Benjamin P. Davis is an Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University.
From 2026-27, he will be a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights.
Davis is also a Fellow at the Center on Modernity in Transition and the Director of Global Partnerships for the UNESCO Chair on Health, Race and Human Rights.
Previously he held fellowships with the Department of African American Studies at Saint Louis University and the Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto.
His first book, Simone Weil’s Political Philosophy: Field Notes from the Margins, reads the mystic Simone Weil as an illuminating political theorist. You can read the Introduction here.
Davis’s second book, Choose Your Bearing: Édouard Glissant, Human Rights and Decolonial Ethics, presents the poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant as a vital voice for the practice of human rights today. The Introduction is available here.
His 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.
Davis 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
His Academia page provides an overview of his work.
For speaking invitations, please email: benjamin.davis [at] tamu.edu
Benjamin P. Davis 