He specializes in critical theorizing and decolonial thought, and is interested in the epistemological basis and ethico-political implications of ethnic studies and related fields or projects, such as Africana Studies, Gender and Women Studies, and indigenous universities in and outside the United States. Dr. Maldonado-Torres has been Co-Chair of the Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean Group at the American Academy of Religion, and has served in the board of the Hispanics Group at the American Philosophical Association. He is President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association, and is one of the organizers and signatories of the initiative to create a Latina/o Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States. Read more…