Iziah Topete Joins Philosophy Faculty

Iziah Topete (ABD, Penn State) joins the department as an Assistant Professor. Iziah specializes in critical philosophy of race and modern philosophy. His work engages political questions concerning domination, slavery, and race in modern figures such as Hobbes and Leibniz. He is currently working on a manuscript on Ottobah Cugoano's political philosophy. Professor Topete will be spending 2024-2025 on research fellowship at Dartmouth College.