Curriculum Vitae of DERRICK DARBY

University of Michigan Department of Philosophy 2215 Angell Hall 435 South State Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003 (734) 764-6285 [email protected]

EDUCATION , Ph.D., Philosophy, 1996 Thesis: A Coherent Theory of Moral Rights (Director: Joseph L. Camp, Jr.) Colgate University, B.A., Philosophy (with Honors), 1988

FACULTY POSITIONS University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Professor of Philosophy (2014-current) University of Kansas - Professor of Law (2013-2014) - Professor of Philosophy (2012-2014) - Associate Professor of Philosophy (2007-2012) Texas A & M University, Associate Professor of Philosophy (2005-2007) , Assistant Professor of Philosophy (1996-2004)

VISITING AND AFFILIATED FACULTY POSITIONS University of Chicago School of Law, Visiting Professor of Law (2015-2016) University of Michigan, Visiting Professor of Philosophy (Winter term 2013) University of Kansas, Affiliated Faculty, School of Law (2007-2012) University of Kansas, Affiliated Faculty, Institute for Policy & Social Research (2008-2014) University of Virginia, Visiting Lecturer in Philosophy (1994-1995)

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Social and , Race, Inequality

AREAS OF COMPETENCE: African American Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Law, History of Political Philosophy (modern)

PUBLICATIONS

Books

3. The Color of Mind: Why the Origins of the Achievement Gap Matter for Justice (with John Rury), University of Chicago Press forthcoming

2. Rights, Race, and Recognition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)

1. Hip Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme 2 Reason, coedited with Tommie Shelby (Chicago: Open Court Publishing, 2005) Portuguese Translation: Martha Malvezzi Leal as Hip Hop e a Filosofia (São Paulo: Madras Editora Ltda., 2006)

Published Articles and Chapters

21. “Postracial Remedies,” (with Richard Levy) University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 50 (2017): 387-488

20. “Uncovering the Voting Rights Act: The Racial Progress Argument in Shelby County,” Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 25 (2016): 329-346

19. “War and Education in the United States: Racial Ideology and Inequality in Three Historical Episodes,” (with John Rury) Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education 52 (2016): 8-24

18. “Race, Inequality of Opportunity, and School Choice” (with Argun Saatcioglu) Theory and Research in Education 13 (2015): 56-86

17. “Beyond the Sins of the Fathers: Responsibility for Inequality” (with Nyla R. Branscombe) Midwest Studies in Philosophy 38 (2014): 121-137

16. “Race, Justice, and Desegregation” (with Argun Saatcioglu) Du Bois Review 11:1 (2014): 87-108

15. “Egalitarianism and Perceptions of Inequality” (with Nyla R. Branscombe) Philosophical Topics 40 (2012): 7-25

14. “Adequacy, Inequality, and Cash for Grades” Theory and Research in Education 9 (2011): 209-232

13. “Slaying the Inequality Villain in School Finance: Is the Right to Education the Silver Bullet?” (with Richard Levy) Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 20 (2011): 351-387

12. “Educational Inequality and Affirmative Action in Brazil” Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice 22 (2010): 408-415

11. “Taking Individuals Seriously: New Liberalism and Rights” in Anglo-American Idealism: Thinkers and Ideas, eds., James Connelly and Stamatoula Panagakou (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010), 215-238

10. “Reparations and Racial Inequality” Philosophy Compass 5 (2010): 55-66

9. “Educational Inequality and the Science of Diversity in Grutter: A Lesson for the Reparations Debate in the Age of Obama” The University of Kansas Law Review 57 (2009): 755-793

8. “Blacks and Rights: A Bittersweet Legacy” Law, Culture, and the Humanities 2 (2006): 420-439

Curriculum Vitae of Derrick Darby 2 7. “Yo! It Ain’t No Mystery: Who is God?” in Hip Hop and Philosophy: Rhyme to Reason, eds., Derrick Darby and Tommie Shelby (Chicago: Open Court 2005)

6. “Rights Externalism” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68 (2004): 620-634

5. “Unnatural Rights” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 33 (2003): 49-82

4. “Feinberg and Martin on Human Rights” Journal of 34 (2003): 199-214

3. “Grounding Rights in Social Practices: A Defence” Res Publica 9 (2003): 1-18

2. “Two Conceptions of Rights Possession” and Practice 27 (2001): 387-417

1. “Are Worlds Without Natural Rights Morally Impoverished?” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 37 (1999): 397-417

Book Reviews

7. Duncan Ivison, Rights, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2008.12.15) 6. Maria Dimova-Cookson and W. J. Mander, eds., T. H. Green: Ethics, Metaphysics, and Political Philosophy, Ethics 118 (2008): 341-345 5. Hilary Putnam, Ethics without Ontology, International Philosophical Quarterly 45 (2005): 397-398 4. William A. Edmundson, An Introduction to Rights, Ethics 115 (2005): 812-816 3. Richard A. Primus, The American Language of Rights, Ethics 111 (2001): 823-826 2. Michael P. Zuckert, The Natural Rights Republic, Ethics 109 (1999): 493 1. John Searle, The Construction of Social Reality, Mind 105 (1996): 716-719

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND SPECIAL INVITATIONS

• ACLS Collaborative Research Fellowship (with John Rury): The Color of Mind: Why the Origins of the Achievement Gap Matter for Justice (2015-2016) $140,000 • Spencer Foundation Grant (with John Rury): Why the Origins of the Achievement Gap Matters (2013) • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (2011) • University of Kansas Scholarly Achievement Award (2011) • Spencer Foundation Grant: Philosophy and the Racial Achievement Gap (2009-2011) $39,700 • KU New Faculty General Research Fund Award: Educational Inequality (Summer 2009) $3,000 • KU Keeler Family Intra-University Professorship (Spring 2009) • Invited Visiting Professor, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, Brazil (July 2007) • Invited Research Group Participant, Conference of North American and Cuban and Social Scientists, University of Havana, Cuba (June 2006), funded by a $4000.00 Texas A&M Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity Grant • Faculty Fellow, Northwestern University Kaplan Center for the Humanities (2000-2001) • Provost Developmental Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh (1992-1993)

Curriculum Vitae of Derrick Darby 3 SELECTED INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PAPERS (1996-present)

“Evil Monsters and Where to Find Them” • LaGuardia Community College, Philosophy Undergraduate Conference, Keynote (April 2017)

“Recognizing Dignity: MLK’s Vindication of Voting Rights” • , Race, Recognition and Respect Conference (April 2017)

“Mass Incarceration in the Trump Era” • University of Michigan, Policymaking under the Trump Administration, Invited Panelist (March 2017)

Social Justice Hip Hop Panel • University of Michigan, Maize Collective, Invited Moderator (March 2017)

“What is Black Lives Matter, and Would They Boo Dr. King” • University of Akron, Rethinking Race presentation (February 2017)

Why and When Does Inequality Matter? • , Center for Ethics and Human Values, Invited Panelist for COMPAS Conference (September 2016)

“A Vindication of Voting Rights” • Wayne State University, Philosophy Colloquium (October 2016) • , Colloquium in Legal, Political and Social Philosophy (October 2016) • , Radcliffe Institute Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Workshop (June 2016)

“Old Poison in New Bottles: How Racism Thrives in Integrated Schools and Why this is a Problem of Justice” • King’s College, Peace and Justice Center Barbara Sabol Memorial Lecture (April 2016)

“Doing the Knowledge” • University of Michigan, TED talk, TEDxUofM (April 2016)

“Schooling Inequality: Why America is not a Land of Equal Opportunity for Everyone” • Georgia State University, Social Mobility Symposium, Keynote Speaker (February 2016)

“Uncovering the Voting Rights Act in Shelby” • University of Kansas School of Law, Voting Rights Symposium (February 2016) • University of Chicago School of Law, invited lecture (January 2016)

“The Color of Mind: Why the Origins of the Achievement Gap Matter for Justice ” • University of Illinois, Chicago, Race & Ethnicity Workshop (September 2016) • Columbia University Teachers College, History and Philosophy Colloquium (March 2016) • NYU Steinhardt School, Open Forum (March 2016) • NYU Steinhardt School, History and Philosophy Workshop (March 2016) • University of Chicago School of Law, American Constitution Society talk (January 2016)

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“Postracial Remedies” • University of Michigan, School of Law, Law Review Symposium Presentation (February 2017) • Stanford University, Political Theory Workshop (April 2016) • University of Chicago School of Law, Law and Philosophy Workshop (February 2016) • University of Kansas School of Law, Legal Theory Workshop (December 2015)

“Ideology, Inequality, and Injustice in Education” • Georgia State University, Philosophy Colloquium (February 2016) • University of Pennsylvania, Philosophy Colloquium (October 2015)

“The Fair Value of Voting Rights” • University of Chicago, Practical Philosophy Workshop (January 2016) • University of California, Berkeley Law School, Workshop in Law, Philosophy, and Political Theory (October 2015)

“Contesting the Achievement Gap” (with John Rury) • University of Rochester, Workshop on History and Philosophy of Education (April 2015)

“Long Live Hip Hop! The Good, the Bad, and the Vulgar” • University of Michigan, MAP lecture (April 2015)

“What’s Wrong With Racial and Other Social Injustices?” • University of Michigan, Discussant MAP Panel (March 2015)

“Give Us the Ballot Part I: Justifying Voting Rights” • APA Pacific Division Meeting, Invited Symposium Speaker, Vancouver (March 2015) • APA Central Division Meeting, Invited Symposium Speaker, St. Louis (February 2015) • University of Michigan Law School, Legal Theory Workshop (February 2015)

“A Psychological Problem for Justice as Reparations” • University of Michigan, EDGe talk (March 2015) • University of Michigan, Legal and Political Philosophy Workshop, Ann Arbor (November 2014) • Vanderbilt University, Philosophy Colloquium (November 2014) • SPEP Conference, Author Session on Charles Mills, New Orleans (October 2014) • University of Memphis, Philosophy Colloquium (September 2014)

“War, Race, and Education in the United States: Three Historical Episodes” (with John Rury) • International Standing Conference on the History of Education (ISCHE), London (July 2014)

“Framing the Achievement Gap” (with John Rury) • New York University, Workshop on History and Philosophy of Education (February 2014)

“The Color of Poverty” • Shifting Our Understanding of American Poverty Speaker Series, University of Kansas (Feb 2014)

“Why the Origins of the Racial Achievement Gap Matters” • University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Education (November 2013)

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“Why the Rich and Poor Don’t See Eye to Eye on Inequality and Why this Matters for Justice” • Colorado College, Department of Philosophy (October 2013)

“The As If Challenge to Racial Medicine” • University of Michigan, Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine (April 2013)

“Colorblind Justice and Desegregation in Postracial America” • University of Michigan, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Program (April 2013)

“An Inequality Conundrum” • University of Michigan, Philosophy Department Colloquium (February 2013)

Rights, Race, and Recognition, Author Meets Critics Session • Eastern Division American Philosophical Association Meeting, Atlanta (December 2012)

“Egalitarianism and Perceptions of Injustice” • Invited participant, Rethinking Inequality Workshop, University of Ottawa (November 2012)

“Lyrical Minds: Why Hip Hop Can’t Die” • Columbia University, Institute for Research in African-American Studies (October 2012)

“The Source and Value of Human Rights” • Invited Participant Rights Conference, University of New South Wales (August 2012)

“Equality of What? A Conversation between Philosophers and Economists” • Invited Plenary Speaker at World Bank Conference on Equity, World Bank Headquarters, Washington D.C. (June 2012)

“The Experience of Moral Rights” • University of Amsterdam, Philosophy Department (March 2012)

“Colorblind Justice and the Retreat from Desegregation in Postracial America” • University of Chicago, Political Theory Workshop (February 2012)

“Hip Hop and Moral Reasoning” • Harvard University, The HipHop Archive (February 2012)

“How Not to Attack Luck Egalitarianism” • University of Torcuato Di Tella, School of Law, Buenos Aires (December 2012) • University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Philosophy Department (December 2012) • University of Sydney, Philosophy Department (August 2012) • Columbia University, Philosophy Department (May 2012) • Hunter College, Philosophy Department (April 2012) • , Philosophy Department (January 2012)

Speaker, Building Communities, Expanding Opportunities Summit • University of Kansas (January 2012)

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Keynote Address, Governor’s MLK Day Celebration for the State of Kansas • Topeka High School, Topeka (January 2012)

Invited Critic, Elizabeth Anderson, The Imperative of Integration • Eastern Division APA Meeting, Washington, D.C. (December 2011)

Invited Commentator, Spencer Foundation conference on Race, Opportunity, and Education • Northwestern University (October 2011)

“The Morality of Egalitarianism” • University of Rochester, Philosophy Department (September 2011)

“Reparations and Racial Inequality in the U. S.” • University of Hawaii, Manoa, Invited Plenary, East-West Philosophers’ Conference (May 2011)

“Do Lawyers Know Enough? Complex Problems and the Need for Multidisciplinarity” • Shook, Hardy, and Bacon, Invited Luncheon Speaker, Kansas City, MO (April 2011)

“Is Educational Adequacy Enough for Racial Justice?” • Invited Symposium APA Central Division Meeting (April 2011)

“Educational Inequality and Justice: Law, Philosophy, and Public Policy” • Invited Speaker, School of the Magistrates of the State of , Brazil (March 2011)

“Inequality, Justice, and Education: Should We Lament the Postracial Turn?” • Pontifical Catholic University of Porto Alegre, Brazil, Philosophy Department (March 2011)

Invited Panelist, Capabilities and Human Rights: A Conference on Amartya Sen’s, The Idea of Justice • Program in Political Philosophy, Policy, and Law, University of Virginia, Charlottesville (November 2010)

“Collaborative Research in Philosophy: The Problem of Inequality” • Collaborative Research Workshop, Hall Center for the Humanities (November 2010)

Right, Race, and Recognition, Author Meets Critics Sessions • Roundtable on Philosophy and Race, University of Kansas (October 2010) • Association for Political Theory Conference, Reed College (October 2010)

“Philosophy and the Racial Achievement Gap” • The Spencer Foundation, Chicago IL (April 2010)

“Egalitarianism and Racial Inequality” • University of Cape Town, South Africa, Philosophy Department (May 2010) • University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Philosophy Department (May 2010) • Stanford University, Political Theory Workshop (April 2010) • University of California, Riverside, Philosophy Department (April 2010) • Duke University, Durham, Research Network on Racial and Ethnic Inequality (March 2010)

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“Educational Inequality and Affirmative Action in Brazil” • International Conference on Pragmatism and the Hispanic/Latino World Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (February 2010)

Invited Panelist, “The New Face of Race: A Community Discussion” Chancellor’s Distinguished Speaker Series • Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC (January 2010)

“Reparations and Racial Inequality” • Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom, Centre for Democracy Studies (November 2009)

“Rights, Race, and Recognition” • University of Kansas, Langston Hughes Center (November 2009)

“The Social Basis of Moral Rights” • Cardiff University, United Kingdom, Politics and School of European Studies (November 2009) • The City University of New York Graduate Center, Philosophy Department (October 2009) • University of Texas, Austin, Law and Philosophy Workshop (September 2009)

“Educational Inequality and the Science of Diversity in Grutter” • KU Hall Center for the Humanities, Inequality Seminar presentation (September 2009)

“Racial Inequalities in Education Post-Brown: A Brief Against Choice-Sensitive Egalitarianism” • Inequalities in the World System International Symposium, São Paulo, Brazil (September 2009)

“The Three Dimensions of Transformative Academic Leadership” • Fayetteville State University, Platform guest speaker at the Installation of Chancellor Dr. James A. Anderson (March 2009)

“Hip Hop and Philosophy” • Fayetteville State University, Student and Faculty Colloquium (March 2009)

“Normativity after the Demise of Natural Rights” • Tufts University, Philosophy Department (March 2009)

“The Racial Achievement Gap and the ‘Acting White’ Hypothesis” • University of Kansas Social Psychology Brown Bag Talk (March 2009)

Black Achievement and Awareness Day Faculty Panel Speaker • University of Kansas (February 2009)

“What is Wrong with the Racial Achievement Gap?” • University of Kansas, Philosophy Faculty Colloquium (January 2009)

Author Meets Critic symposium participant, Michael Hanchard’s Party/Politics: Horizons in Black Political Thought • APA Eastern Division Meeting, Philadelphia (December 2008)

Curriculum Vitae of Derrick Darby 8 “The Consumption of Blackness: Agency, Authenticity, and Accountability” • University of Kansas Black Student Union special faculty lecture (February 2008)

“Race, Rights, and the South African Constitution” • Old Dominion University, Philosophy Department (November 2007)

“Race and Rights” • Texas A & M University, Department of Communications (April 2007)

“All Hands on the Plow: Recognizing Rights and Freedom” • University of Kansas, Department of Philosophy and Public Lecture (February 2007)

“Do South Africans Have Social Rights?” • Ethics & Africa Conference, University of Cape Town, South Africa (May 2006)

“Rights, Freedom, and Katrina Refugees: Lessons from the South African Constitution” • Texas A & M University (May 2006)

“Making the Souls of Black Folk” • University at Albany, Philosophy Department (February 2006)

“Bridging the Gap: Philosophy, Politics, and the Hip Hop Generation” (Keynote Public Lecture) • University at Albany (February 2006)

“Liberalism’s Saving Principles and Black Liberation” • Philosophy Born of Struggle Conference, New School (October 2005)

“1893 Chicago World Fair and 2001 Durban World Conference: America’s Pertinacious Dilemma on the World Stage” • Central Division APA meeting symposium session (April 2005) • Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) Conference on the Black World, Tours, France (April 2005)

“Enemy Combatants and the Right to Liberty” • University of Washington, Seattle, Philosophy Department (October 2004)

“Green on Rights and Slaves” • Political Studies Association Conference, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK (April 2004)

“Globalization and the Enforcement of Human Rights” • Political Studies Association Conference, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, UK (April 2004)

“Taking Individuals Seriously: New Liberalism and Rights” • Bentley College, Philosophy Department (January 2004) • Texas A & M University, Philosophy Department (January 2004)

“Critical Race Theory and the Normative Significance of Liberalism” • University of Memphis, Philosophy Department (October 2003)

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“Taking Individuals Seriously: New Liberalism and Rights” • International conference on Anglo-American Idealism, Pyrgos, Greece (August 2003)

“Globalization and the Enforcement of Human Rights” • Conference on Utilitarianism, Human Rights and Globalization, Lisbon, Portugal (April 2003)

“Natural Rights, Slavery, and Black Inferiority” • Chicago Political Theory Conference, Chicago, IL (November 2001)

“Can Rights Combat Racial Oppression?” • Working Group on Law, Culture, and the Humanities, Austin, TX (March 2001) • Alice Berline Kaplan Center for Humanities Workshop, Evanston, IL (March 2001) • Collegium for African American Research (CAAR) Conference on the Meanings of Race for the 21st Century, Sardinia, Italy (March 2001) • The W. E. B. Du Bois Scholars Institute, Princeton, NJ (July 2000) • Rutgers’ Summer Institute in Philosophy for Minority Students, New Brunswick, NJ (July 2000)

“Unnatural Rights” • American Philosophical Association (APA) Central Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (April 2000) • Bowling Green State University, Philosophy Department (February 2000)

“Rights Externalism” • Howard University, Philosophy Department (September 1999) • Colgate University, Philosophy Department (April 1999)

“Are Worlds Without Natural Rights Morally Impoverished?” • The University of Texas at San Antonio, Philosophy Department (November 1998) • University of Kansas, Philosophy Department (October 1998)

“‘Person’ is a Rigid Designator” • APA Pacific Division Meeting, Los Angeles, CA (March 1998)

“Indispensability, Mathematics, and Moral Rights” • Central States Philosophical Association Meeting, Kansas City, MO (October 1996)

SELECTED SERVICE ACTIVITIES

University of Michigan Philosophy Undergraduate Advisor (2014-2015) Member, Graduate Admissions Committee (2014-2015) (2016-2017) Chair’s Committee (2014-2015)

Professional Member, Committee on Philosophy and Law, APA (2015-2018) Panelist (Philosophy), National Academy of Sciences, Ford Foundation Fellowships (2014, 2015) Member, Advisory Committee to the Program Committee (), American Philosophical Association Eastern Division (2010-2013)

Curriculum Vitae of Derrick Darby 10 Editorial Board (2008-2009), International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Blackwell) Commentator on numerous papers presented at APA meeting Chairperson of numerous APA meeting sessions Refereed numerous papers for various journals and books for various presses

KU Philosophy Department Department Chairperson Search Committee, member (2011-2012) Academic Program Committee Organized and raised support for a Fall 2008 Superseminar co-taught with Rex Martin Ethics Search Committee Committee on Graduate Recruitment, Admissions and Awards Committee on Department Priorities Robinson Essay Committee Salary Advisory Group Applied Ethics Committee GTA Supervisor for Phil 180 Philosophy Research Advisory Group Visiting Lecturers Committee, chair (2008-2009) Promotion and Tenure Committee B

KU School of Law Faculty Convener, Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy: Education Symposium issue (2011) Faculty Convener, Kansas Law Review: Symposium on Law, Reparations, and Racial Disparities (2008) Papers published in 57 U. Kan. L. Rev (2009)

University of Kansas KU Initiative on Building Communities, Expanding Opportunities, co-chair (2011) School of Law Dean Search Committee (2010) Chancellor’s Task Force on Research Engagement (2009-2010) College of Liberal Arts and Science Dean Search Committee (2009-2010) Executive Committee, Hall Center for the Humanities (2009-2012) Co-director, Hall Center for the Humanities Faculty Seminar on Inequality (2008-2009)

State of Kansas Prepared foreword on schools and educational opportunity for a policy brief on the state of African Americans in Kansas, Kansas African American Affairs Commission (2012)

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