Narratives of Freedom: The Global Entanglements between Enlightenment-era Slave Narratives and Political Philosophy

This fall, Professor Ronald R. Sundstrom will join us as a RICH fellow. Professor Sundstrom is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Francisco and a leading scholar in political philosophy, urban policy, and philosophy of race (and the related areas of racism, xenophobia, and mixed-race identity). During his fellowship at Radboud, he will work on a book-length study on a key thinker in African American political theory: Frederick Douglass. The project, entitled “The Global Dimensions of Frederick Douglass’s Abolitionism and Political Philosophy,” investigates the life and writings of abolitionist thinker Frederick Douglass, and offers a philosophical and cultural analysis of the connections between the Anglo-American abolition movement, formerly enslaved Black Americans who were leading figures in abolitionism, and their influence on Continental European abolition movements. More information on Prof. Sundstrom.