Kellyn Lewis '12
Kellyn Lewis was an African American Studies and Philosophy major in the Weinberg School of Arts and Sciences with a strong interest in the work of Frantz Fanon. He was highly involved on campus and in community and labor organizing. His research as a Mellon Fellow worked to critique the social contract tradition of Western philosophy utilizing important political theorists who establish the colonial and racial gestures of the historical work. Kellyn is currently finishing a Masters in Religious Studies at the University of Chicago. There he has focused on the Philosophy of Religion, with strong interests in Hegel, Nietzsche, and Derrida. His work is most concerned with the fields of Political Theology and Metaphysics from Continental Europe, Islamic, and Africana traditions. He will apply to PhD programs in the Fall of 2020 in hopes of continuing this research.