Robert Gooding-Williams is the 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).