Mechthild Nagel

Mechthild Nagel is Professor of Philosophy & Africana Studies and Director of the Center for Ethics, Peace, and Social Justice at the State University of New York, College at Cortland, USA. Dr. Nagel is also a visiting professor at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany and Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain. She is author of eight books. Her most recent co-edited volume is Contesting Carceral Logic: Towards Abolitionist Futures (Routledge, 2022). She writes on ethics of play,...See more

Mechthild Nagel is Professor of Philosophy & Africana Studies and Director of the Center for Ethics, Peace, and Social Justice at the State University of New York, College at Cortland, USA. Dr. Nagel is also a visiting professor at Fulda University of Applied Sciences, Germany and Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain. She is author of eight books. Her most recent co-edited volume is Contesting Carceral Logic: Towards Abolitionist Futures (Routledge, 2022). She writes on ethics of play, critical justice studies, global feminist studies, and African philosophy. Dr. Nagel is founder and editor-in-chief of the online feminist journal Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's and Gender Studies. See less