Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education

Lucius Turner Outlaw Jr. , formerly T. Wistar Brown Professor of Philosophy at Haverford College (Haverford, Pennsylvania), is professor of philosophy and of African American and diaspora studies, and associate provost for undergraduate education at Vanderbilt University with responsibilities for admissions, financial aid, the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Cultural Center, the Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center, the Office of Honors Scholarships and ENGAGE, Ingram and Chancellor's Scholars Programs, Posse Scholars Program, the English Language Center, Army and Naval ROTC Programs. (Outlaw has also been a member of the faculties of Fisk University and Morgan State University; a visiting professor at Spelman College, Howard University, and Hamilton College. For the 1996-98 academic years Outlaw was the David S. Nelson Professor of Boston College.)

Outlaw teaches, researches, and writes about African philosophy, African American philosophy, Marx, critical social theory, social and political philosophy and the history of philosophy in the "West." Born in Starkville , Miss., he is a graduate of Fisk University (B.A., Philosophy, 1967, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa) and of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences of Boston College (Ph.D., Philosophy, 1972). His essays have been published in Philosophical Forum, Journal of Social Philosophy, Man and World, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, The Journal of Ethics, and a number of anthologies. A collection of several of his essays, On Race and Philosophy, was published by Routledge (1996). Another book, Critical Social Theory in the Interests of Black Folk, was published by Roman & Littlefield (2005).

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Contact:
Lucius T. Outlaw Jr.
221 Kirkland Hall
615.322.5041