Andrés Fabián Henao Castro

I am an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

I have a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an M.A. in philosophy from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. I also held a postdoctoral fellowship with the Academy of Global Humanities and Critical Theory at the University of Bologna/Duke University (2018–2020), and the Karl Lowenstein Fellowship at Amherst College (2014).

My research seeks to rethink the relationship between politics and aesthetics in relation to gender-differentiated colonial logics of capitalist accumulation. While focused on that question, I have reimagined the relationship between ancient and contemporary political theory, via the prisms of decolonial theory, critical theory, psychoanalysis, settler colonial critique, and poststructuralism.

My research has also been published in Modern Drama, Philosophy and Global Affairs, differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, Critical Philosophy of Race, Settler Colonial Studies, Theoria, Theory & Event, Representation, Theatre Survey, Contemporary Political Theory, and Hypatia, among others.