ADAM ROMANOWSKI CULVER 3022 Mathews Street Baltimore, MD 21218 [email protected] +1 (410) 693-4396

EDUCATION Ph.D., , . 2015 Dissertation: “Race and Romantic Visions: A Tragic Reading” Advisers: William E. Connolly, Michael Hanchard, P.J. Brendese, Certificate in Comparative Racial Politics, Johns Hopkins University. 2011 M.A., Political Science, Johns Hopkins University. 2007 Examination Fields: Political Theory, B.A., Political Science (honors), Grinnell College. 2005

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, Department of Humanities, Baltimore, Maryland. Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor, 2014 – 2015, 2017– present. Maryland Institute College of Art, Humanistic Studies, Baltimore, Maryland. Instructor, 2013 – present. Makerere University, Makerere Institute of Social Research, Kampala, Uganda. Visiting Research Fellow, 2016. Makerere University, Makerere Institute of Social Research, Kampala, Uganda. Visiting Lecturer, 2015.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE Maryland Institute College of Art (Undergraduate Courses) • Human Nature in Political Thought (Fall 2014, Fall 2015, Fall 2016, Spring 2019) • Nietzsche in His Time and Ours (Fall 2013, Fall 2014, Fall 2017, Fall 2018) • History of Existentialism (Spring 2017, Spring 2018) • Revolutions: Conceptualizing New Forms of Culture (Spring 2017) • Political Violence and Modernity (Spring 2015) • Relativism in American Thought (Spring 2014) • Modern Political Theory (Spring 2013) Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University (Undergraduate Courses) • Writing & Research Methods: The Early Political Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois (Spring 2019) • Art, Culture, and Society: Race and Power in American Cinema (Spring 2018, Spring 2019) • Critical Methods: Race, Philosophy & Social Criticism (Fall 2015, Fall 2017, Fall 2018) • Writing & Research Methods: The Souls of Black Folk (Spring 2014, Spring 2018) • Critical Methods: What Is Power? (Fall 2014)

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Johns Hopkins University Advanced Academic Programs (MLA Courses) • Existentialism: Philosophy & Social Critique (Spring 2019) • “The Souls of Black Folk”: Evolving Conceptions of Leadership in African American Literature and Culture (Fall 2017, Fall 2018) Makerere Institute of Social Research (Graduate Courses) • Contemporary Western Social and Political Thought (Summer 2016) • Plato to Marx: Pre-Modern and Modern Western Political Thought (Spring 2016) • Contemporary Trends in Political Theory (Summer 2015) • Race and Decolonization (Summer 2015) Johns Hopkins University Center for Africana Studies (Undergraduate Courses) • Black Nationalism and Its Critics (Spring 2013) • Black Political Thought and the Enlightenment (Fall 2010)

PUBLICATIONS Manuscripts in Revision: “Sophocles, James Baldwin, and Tragic Wisdom: On Racism and the Politics of Enmity.” Received a “revise and resubmit” from Theory & Event.

Manuscripts in Progress: “Relays of Power: Elections, Incorporation, and the Politics of Informality.” To be submitted to The MISR Review “‘But Can We Escape Vertigo?’: Nietzsche, Fanon, and Untimely Humanism.” To be submitted to Public Culture Race and Romantic Visions – A Tragic Reading (book manuscript)

Web-Based Publications: “Fascism at the Door” The Contemporary Condition (11/23/16) (Link)

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2013 Center for Africana Studies Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University. 2011 James Hart Fellowship, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University. 2010 Africana Studies Prize Teaching Fellowship, Center for Africana Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Fall Semester 2008 Paula A. McCoy Award for Most Distinguished Political Science Graduate Seminar Paper for the Academic Year, Johns Hopkins University.

INVITED TALKS 2018 “‘But Can We Escape Vertigo?’: Nietzsche, Fanon, and Untimely Humanism.” University at Albany, SUNY, Political Theory Workshop, Department of Political Science, Albany, NY. November 2. 2 ADAM CULVER CV

2018 “Relays of Power: Elections, Incorporation, and the Politics of Informality.” Makerere Institute of Social Research, Kampala, Uganda. July 18. 2017 “On Racism and the Politics of Enmity: Sophocles, Baldwin, and Tragic Wisdom.” Bates College, Politics Department, Lewiston, ME. December 5. 2017 Roundtable on Diversity and Democracy with Eddie Glaude, Jr., P.J. Brendese, and Jessica Marie Johnson. Johns Hopkins University, The JHU Project in American Pluralism, Baltimore, MD. April 21. 2016 “Immanuel Kant, Johann Herder, and the Birth of Modern Racism.” Makerere University, Department of Philosophy, Kampala, Uganda. April 14.

CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION Papers Presented: 2019 “‘But Can We Escape Vertigo?’: Nietzsche, Fanon, and Untimely Humanism.” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. April 18 – 20. 2018 “‘But Can We Escape Vertigo?’: Nietzsche, Fanon, and Untimely Humanism.” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. August 30 – September 2. 2018 “Fanon on Nietzsche’s Tragic Philosophy of Becoming.” Caribbean Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, Dakar, Senegal. June 19 – 22. 2018 “On Racism and the Politics of Enmity: Sophocles, Baldwin, and Tragic Wisdom.” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. March 29 – 31. 2017 “Between Us Friends (and Enemies): On Racism and the Politics of Enmity.” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. August 31 – September 3. 2017 “Elections, Informality, and Failures of Incorporation: Reflections on the Postcolonial Political Community in Kampala, Uganda.” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia. April 13 – 15. 2016 “Elections, Strategies of Incorporation, and the Informal Urban Economy in Uganda.” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. September 1 – 4. 2016 “Informalization and Failures of Incorporation: Reflections on the Search for Political Community.” Makerere Institute of Social Research, MISR Seminar Series, Kampala, Uganda. August 10. 2016 “The Politics of Informality: NRM Strategies of Incorporation and the Boda-boda Industry.” Makerere Institute of Social Research, MISR Seminar Series, Kampala, Uganda. February 17. 2014 “Kant contra Herder: Race, Reason, and Universal History.” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC. August 27 – 31. 2014 “Becoming-Active, Becoming-Revolutionary: Fanon’s Creative Appropriation of Nietzsche.” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA. April 17 – 19.

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2013 “Johann Herder’s Romantic Vision: Organicism, Pluralism, and Belonging.” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Hollywood, CA. March 28 – 30. 2012 “Race and the Tragic Vision: Sophocles, Nietzsche, Baldwin.” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Portland, OR. March 22 – 24.

Paper Discussant: 2017 Michael Dawson, “Hidden in Plain Sight II: Temporalities, Frictions, and Ruptures.” Johns Hopkins University, Department of Political Science, Baltimore, MD. November 30. 2016 Samson Bezabeh, “The Politics of Sidelining: Parties, Personalities, and Ethnic Groups in Independent Djibouti.” Makerere Institute of Social Research, MISR Seminar Series, Kampala, Uganda. April 6. 2016 John Young, “South Sudan’s Civil War: A Failure of Leadership or a Failure of the International Community?” Makerere Institute of Social Research, MISR Seminar Series, Kampala, Uganda. March 30. 2015 Yonas Ashine, “Bringing the Slaves Back in: Slaves and State Formations in the Horn of Africa.” Makerere Institute of Social Research, Trans-African Slaveries Workshop, Kampala, Uganda. June 27. 2015 Haydee Bangerezako, “Politics of Indigeneity: Land Disputes in Post Conflict Burundi.” Makerere Institute of Social Research, Beyond Criminal Justice Evaluation Workshop, Phase 1, Kampala, Uganda. June 6, 2015.

Panel Participant: 2018 Discussant and Chair, “Biopolitical Populations.” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. March 29 – 31. 2018 Chair, “Ways of Seeing: Museums.” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. March 29 – 31. 2017 Chair, “Edgework: Frontiers of Political Theory.” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia. April 13 – 15. 2009 Discussant, “Immigration and Racial Hierarchy.” Johns Hopkins University, Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship in Plural Societies International Conference, Baltimore, MD. April 30.

DEPARTMENTAL TALKS AND COLLOQUIA Papers Presented: 2015 “Race, Pluralism, and Power.” Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, JHU Peabody Diversity Committee Public Conversation Series, Inaugural Lecture, Baltimore, MD. October 22. 2014 “Becoming-Active, Becoming-Revolutionary: Fanon’s Creative Appropriation of Nietzsche.” Johns Hopkins University, A Time and a Place: Race and Racism in Comparative Perspective, an Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Baltimore, MD. May 2.

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2011 “Kant, Herder, and the Race Concept.” Johns Hopkins University, Department of Political Science Graduate Student Colloquium, Baltimore, MD. October 28. 2007 “Becoming-Active, Becoming-Revolutionary: Nietzsche, Deleuze, Fanon.” Johns Hopkins University, Department of Political Science Graduate Student Colloquium, Baltimore, MD. March 23.

Paper Discussant: 2013 Michael Hanchard, “Edward Augustus and the Dawn of Comparative Politics.” Johns Hopkins University, Department of Political Science Departmental Seminar, Baltimore, MD. December 5. 2009 Tim Hanafin, “Swift and Habermas on Early Modern Time Consciousness.” Johns Hopkins University, Department of Political Science Graduate Student Colloquium, Baltimore, MD. March 27. 2006 Stefanie Fishel, “Theocratic War Machine.” Johns Hopkins University, Department of Political Science Graduate Student Colloquium, Baltimore, MD. November 17.

Panel Discussant: 2012 “Racial Construction and Mobilization.” Johns Hopkins University, A Time and a Place: Race and Racism in Comparative Perspective, an Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Baltimore, MD. December 2.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE 2016 Research Group Director. Uganda 2016 Elections Project. Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. January – August

ACADEMIC AND COMMUNITY SERVICE Makerere Institute of Social Research: Comprehensive Examination Committees: Judith Ikiring Obore (August 2016) Michael Mutyaba (July 2016) Yahya Sseremba (May 2016) Oketcho Phillip (June 2015)

REFERENCES William E. Connolly Krieger-Eisenhower Professor Department of Political Science Johns Hopkins University 3400 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21218 (410) 516-7535; [email protected]

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Michael Hanchard Professor Department of Africana Studies University of Pennsylvania 3401 Walnut St. Philadelphia, PA 19104 (443) 510-8768; [email protected]

P.J. Brendese Assistant Professor Co-Director, Racism, Immigration and Citizenship Program Department of Political Science Johns Hopkins University 3400 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21218 (410) 516-4993; [email protected]

D. Alan Orr Professor Humanistic Studies Maryland Institute College of Art 1300 W. Mount Royal Avenue Baltimore, MD 21217 (410) 225-2462; [email protected] (Teaching Reference)

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