Amy Nigh

Education

MA (Philosophy) University of Oregon, 2018
BA (Spanish Languages and Literatures) Goucher College, 2009

Research Interests

Philosophy of History
19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy (esp. Foucault)
Genealogy
Decolonial Thought

Select Presentations

"Criticalizing Decolonial Thought: What Eurocentrism and World History Have in Common" 50 Años Después de Adorno/50 Years After Adorno, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico, November 2019.

"How Method Travels: Genealogy in Foucault and Castro-Gómez" (co-author with Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson), Critical Genealogies Workshop, University of Oregon, May 2019.

"Doing Non-Histories with Non-Methods: On Decolonial Praxis and Non-Historical Histories" Resistant Imaginations Conference, University of Oregon, February 2019.

Publications

"How Method Travels: Genealogy in Foucault and Castro-Gómez" with Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson in Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy Special Issue "Genealogy and Political Philosophy" (2020)

Erlenbusch-Anderson, V. & Nigh, A. (2020, October 27). Genealogy. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190201098.013.978 

Contact

Office: Clement Hall 313
Office Hours: By appointment
Email: anigh@memphis.edu