Mechthild Nagel

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Professor; Philosophy and Editor-in-Chief
Affiliation	State University of New York at Cortland
Email	nagelm@cortland.edu
Mailing Address	Philosophy Department SUNY Cortland POB 2000 Cortland, New York 13045 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 607-753-2013 fax: 607-753-4114
Websites	http://web.cortland.edu/nagelm/ http://wagadu.org/
Research Interests	Prison in Africa ; African peace making approaches. Areas of Specialty: Social/Political Philosophy, Ethics and Human Rights, Feminist Philosophy, 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy, Africana Philosophy, Philosophy of Prisons and Peace Studies
Publications	1. Prisons and Punishment: Reconsidering Global Penality (with Seth Asumah), Africa World Press, 2007 (238pp.). 2. The Hydropolitics of Africa: A Contemporary Challenge (with M. Kitissou, M. Ndulo, M. Grieco), Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007. 3. Masking the Abject: A Genealogy of Play, Lexington Books, 2002 (128 pp.). 4. Race, Class and Community Identity (with Andrew Light), Humanity Books, 2000 (233pp.).
Keywords	security ; prisons ; political philosophy ; ethics ; human rights ; feminism ; Africana philosophy.