Gertrude Allen

Gertrude Allen is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Spelman College. Allen has degrees from Susquehanna University and Binghamton University of the State University of New York.  She has held fellowships at the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference at Emory, the Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University, and the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University.  Her writings have focused on questions of identity and colonialism in the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States.  She specializes in Afro-Caribbean philosophy, post-continental philosophy, theory of colonization/decolonization.