DOUGLAS FICEK
Contact:
University of New Haven
300 Boston Post Rd.
West Haven, CT 06516
Office: 203-932-1177
Email: contact@douglasficek.com
Areas of Specialization:
Philosophy of Race
Africana Philosophy
Philosophy of Existence
Social and Political Philosophy
Areas of Competence:
Feminist Theory
Philosophy of Law
Philosophy of Religion
Theoretical and Applied Ethics
Education:
Ph.D. in Philosophy, Temple University, August 2013
Dissertation: "Man Is a Yes: Fanon, Liberation, and the Playful Politics of Philosophical Archaeology
Committee: Lewis R. Gordon (advisor), Jane Anna Gordon, Owen Ware, and Linda MartÃn Alcoff (external reader)
M.A. in African-American Studies, Columbia University, May 2003
Thesis: "C.L.R. James and Religion
Advisor: Manning Marable
B.A. in Philosophy, Iowa State University, December 2000
Minors: African-American Studies, English, and Latin
Academic Employment:
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of New Haven, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Fall 2014-Present
Adjunct Instructor, Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University, Newark, Spring 2010 and Fall 2011
Adjunct Instructor, School of New Resources, The College of New Rochelle, Fall 2009 and Spring 2010
Substitute Instructor (full-time), Department of Art, Music, and Philosophy, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Fall
2007-Summer 2009
Graduate Instructor, Department of Philosophy, Temple University, Fall 2005-Spring 2008
Adjunct Instructor, Center for Ethnic Studies, Borough of Manhattan Community College, Spring 2004 and Fall 2010-
Present
Adjunct Instructor, Department of Art, Music, and Philosophy, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Spring 2004-Summer
2007 and Fall 2009-Present
Adjunct Instructor, Experiential, Theoretical, and Cultural Studies Department, Boricua College, Fall 2003 and Spring
2004
Adjunct Instructor, Humanities Department, LaGuardia Community College, Fall 2003 and Spring 2004
Adjunct Instructor, School of Career and Applied Sciences, Touro College, Spring 2003 and Fall 2003
Publications:
"Review of Civil Disobedience and the Politics of Identity: When We Should Not Get Along by Jason D. Hill, in Notre
Dame Philosophical Reviews (February 2014)
"Reflections on Fanon and Petrification, in Living Fanon: Global Perspectives, ed. Nigel C. Gibson (New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2011)
"On Familial and Socio-Political Possibilities, review essay on Family Matters: Feminist Concepts in African Philosophy
of Culture by Nkiru Uwechia Nzegwu, in Philosophy & Social Criticism, Volume 37, Number 8 (October 2011)
"Candide's Legacy, in The Onion and Philosophy, ed. Sharon M. Kaye (Chicago: Open Court, 2011)
"Distinction without Difference, review essay on The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender
Discourses, in Philosophy & Social Criticism, Volume 32, Number 4 (June 2006)
"Rawls, Race, and Reparations, in Radical Philosophy Review, Volume 5, Numbers 1 and 2 (Fall 2003)
"Humanism: African-American Liberation (A)theology, in Free Inquiry, Volume 21, Number 4 (Fall 2001)
"College Students Talk Politics: Revisited, in Kettering Exchange (Fall 2000)
Presentations:
"Privileging Ethics: A Fanonian Critique," Georgia College and State University, 12/2013
"Freire and Fanon: From Philosophical Anthropology to Decolonial Liberation," Shifitng the Geography of Reason X:
Exploring Decoloniality at the Dawn of Our Second Decade, The 10th Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical
Association, Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe, 11/2013
"Themes in Existentialism, The ICJE Summer Seminar in Philosophy, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York,
NY, 7/2013
"Petrification and Philosophical Archaeology: Some Reflections on Fanonian Liberation, Shifting the Geography of
Reason IX: Racial Capitalism and the Creole Discourses of Native-, Indo-, Afro-, and Euro-Caribbeans, The 9th Annual
Meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical Association, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad, 7/2012
"The Pitfalls of Petrification: Fanon and the Politics of Philosophical Archaeology," Philosophy Born of Struggle XVI:
Race, Religion, and Social Transformation, Fayetteville State University, 10/2009
"Rejecting Theodicy: From Candide to The Onion," The 3rd Annual Conference of the Lighthearted Philosophers Society,
10/2009
"The Pitfalls of Petrification: Fanon and the Politics of Philosophical Archaeology," Shifting the Geography of Reason VI:
Migrations and Diasporas, The 6th Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical Association, University of Miami,
8/2009
"Phenomenology and Philosophy of Liberation: Latin American and Africana, The 7th Annual Meeting of the
Phenomenology Roundtable, Marquette University, 6/2007
"Reparations in an Africana Philosophy of Liberation, Shifting the Geography of Reason III: Aesthetics, Science, and
Language, The 3rd Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical Association, Concordia University, 8/2006
"Outing Frankfurt: An Existential Phenomenology of Bullshit, The 6th Annual Meeting of the Phenomenology
Roundtable, Temple University, 6/2006
"Reparations in an Africana Philosophy of Liberation, Works in Progress Series, Department of Philosophy, Temple
University, 11/2005
"Reparations in an Africana Philosophy of Liberation, Philosophy Born of Struggle 2005: Philosophy of Liberation, The
New School, 10/2005
"The Humanism of Africana Philosophy," Shifting the Geography of Reason II: Gender, Religion, and Science, The 2nd
Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical Association, Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe,
6/2005
"Theodicean Sadomasochism, The 5th Annual Meeting of the Phenomenology Roundtable, DePaul University, 5/2005
"The Humanism of Africana Philosophy, Works in Progress Series, Department of Philosophy, Temple University, 1/2005
"C.L.R. James and Religion, Conversations, Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University,
5/2003
"Reparations and the Two Veils, Forty Acres and a Mule: The Case for Black Reparations, Columbia University, 11/2002
"Multicultural Learning Communities, with J. Herman Blake and Douglas Gruenewald, The 82nd Annual Meeting of the
National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, Indiana University, 3/2000
Professional Activities:
Co-Translator, with Rosario Torres-Guevara, "«Quand je suis lá, elle n'y est pas»: Sobre el razonamiento en negro y la
inequietud del colapso en la filosofÃa y las ciencias humanas by Lewis R. Gordon, in CS: dinà micas regionales y sociales,
numero 7 (Junio 2011)
Organizer, The 8th Annual Phenomenology Roundtable, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 5/2008
Moderator, "Theorizing Immigration and Diaspora, Shifting the Geography of Reason III: Aesthetics, Science, and
Language, The 3rd Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical Association, Concordia University, 8/2006
Co-Organizer, with Joan Jasak, The Sixth Annual Phenomenology Roundtable, Temple University, 6/2006
Moderator, "Black Heretics, Black Prophets by Anthony Bogues, Shifting the Geography of Reason II: Gender, Religion,
and Science, The 2nd Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical Association, Centro de Estudios Avanzados de
Puerto Rico y el Caribe, 6/2005
Awards and Honors:
Graduate Fellow, Institute for the Study of Race and Social Thought, Temple University, 2004-2013
Fellow, The C.L.R. James Institute, 2003
Socrates Scholarship, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Iowa State University, 1998
Professional Memberships:
American Philosophical Association
Caribbean Philosophical Association
Radical Philosophy Association
Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy
Courses Taught:
The African-American Experience, Touro College (1 section)
Africana Philosophy, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (3 sections)
The Big Questions, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (1 section)
Comparative Ethnic Studies, Borough of Manhattan Community College (1 section)
Critical Thinking, John Jay College of Criminal Justice and LaGuardia Community College (2 sections)
Death, Dying, and Society, John Jay College (4 sections)
Ethical Foundations of the Just Society, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (2 sections)
Ethics and Law, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (at least 10 sections)
Ethnic Groups in the U.S., Touro College (1 section)
Introduction to Ethics, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (1 section)
Introduction to Logic, Temple University (1 section)
Introduction to Philosophy, Boricua College and LaGuardia Community College (3 sections)
Knowing, Being, and Doing: The Philosophical Method and Its Applications, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (at least
42 sections)
Modern Black Political Thought, Borough of Manhattan Community College (7 sections)
Philosophical Challenges to the Individual, Temple University (1 section)
Philosophical Issues of Rights, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (1 section)
Philosophical Visions of American Pluralism, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (1 section)
Philosophy and the African-American Experience, Temple University (3 sections)
Philosophy and the Black Experience, Rutgers University, Newark (2 sections)
Philosophy: East and West, Temple University (1 section)
Other Employment:
Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy, Temple University, Spring 2005
Course: Philosophy and the African-American Experience (with Lewis R. Gordon)
Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy, Temple University, Fall 2004
Course: Themes in Existentialism (with Lewis R. Gordon)
Instructor, After-School Program, Asociación Tepeyac de Nueva York, Summer 2004
Subjects: 5th and 6th Grade English and Math
Instructor, Youth Action Programs and Homes, Inc., Youth Build USA, Spring 2004
Course: Pre-GED English Writing
Research Assistant, Department of Philosophy, Temple University, 2004-2007
Task: Reviewed scholarly articles (with Lewis R. Gordon and Carol Gould)
Instructor, Adult and Continuing Education, City College of New York, Summer 2003
Course: College-Prep English Writing
Instructor, Educational Opportunity Center in Manhattan, Borough of Manhattan Community College, 2003-2004
Course: Pre-GED English Writing
Research Assistant, Africana Criminal Justice Project, Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia
University, Fall 2002
Task: Prepared a bibliography of black prison writers (with Manning Marable)
Research Assistant, Malcolm X Project, Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University, 2001-
2002
Task: Wrote annotations for an online version of The Autobiography of Malcolm X (with Manning Marable)
Research Assistant, African-American Studies, Iowa State University, Summer 2001
Task: Conducted interviews with professors on learning and study strategies (with J. Herman Blake)
Teaching Assistant, African-American Studies, Iowa State University, Spring 2001
Course: Introduction to African-American Studies (with J. Herman Blake)
Robert G. Chollar Summer Research Assistant, Kettering Foundation, Summer 2000
Task: Wrote an academic article on the political attitudes of college students
Undergraduate Peer Mentor, Multicultural Learning Community Program, Iowa State University, 1999-2000
Subjects: African-American Studies and Philosophy
Grader/Teaching Assistant, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Iowa State University, 1998-2000
Courses: Introduction to Philosophy and Introduction to Ethics (with Errol Katayama, Heimir Geirsson, and Charles
Starkey)
Tutor, Academic Success Center, Iowa State University, 1997-1999
Subjects: English, Latin, and Philosophy
References:
Lewis R. Gordon
Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies
Europhilosophy Chair at Toulouse University
Nelson Mandela Distinguished Visiting Professor at Rhodes University
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269
Main: 860-486-4416
Fax: 860-486-0387
Email: lewis.gordon@uconn.edu
Jane Anna Gordon
Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies
University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT 06269
Main: 860-486-2440
Fax: 860-486-3347
Email: jane.gordon@uconn.edu
Linda MartÃn Alcoff
Professor of Philosophy
Hunter College
695 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10065
Main: 212-772-5081
Fax: 212-650-3675
Email: lmartina@hunter.cuny.edu
John P. Pittman
Associate Professor of Philosophy
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
524 West 59th St.
New York, NY 10019
Main: 212-237-8331
Fax: 212-237-8333
Email: jpittman@jjay.cuny.edu
Catherine Kemp
Associate Professor of Philosophy
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
524 West 59th St.
New York, NY 10019
Main: 212-237-8908
Fax: 212-237-8333
Email: ckemp@jjay.cuny.edu