Robert Gooding-Williams is Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Philosophy at Yale University. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018, and in 2020 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. The Yale Graduate School awarded Gooding-Williams a Wilbur Cross Medal in 2023. His books include Zarathustra's Dionysian Modernism (2001); Look, a Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture, and Politics (2005); and In the Shadow of Du Bois: Afro-Modern Political Thought in America (2009).