Charles Mills

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Charles Mills
Basic facts
Organization:	CUNY Graduate Center
Role:	Professor of philosophy
Expertise:	Social and political philosophy, African-American and Africana philosophy, critical philosophy of race, ethics, Marxist thought
Education:	•Ph.D., University of Toronto, 1985 •M.A., University of Toronto, 1976•B.S., University of the West Indies, 1971

Charles Mills was a Jamaican legal scholar and professor. Prior to his death in 2021, he was a professor of philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. According to his Daily Nous obituary, Mills' areas of interest included social and political philosophy, African-American and Africana philosophy, critical philosophy of race, ethics, and Marxist thought.

Career

Below is a summary of Charles Mills' education and career:

Academic degrees:

• Ph.D., University of Toronto (1985)
• M.A., University of Toronto (1976)
• B.S., University of the West Indies (1971)

Professional positions and honors:

• Jamaica Scholarship (1968-1971)
• Commonwealth Fellowship (1973-1976)
• University of Toronto Doctoral Fellowship (1977-1978)
• University of Toronto Doctoral Fellowship (1978-1979)
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship (1979-1980)
• University of Toronto Doctoral Fellowship (1980-1981)
• University of Toronto Doctoral Fellowship (1981-1982)
• Ontario Graduate Scholarship (1982-1983)
• University of Oklahoma Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship (1988)
• University of Illinois at Chicago Minority Research Fellowship (1990-1993)
• Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago (1993-1994)
• Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America Outstanding Book Award for The Racial Contract (1997)
• University Scholar, University of Illinois at Chicago (1999-2002)
• African American Culture and Philosophy Award, Purdue University (2000-2001)
• Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago (2003-2004)
• Distinguished Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago (2004-2007)
• John Evans Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, Northwestern University (2007)
• Associated Student Government Faculty Honor Roll, Northwestern University (2013-2014)
• Scholar Session on my work at the annual meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) (2014)
• Nominated for Vice President/President of the APA, Central Division (2016)
• John Dewey Lecture, APA Central Division meeting (2016)
• Physics Lecturer at the College of Arts, Science and Technology (Kingston, Jamaica) (1971-1973)
• Physics Teacher at Campion College (Kingston, Jamaica) (1976-1977)
• Grader, Teaching Assistant, Instructor for various courses, University of Toronto (1977-1987)
• Assistant Professor, University of Oklahoma (1987-1990)
• Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago (1990-1993)
• Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago (1993-1999)
• Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago (1999-2007)
• Professor, Northwestern University (2007-2016)

Academic scholarship

The following table contains a selection of books and works by Professor Mills about critical race theory and related issues. Any links in the table below feature Ballotpedia summaries of that scholarly work. All of his publications can be found here.

Scholarly work
Title	Source
The Racial Contract	Cornell University Press (1997)
Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race	Cornell University Press (1998)
From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism	Rowman & Littlefield (2003)
Contract and Domination	Polity Press (2007)
Radical Theory, Caribbean Reality: Race, Class and Social Domination	University of the West Indies Press (2010)
Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism	Oxford University Press (2017)
“’Ideology’ in Marx and Engels”	The Philosophical Forum (1990)
"Race and Class: Conflicting or Reconcilable Paradigms?"	Social and Economic Studies (1987)
"Marxism and Naturalistic Mystification"	Science and Society (1985-1986)
"White Ignorance"	Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance (2007)

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