Lawrence Ware

ABOUT
• Oklahoma State University Interim Director of Africana Studies
• Teaching Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University Philosophy Department
• Top Critic with Rotten Tomatoes

PUBLIC WRITING
• The New York Times, Regular Contributor
• Slate Magazine, Regular Contributor
• Huffington Post, Contributing Writer


SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES
• HufffPost Live
• Public Radio International
• National Public Radio
• TV One
• Canadian Broadcasting Channel
• WNYC, The Brian Lehrer Show

SELECTED EVENTS
• Keynote Speaker, John Brown University's MLK Program, 2018
• Keynote Speaker, Black Male Summit, University of Central Oklahoma, 2018
• Lecture on Race and Pedagogy, SUNY Stony Brook, 2017
• Panelist for Take Root Annual Conference, University of Oklahoma, February 2017
• Public Lecture on Social Diversity and Oklahoma Education for Leadership Oklahoma, February 2017
• Pubic Lecture on Black History, Northeastern Oklahoma College, February 2017
• Keynote, Pittsburgh State University's Black History Gospel Celebration, February 2017
• Workshop for NAACP National Convention, 2016
• Invited Lecture on Race and Voting, University of Oklahoma Center for Social Justice, 2016
• Presenter: Race in Public Policy Breakout Session, Oklahoma Policy Institute, 2016
• Keynote Speaker, MLK and Epistemic Violence, Langston University, January 2015
• Keynote Speaker, Black Nationalism and #BlackLivesMatter, The Big 12 Conference on Black Student Government, February 2015
• Public Lecture on The Theological Origins of White Supremacy, The Conference on Progressive Christianity in February 2015
• Public Lecture on Black Christianity and Black Resistance, National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Washington DC in May, 2015
• Public Lecture on The Confederate Flag and Epistemic Ignorance, Oklahoma University, October, 2015

Research Interests:

Philosophy of Race. Aesthetics.