An’s research focuses on the intersection of race and coloniality as they manifest in philosophical and political responses to modernity and religion in the Americas. He has written articles and book chapters on Latin American philosophy and religion, liberation theology, Afro-Caribbean poeticism, and continental philosophy. An is also the author of The Decolonial Abyss: Mysticism and Cosmopolitics from the Ruins, published by Fordham University Press (2016).