Prof Linda Martín Alcoff

Prof Linda Martín Alcoff

Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York. She earned her PhD at Brown University after doing undergraduate work at Florida State University and Georgia State University. 

Her books include Rape and Resistance: Understanding the Complexities of Sexual Violation; The Future of Whiteness; Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self, which won the Frantz Fanon Award; and Real Knowing: New Versions of the Coherence Theory. She has published 12 edited books and over 100 articles. Her writings have appeared in the New York Times, Aeon, the NY Indipendent, among others. For over a decade she has taught courses on decolonial philosophy and epistemology in Spain, Australia and South Africa. She was elected President of the American Philosophical Association in 2012, in 2021 she was named by Academic-Influence.com as one of the ten most influential philosophers today, and in 2023 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is originally from Panama. Go to alcoff.com for more info.