Aaron Kamugisha is the Ruth Simmons Professor of Africana Studies at Smith College. He is the editor of seven books and six special issues of journals on Caribbean and Africana thought, and author of Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Tradition (Indiana University Press, 2019). He is currently a member of the editorial advisory board for the journals Social and Economic Studies and the Journal of West Indian Literature, and a member of the editorial collective of the journal Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism.