Department of Africana Studies

Michael Sawyer Michael Sawyer is Assistant Professor of Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies and the Department of English at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was recently appointed Distinguished Visiting Professor of English and the Fine Arts at the United States Air Force Academy and is the Founder and Director of the Africana Intellectual Project at Colorado College. His 2018 monograph, An Africana Philosophy of Temporality: Homo Liminalis has been nominated for the American Philosophical Association’s 2019 Book Prize as well as the MLA’s First Book Prize. His second monograph, Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X will be published in 2020. Michael holds a B.S from the United States Naval Academy, Master’s degrees in International Security Policy from the University of Chicago’s Committee on International Relations and Comparative Literature from Brown University and completed his PhD in Africana Studies in 2015.