Mechthild Nagel (State University of New York at Cortland)

Submitted:  Sun, March 16, 2008


Mechthild Nagel
Mechthild Nagel
Professor, Philosophy and Editor-in-Chief, Wagadu
Philosophy Department
SUNY Cortland
POB 2000
Cortland, New York 13045  USA

phone:  607-753-2013
fax:    607-753-4114
e-mail:   nagelm@cortland.edu


Web sites: http://web.cortland.edu/nagelm/
http://wagadu.org/


Research interests: Prison in Africa ; African peace making approaches.

Selected publications: 

1. Prisons and Punishment: Reconsidering Global Penality (with Seth 
Asumah), Africa World Press, 2007 (238pp.).

2. The Hydropolitics of Africa: A Contemporary Challenge (with M. 
Kitissou, M. Ndulo, M. Grieco), Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.

3. Masking the Abject: A Genealogy of Play, Lexington Books, 2002 (128 
pp.).

4. Race, Class and Community Identity (with Andrew Light), Humanity Books, 
2000 (233pp.).
 

Areas of Specialty:

Social/Political Philosophy, Ethics and Human Rights, Feminist Philosophy, 
19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Africana Philosophy, 
Philosophy of Prisons and Peace Studies