Cornel West is the author of numerous critically acclaimed scholarly books on the role of religion, philosophy, race, class, and gender in American society including Prophecy Deliverance!: An Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity (1982), The Ethical Dimensions of Marxist Thought (1991), Race Matters (1994), Democracy Matters: Winning the Fight Against Imperialism (2005), and Black Prophetic Fire (2014). He is the recipient of the American Book Award and has been awarded more than 20 honorary degrees. Dr. West is Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University. He has also taught at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, Harvard, and the University of Paris. After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard in three years, he obtained his MA and PhD in Philosophy at Princeton. On Tuesday, March 6 at 5:30 p.m., Dr. Cornel West gave a talk presented by the Cogut Institute for the Humanities as part of the PITH (Politics in the Humanities) series. The event was co-sponsored by the Office of the President, the Office of the Provost, and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America.

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