Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies

M.A., African and African American Diaspora Studies, Indiana University, 2011

B.A., Sociology and Anthropology, Earlham College, 2007

Adeyemi Doss, is a fourth year Doctoral student in the African and African American Diaspora Studies Department at Indiana University. His research interest deals with African-centered Psychology, Africana Philosophy, existentialism, phenomenology, and philosophy of mind. He works primarily in the areas of critical philosophy of race, and the philosophy of the Black experience. He is particularly interested in the formation of African-American philosophical thought as articulated within the social context and historical space of anti-Black racism, African-American agency, and identity formation.

“"The Self as Nonexistent: The Phenomenology of How the African American Self Becomes Nonexistent to Self while in Despair" (2012, NCBS, National Council for Black Studies)

Doss, A. (2010) John L. Jackson, Jr. Racial Paranoia: The Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness. Black Diaspora

Doss, A. (2013) Black Bodies, White Spaces: Understanding the Construction of White Identity through the Objectification and Lynching of Black Bodies. Black Diaspora

Doss, A. and Obeng, C. (2013) Maafa: A Theoretical Approach to Understanding the Psychological Consequences of Being Black in America review pending

William Wiggins Award for outstanding work as an associate professor, 2013; Phyllis Klotman Award for creative contributions to scholarship, 2013; Awarded the Phyllis Klotman Award for Outstanding Masters Thesis, 2012

A154- The History of Race in the Americas Summer Session 2012

A154-The History of Race in the Americas