The 2012-2013 Shula Lecture Series, Identity and Difference, Presents:

Liberalizing Illiberal Liberalism

Charles W. Mills

Donahue Auditorium
Dolan Center for Science and Technology

Free and Open to the Public

Charles W. Mills (Ph.D. University of Toronto) is John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Northwestern University. His research focuses on social and political philosophy, particularly oppositional political theory as centered on class, gender, and race. Dr. Mills is the author of five books, the first of which, The Racial Contract, won a Myers Outstanding Book Award for the study of bigotry and human rights in North America. His second book, Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race, was a finalist for the award for the most important North American work in social philosophy in 1998. Most recently, Dr. Mills has published a collection of his Caribbean essays, Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality: Race, Class and Social Domination. Before joining Northwestern, Charles Mills taught at the University of Oklahoma and the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he was a UIC Distinguished Professor.