OLÚFẸ́MI O. TÁÍWÒ
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Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University
 
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Ethical Theory, Social/Political Philosophy, Africana Philosophy
AREAS OF COMPETENCE: Feminist Philosophy, Normative Ethics
 
EDUCATION


University of California, Los Angeles, CA                                                                                                                                    August 2018
PhD, Philosophy

Indiana University, College of Arts and Sciences, Bloomington, IN                                                                               September 2008-May 2012
Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts in Political Science
Minors in Economics and Mathematics                                                 
 
BOOKS
 
Elite Capture, Haymarket Books, Book Manuscript (pre-production)
Reconsidering Reparations, Oxford University Press, November 2021
 
ARTICLES
 
O. Táíwò (forthcoming). “Vice Signaling”. Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy
 
O. Táíwò, A. Fehrenbacher, A. Cooke (2021) “Material Insecurity, Racial Capitalism, and Public Health”. Hastings Center Report
 
O. Táíwò & S. Talati (2021). “Who Are the Engineers? Solar Geoengineering and Justice”. Global Environmental Politics.
 
J. Jebari, O. Táíwò, et al. (2021) “From Moral Hazard to Risk-Response Feedback”, Climate Risk Management
 
O. Táíwò (2021). “Two Themes in Decolonizing Universalism” (Invited Symposium on Serene Khader’s Decolonizing Universalism), Journal of Global Ethics
 
O. Táíwò (2020). “Civility as Self-Determination” (Invited Symposium on Amy Olberding’s The Wrong of Rudeness), Philosophy East and West.
 
O. Táíwò (2020). “Principles for Thinking About Carbon Dioxide Removal in Just Climate Policy”. One Earth
 
O. Táíwò (2020). “Stoicism (as Emotional Compression) is Emotional Labor”, Feminist Philosophical Quarterly
 
O. Táíwò (2019). “States Are Not Basic Structures” Philosophical papers
 
O. Táíwò (2018). “The Empire Has No Clothes” Disputatio
 
O. Táíwò (2018). “The Man Not and the Dilemmas of Intersectionality” APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience
 
O. Táíwò (2017). “Beware of Schools Bearing Gifts: Miseducation and Trojan Horse Propaganda” Public Affairs Quarterly
 
BOOK REVIEWS
 
O. Táíwò (2020). Review of Groundwork for the Practice of the Good Life: Politics and Ethics at the Intersection of North Atlantic and African Philosophy. Philosophia Africana
 
PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY

C Magazine Symposium
      Curious Criticism (conversation with David Garneau)
The New Yorker                                                                                                                                                                             October 2021
       “Climate Controllers”
The Nation                                                                                                                                                                                      October 2021
        “The Radical Generosity of Charles Mills”
The Guardian                                                                                                                                                                                         June 2021
        “It’s Time To Nationalize Shell”
The Nation                                                                                                                                                                                             May 2021
        “Liberty for Whom?”
The Baffler                                                                                                                                                                                              May 2021
        “Except for the Miracles”
DW                                                                                                                                                                                                          April 2021
        “Undercurrent” podcast and Living Planet newsletter
Quartz                                                                                                                                                                                                     April 2021
        Roundtable on Climate Reparations
Dissent                                                                                                                                                                                                    April 2021
        Roundtable on Climate Reparations
The New Republic                                                                                                                                                                         February 2021
        "Don't Treat Climate Change as a National Security Risk"
Warm Regards (Podcast Interview)                                                                                                                                             February 2021
         “Climate Colonialism with Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò”    
The Nation                                                                                                                                                                                        January 2021
        “Why The Violence Against Women Act Failed Women”
The New Republic                                                                                                                                                                           January 2021
        “Why The Environmental Movement Should Think Locally”
OASIS Classes (Public Lecture)                                                                                                                                                     January 2021
        “Civility and Social Justice”
Black Myths (Podcast Interview)                                                                                                                                                   January 2021
        “The Myth of Trickle Down Blackness with Olúfẹmi Táíwò)
Into the Wild (Podcast Interview)                                                                                                                                                  January 2021
        “Olúfẹmi Táíwò on Climate Colonialism and Reparations”
End of Sport (Podcast Interview)                                                                                                                                              December 2020
        “Constructing New Rooms with Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò”
The Dig (Podcast Interview)                                                                                                                                                     December 2020
        “Identity, Power, and Speech with Olúfẹmi Táíwò”
Spectre Journal                                                                                                                                                                                December 2020
        “What’s New About Racial Capitalism (And What Isn’t)
Profs and Pints (Public Lecture)                                                                                                                                               December 2020
        “What is Racial Capitalism?”
The Philosopher                                                                                                                                                                           December 2020
        “Being in the Room Privilege: Elite Capture and Epistemic Deference”
Foreign Policy                                                                                                                                                                                 October 2020
          “The Case for Climate Reparations” (with Beba Cibralic)
Aeon                                                                                                                                                                                                  October 2020
          “Who Gets to Feel Secure?”
Smithsonian Institute Public Lectures                                                                                                                                        October 2020
          “On Civility”
Smithsonian Institute Public Lectures                                                                                                                                     September 2020
          “Global Climate Justice”
5 Objects (Podcast Interview)                                                                                                                                                        August 2020
        “A Conversation with Olúfẹmi O. Táíwò”
The Nation                                                                                                                                                                                        August 2020
        “Enforcing Eviction”
Dissent                                                                                                                                                                                                August 2020
        “A Response to Michael Walzer”
The Appeal                                                                                                                                                                                              June 2020
        “Cops, Climate, COVID: Why There is Only One Crisis
Dissent                                                                                                                                                                                                     June 2020
        “Power Over the Police”
Boston Review                                                                                                                                                                                       May 2020
        “Identity Politics and Elite Capture”
Al Jazeera                                                                                                                                                                                               April 2020
        “The Coronavirus Failure Will Become Our Climate Failure”
Brooklyn Public Philosophers (Public Lecture hosted by Brooklyn Public Library)                                                                 April 2020
        “The Problem With Identity Politics is Elite Capture”
The Appeal                                                                                                                                                                                             April 2020
        “Coronavirus Lays Bare The Staggering Class Inequalities That Divide America
The New Republic                                                                                                                                                                               April 2020
        “Corporations Are Salivating Over the Coronavirus Pandemic”
Profs and Pints (Public Lecture)                                                                                                                                                        April 2020
        “The Elite Capture of Identity Politics”, cancelled due to COVID-19
Profs and Pints (Public Lecture)                                                                                                                                                  October 2019
        “Climate Colonialism and the Green New Deal”
American Philosophical Association Blog                                                                                                                               September 2019
         “What Incivility Gets Us (And What it Doesn’t)
Carnegie Climate Governance Initiative Blog                                                                                                                         September 2019
        “Climate Colonialism and Large Scale Land Acquisitions”
Profs and Pints (Public Lecture)                                                                                                                                             September 2019
        “Climate Colonialism and the Green New Deal”
The Conversation (republished by Slate, Pacific Standard, et. al)                                                                                                 February 2019
        “How a Green New Deal could exploit developing countries”
The Conversation                                                                                                                                                                             January 2019
        “Capturing carbon to fight climate change is dividing environmentalists” co-written with Holly Jean Buck
 
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS RECEIVED

Doyle Fellowship                                                                                                                                                                                    Fall 2020
       To develop “Global Justice and the Environment” class
Gender+ Justice Initiative                                                                                                                                                                    Fall 2020
        Fellow (to support ongoing work around climate and immigration)
Georgetown Environment Initiative Grant                                                                                                                                        Fall 2019
       Climate Colonialism Workshop
Summer Academic Grant                                                                                                                                                              Summer 2019
       To Develop Reconsidering Reparations Book Proposal (subsequently accepted for contract with Oxford University Press)
 
ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS / INVITED TALKS

American Anthropology Association Conference                                                                                                                   November 2021
     Presidential Roundtable on Reparations, Restitution, and Repair
Colorado College Colloquium                                                                                                                                                    November 2021
       “Subjective Security”
University of Utah Colloquium                                                                                                                                                  November 2021
       “Subjective Security”
Building Green Justice Conference Keynote (Huston-Tillotson University)                                                                        October 2021
      “Reconsidering Reparations”
MIT Colloquium                                                                                                                                                                             October 2021
      “Reconsidering Reparations”
Safra Center on Ethics at Harvard University                                                                                                                            October 2021
       “Reconsidering Reparations”
Global Forum on Democratizing Work                                                                                                                                      October 2021
        Panel on “Lessons to Learn from Experimentation in the Political Arena for Democratizing Work”
Indigenous World View: Intergenerational Ethics and Justice Conference (Concordia University)                                    September 2021
       “More Solidarity, More Problems” (with Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner)
Miami University Colloquium                                                                                                                                                        August 2021
        “Body Count”
Labor and Working-Class History Association Conference                                                                                                           May 2021
       “Racial Capitalism and Labor History” (Panel)
Africana Institute for Creation, Recognition, and Elevation and Philosophy Department (UC Irvine)                                              May 2021
       Panel Discussion of Trends in Africana Studies
UCLA African Philosophies of Language (Keynote Address)                                                                                                 February 2021
         “What Does Philosophy of Language Have to Offer Africa?”
University of Pennsylvania, Andrea Mitchell Center Event                                                                                                     February 2021
         “The Case for Climate Reparations” with Beba Cibralic
Yale Philosophy of Masculinity Seminar (Guest Lecture)                                                                                                     December 2020
         “Stoicism (as Emotional Compression) is Emotional Labor”
Centre of Ethics (University of Toronto)                                                                                                                                       October 2020
          “Compound Crisis: Racial Capitalism, Climate, and Security”
Wharton School of Business                                                                                                                                                             October 2020
          “The Role of Causation in the Economics of Slavery Debate”
Claremont McKenna University Colloquium                                                                                                                             October 2020
          “On Material Security”
Muhlenberg University Colloquium                                                                                                                                        September 2020
         “Climate Apartheid is the Coming Police Violence Crisis”
Yale Political Theory Workshop                                                                                                                                               September 2020
         “The Constructive View of Reparations”
Kennedy Lecture                                                                                                                                                                         September 2020
         “Being in the Room Privilege”
CUNY Graduate Center                                                                                                                                                             September 2020
         “What’s Missing from Reparations Arguments?”
CUNY Graduate Center                                                                                                                                                             September 2020
         “What’s Missing from Reparations Arguments?”
Boston University Colloquium                                                                                                                                                   September 2020
         “Epistemic Deference” this event had been rescheduled from earlier in the year due to COVID-19
American Philosophical Association Pacific Meeting                                                                                                                    April 2020
         Author-Meets-Critics on Amy Olberding’s “The Wrong of Rudeness”, cancelled due to COVID-19
American Comparative Literature Association Conference                                                                                                         March 2020
         Panel on Climate Violence, “Climate Colonialism and Large Scale Land Acquisition”, cancelled due to COVID-19
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Conference                                                                                                                        March 2020
         Author-Meets-Critics on Jennifer Morton’s “Moving Up Without Losing Your Way” cancelled due to COVID-19
American Philosophical Association Central Meeting                                                                                                              February 2020
         Author-Meets-Critics on Serene Khader’s “Decolonizing Universalism”
         Panel Presentation on the Aesthetics of the Self (presenting “Autobiography”)
University of Michigan Colloquium                                                                                                                                               January 2020
         “The Constructive View of Reparations”
The 12th Annual Dupont Summit on Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy                                                  December 2019
          Panelist, “Removing Carbon to Fight Climate Change: Prospects and Perils”
Panel on Environmental Justice at American University                                                                                                      November 2019
          Panelist
New Scenarios and Models for Climate Engineeering Workshop 2                                                                                   November 2019
          Workshop Participant
African Climate Risks Conference                                                                                                                                                October 2019
          “Climate Colonialism and Distributive Justice” and “Climate Colonialism and Carbon Removal”
Rutgers University                                                                                                                                                                                 July 2019
         “The Constructive View of Reparations”
United Nations Human Rights Expert Group Meeting: Reparations, Racial Justice, and Equality                                             May 2019
          “Reconsidering Reparations: Theory and Practice”
Duke University (Kenan Fellows Program)                                                                                                                                      April 2019
         “Climate Colonialism”
Rowan College                                                                                                                                                                                October 2018
         “Reconsidering Reparations”
Washington and Jefferson College                                                                                                                                               October 2018
         “Reconsidering Reparations”
Minorities and Philosophy Georgetown “Understanding Oppression” Conference Keynote Address                                      October 2018
          “Climate Change and Material Politics”
 
ACADEMIC SERVICE
 
               Intramural Affiliations:


African Studies Program
Justice and Peace Studies
Ethics Lab
           Research Fellow
 
               Extramural Affiliations
Corrupt the Youth
           Board Member
Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy (at American University)
           Research Fellow
Carbon180
           Advisory Board Member
Breach Collective
           Board Member
Climate + Community Policy Project
           Project Member
 
               Peer Reviewed for:
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
Mind                                                                                                                                                                                        
Public Affairs Quarterly                                                                                                                                                        
One Earth                                                                                                                                                                                
Ethics                                                                                                                                                                                       
Ergo                                                                                                                                                                                                        
Radical Philosophy                                                                                                                                                                               

Kennedy Institute of Ethics                                                                                                                                                               
Social Philosophy Today                                                                                                                                                      
Critical Philosophy of Race                                                                                                                                                  
Ethics, Policy, and Environment                                                                                                                      
Religion and Gender
Journal of Science and Engineering Ethics
Precollege Philosophy and Public Practice                                                                                                                                                                    
 
At UCLA:
Kennedy Institute of Ethics                                                                                                                                                       December 2017
              Reviewer
UCLA Labor Center Community Scholar                                                                                                                    January 2017-June 2017
Yost Prize in Excellence in Teaching                                                                                                                                         October 2016-
Philosophy of Race and Racism Conference, Oxford University                                                                                                   June 2016
               Conference Organizer
Public Affairs Quarterly                                                                                                                                                                        June 2016
               Reviewer
The Journal of Social Philosophy                                                                                                                                                        May 2016
Reviewer
BEST Grant Program with Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion                                                                                           April 2016
               Grant Recipient, Leadership Team Member
Ufahamu (African Studies Journal at UCLA)                                                                                                                             October 2016
               Editorial Board (Book Reviews Editor)
Minorities and Philosophy                                                                                                                                                            October 2016
               Global Co-Director (overseeing 86 chapters)
 
TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Georgetown University
Assistant Professor
               Global Justice and the Environment                                                                                                                                    Spring 2020
Philosophy of Reparations                                                                                                                                        Fall 2018, Fall 2019
               Introduction to Ethics                                                                                                                                       Spring 2019, Spring 2020
               Introduction to Black Radical Thought                                                                                                                                Spring 2019
               Introduction to Political Philosophy (at DC Jail)                                                                                                                 Spring 2019
               Social/Political Philosophy                                                                                                                                                       Fall 2019

UCLA
Teaching Assistant                                                                                                                                                                  
Philosophy of Mind                                                                                                                                                                      Fall 2014
Contemporary Moral Philosophy                                                                                                                                                Winter 2014              Philosophy of Mind                                                                                                                                                              Spring 2015
Philosophy of Science                                                                                                                                                         
Introduction to Medieval Philosophy                                                                                                                                   Winter 2016          
Instructor
               Reading the Fine Print: Rightlessness and the Social Contract (UCLA)                                                                              Spring 2016
               Introduction to Social Philosophy (Barry J. Nidorf Juvenile Detention Center)                                                                 Spring 2017
Introduction to Ethical Systems (Woodbury University)                                                                                                  Summer 2017       


 
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