Contemporary Thinkers: Fanon
- Post-Colonial Cultures