We start our third season of the podcast with a very important episode. As the UK celebrates Black History Month, PhD candidate Tony Baugh speaks with Prof Tommy Curry, the first Black philosophy professor in Edinburgh’s 442-year history. Together they discuss the University's landmark Race and History Review Prof Curry co-chaired at the University of Edinburgh, and the broader questions of race, history, and liberation in academia and society. One of the things that came out in the report was the ethnological foundations of race, because they start from creating hierarchies between stocks of men, ranking orders of racialized men as the bases of racial inferiority. I think my training in black male studies really helped us pinpoint the specifics and the nuances and the kind of thought developed here at the University. Prof Tommy Curry Personal Chair in Africana philosophy and Black male studies Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Podcasts Watch on YouTube Watch on MediaHopper This episode's guests Prof Tommy CurryTommy joined the University in 2019. His research interests are in Africana Philosophy and the Black Radical Tradition. His areas of specialization are: 19thcentury ethnology, Critical Race Theory, Social Political Theory, and Black Male Studies. He is the author of; The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood (Temple University Press 2017), which won the 2018 American Book Award; Another white Man’s Burden: Josiah Royce’s Quest for a Philosophy of Racial Empire (SUNY Press 2018); and has re-published the forgotten philosophical works of William Ferris as The Philosophical Treatise of William H. Ferris: Selected Readings from The African Abroad or, His Evolution in Western Civilization (Rowman & Littlefield 2016). He is also the editor of the first book series dedicated to the study of Black males entitled Black Male Studies: A Series Exploring the Paradoxes of Racially Subjugated Males on Temple University Press.Tony Baugh Tony is a fourth-year PhD candidate in philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, focusing on the works of C.L.R. James, Cornel West, Huey P. Newton, the broader Marxist tradition, and Black American radicalism. A theologian by training, he has a forthcoming chapter contribution in the book Race, Preaching, and Ricœur through Bloomsbury.Related linksProf Tommy CurryTony BaughReview of Race and History This article was published on 2025-10-14
