Benjamin P. Davis

I am an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Hispanic Studies at Texas A&M University.

I am also a Fellow at the Center on Modernity in Transition.

Previously I held fellowships with the Department of African American Studies at Saint Louis University and with the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto.

My first book, Simone Weil’s Political Philosophy: Field Notes from the Margins, presents the mystic Simone Weil as a key political theorist. You can read the Introduction here.

My second book, Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights and Decolonial Ethics, reads the poet Édouard Glissant as an important and insightful voice for the practice of human rights today. The Introduction is available here.

My third book, Another Humanity: Decolonial Ethics from Du Bois to Arendt, defends the concepts of “the human” and “humanity” against a critical backdrop in theory today. You can read the Intro here.

I have also been part of several collaborations, including:
- with David Scott, on Stuart Hall’s ethics
- with Kris Sealey, Creolizing Critical Theory
- with Eric Aldieri, on Martha Fineman’s vulnerability theory
- with Helen Kinsella, Simone Weil’s Queer Form

My Academia page provides an overview of my work.

For 2026 speaking invitations, you can reach me at benjamin.davis [at] tamu.edu