Douglas Ficek is a doctoral student in philosophy at Temple University,
where he is also a graduate fellow at the Institute for the Study of
Race and Social Thought.  He has taught at several institutions, but
has been at John Jay College of Criminal Justice for nearly two years.

Ficek specializes in Africana philosophy, and will be teaching an
experimental course on Africana philosophy in the Fall of 2006.  He
also does work in critical race theory, philosophy of existence,
philosophy of religion, philosophy of liberation, social and political
philosophy, and theoretical and applied ethics.

Ficek has published articles in Radical Philosophy Review, Free
Inquiry, and Kettering Exchange.  He also has two "forthcoming"
articles, the first of which will be published in Philosophy & Social
Criticism in 2006.  The second article will appear in Shifting the
Geography of Reason II: Gender, Science, and Religion: Proceedings of
the 2nd Annual Meeting of the Caribbean Philosophical Association at
some point in 2007.