Anthony Sean Neal
Anthony Sean Neal In 2021, Dr. Neal was awarded the title Beverly B. and Gordon W. Gulmon Dean’s Eminent Scholar. Dr. Neal is an author and an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Mississippi State University. Dr. Neal is a Fellow of the American Institute of Philosophical and Cultural Thought. He is also a Fellow of the Shackouls Honors College. He is a 2019 inductee into the Morehouse College Collegium of Scholars. Dr. Neal received his masters at Mercer University and his doctorate in Humanities with a concentration in African American Philosophy and Religion from Clark Atlanta  University. His main research areas include Aesthetics, Africana Philosophy (African American Modern Era, NeoClassical African Philosophy), Critical Theory, Neo-Platonism, Philosophy of Religion. Dr. Neal is a specialist on the philosophy of Howard Thurman and the Modern Era of the African American Freedom Struggle (1896-1975).Dr. Neal is also a past president of the Mississippi Philosophical Association.