Rosa O’Connor Acevedo is an Assistant Professor in the philosophy department at Michigan State University (MSU). Dr. O’Connor Acevedo received Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Oregon, her M.A. in philosophy from the University of Puerto Rico (Río Piedras), and her B.A. in political science from the University of Puerto Rico (Río Piedras). Prior to MSU, Dr. O’Connor Acevedo completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference at Emory University. Her primary research interests include Afro-Caribbean philosophy, Critical Philosophy of Race, Michel Foucault’s genealogy, Feminist philosophy, the Caribbean Black Radical Tradition, and Decolonial Feminisms. Her current book project, The long durée of anti-Blackness: A Fractured Ontology employs a cultural-materialist approach to the study of anti-Blackness that elucidates the non-linear and heterogenous development of anti-Blackness in the Caribbean and Latin America.
Articles and papers published in this journal inlcude:
“Sociogenesis of Proto-Racial Archetypes: Towards a Racial Long Durée” (Volume 16, Issue 2 – Fall, 2025)