Dr. M.L. (Michael) Thomas
Assistant Professor
Faculty of Humanities
Capaciteitsgroep Critical Cultural Theory
Visiting address
- Oude Turfmarkt 141
- Room number: 1.03
Postal address
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Postbus 94201
1090 GE Amsterdam
Contact details
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Publications
2026
- Michael Halewood , & Thomas, M. L. (2026). The possible form of an interlocution. W. E. B. Du Bois and Max Weber in correspondence by Nahum Dimitri Chandler, Durham and London, Duke University Press, 2025, xxiii and 224pp., $23.95 (paperback), ISBN. Ethnic and Racial Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2026.2613067
- Thomas, M. L., & Michael Halewood (2026). Du Bois on sociology, double consciousness and imagination. Ethnic and Racial Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2026.2619629
2024
- Hinton, E., & Thomas, M. L. (2024). William Grant Still's From the Delta: A Work for Wind Band in Culture and Context. Journal of Band Research , 24-51. https://jbr-store.sellfy.store/p/william-grant-stills-from-the-delta-a-work-for-wind-band-in-culture-and-context/
- Thomas, M. L. (2024). Race and Reality: Towards a Social Aesthetics of Race. In M. Sehgal, & A. Wilkie (Eds.), More-Than-Human Aesthetics: Venturing Beyond the Bifurcation of Nature (pp. 71-86). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.9692635.
2023
Berry, R. K., & Thomas, M. (2023). Reading the Sensual in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room. Transatlantica, 2023(2). https://doi.org/10.4000/transatlantica.21591 [details]
2022
- Thomas, M. L. (2022). “’I Do It for the 'Gram and Do It for Myself’: Bearing Witness, Self-Archiving, and Avoiding Capture Under Racial Capitalism”. Amerikastudien, 67(2), 219-240.
2020
- Frankowski, A., & Thomas, M. L. (2020). Spectacle Lynching, Sovereignty, and Genocide:A Dialog with Alfred Frankowski. APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, 19(2), 6-9. https://www.apaonline.org/resource/collection/950518C1-3421-484C-8153-CDA6ED737182/BlackExperienceV19n2.pdf
2019
- Thomas, M. L. (2019). “Sensibility in Section 80: Kendrick Lamar’s Poetics of Problems, In C. Driscoll, M. Miller, & T. Pinn (Eds.), Kendrick Lamar and the Making of Black Meaning (pp. 51-66). Routledge.
2018
- Thomas, M. L. (2018). “Resisting the Habit of Tlön: Whitehead, Borges, and the Fictional Nature of Concepts”. Philosophy and Literature, 42(1), 81-96.
2017
- Thomas, M. L. (2017). Aesthetic Experience, Speculative Thought, and Civilized Life. In A. Wilkie, M. Savransky, & M. Rosengarten (Eds.), Speculative Research: Lures Towards Possible Futures (pp. 198). Routledge.
- Thomas, M. L. (2017). “Being a Problem: Aesthetic Violence and the Politics of Recognition”. Syndicate. https://syndicate.network/symposia/philosophy/the-post-racial-limits-of-memorialization/#being-a-problem
- Thomas, M. L. (2017). “Okulare Demokratie und demokratischeErfahrung.”. In D. Hammer, & M. Kajewski (Eds.), Okulare Demokratie –Der Bürger als Zuschauer (pp. 171-192). Transcript .
2016
- Thomas, M. L. (2016). Mead, Whitehead, and the Sociality of Nature. In H. Joas, & D. Huebner (Eds.), The Timeliness of G. H. Mead (pp. 185-205). University of Chicago Press.
2018
- Thomas, M. L. (2018). Common Sense and Racial Sensibility: Three Conversations on The Post-Racial Limits of Memorialization. APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience, 18(1), 5-9.
2020
- Thomas, M. L. (Author). (2020). “How to Partake in the Fuckery: A Roundtable Discussion on Hip-Hop, Gender, and Language”. Web publication or website http://aestheticsforbirds.com/2020/04/08/how-to-partake-in-the-fuckery-a-roundtable-discussion-on-hip-hop-gender-and-language/#thomas
Others
- Thomas, M. (organiser), Gerlek, S. (organiser), Jansen, Y. (organiser) & Krzyżanowska, K. (organiser) (30-1-2025 - 31-1-2025). OZSW ReMA Winter School in Philosophy, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
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Ancillary activities
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European Journal of American Studies
Member of Advisory board - responsible for reviewing journal submissions
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European Journal of American Studies
Berry, R. K., & Thomas, M. (2023). Reading the Sensual in James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room. Transatlantica, 2023(2).