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Assistant Professor

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2292 Social Science and Humanities

I research political philosophy, Africana philosophy, and modern European philosophy, especially Kant, Hegel, and Marx. My current research projects include a book on W.E.B. Du Bois's theory of democracy that tackles why grassroots democratic practices led by historically excluded groups can help philosophers rethink the requirements of justice—namely, what the content of justice is about and how best to realize it in the circumstances of injustice. I am also working on issues relating to slavery, exploitation, and race in the 19th and 20th century U.S.

Check out my CV here: Basevich CV.pdf

Education and Degree(s)
  • Ph.D. in Philosophy, The Graduate Center, CUNY 2017
  • BA in Philosophy, Hunter College, CUNY 2011
Honors and Awards
  • Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow at Princeton’s University Center for Human Values 2022-23
Research Interests & Expertise
  • Political philosophy
  • Africana Philosophy
  • Modern European Philosophy
Publications
  • 2024. “What is a Black Radical Kantianism without Du Bois? On Method, Principle, and Abolition Democracy,” Journal of Social Philosophy
  • 2024. “Democracy’s Values and Ideals: A Duboisian Defense,” The Monist
  • 2023. “W.E.B. Du Bois,” in Manjeet Ramgotra and Simon Choat (Eds.) Reconsidering Political Thinkers. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • 2022. “The Promise and Limit of Kant’s Theory of Justice: On Race, Gender, and the Structural Domination of Laborers,” Kantian Review 27 (4): 541-55.
  • 2022. “Self-Respect and Self-Segregation: A Du Boisian Challenge to Kant and Rawls,” Social Theory & Practice 48 (3): 403–427.
  • 2022. “What is an Anti-Racist Philosophy of Race and History? A New Look at Kant, Hegel, and Du Bois,” Critical Philosophy of Race 10 (1): 71-89.
  • 2021. “A Duboisian Constructivist Theory of Justice,” Journal of Moral Philosophy 19 (2): 170-195.
  • 2021. “What it’s Like to Grow up Poor, but Fall in Love with Philosophy: A Notice to the Profession in Case it Forgot,” APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 20 (3): 15-19.
  • 2020. W.E.B. Du Bois: The Lost and The Found. Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • 2020. “W.E.B. Du Bois’s Socialism: On the Social Epistemology of Democratic Reason,” Philosophical Topics 48 (2): 23-49.
  • 2020. “Reckoning with Kant on Race,” The Philosophical Forum 51 (3): 221-45.
  • 2019. “W.E.B. Du Bois’s Critique of American Democracy in the Jim Crow Era: On the Limitations of Rawls and Honneth,” Journal of Political Philosophy 27 (3): 318-340.
  • 2018. “W.E.B. Du Bois’s Critique of Radical Reconstruction (1865-77): A Hegelian Approach to American Modernity,” Philosophy & Social Criticism 45 (2): 168-85.
Membership and Service
  • Faculty Coordinator for Philosophical Gender Minoritized Students (GeMS) at UC, Davis
  • Editor of Special Issue on “W.E.B. Du Bois and Democracy” in The Monist
  • Editor of Special Issue in Honor of the 25th Anniversary of Charles Mills’s The Racial Contract for Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
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