Bio
Dan Henry is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of African American Studies and The Program for Leadership and Character. He earned his PhD from the University of Virginia’s Department of Politics, as well as an MA from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in Sociology from Macalester College. He teaches courses in African American Studies, with a particular emphasis on African American politics and thought. Dan’s research centers on traditions of African American democratic thought, and has been published in the journals Theory & Event and American Political Thought. Underlying both his teaching and research is a focus on the ways African American intellectuals, artists, and social movements have sought to rethink the practical, moral, and conceptual bases of politics in democracy’s absence. Prior to coming to Wake Forest, he was a postdoctoral fellow in Political Philosophy, Policy, & Law at the University of Virginia and a Power, Violence, and Inequality Collective fellow.