Douglas Ficek is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Haven, where he teaches a wide variety of courses – from introductory courses on ethics and logic, to more advanced courses on the philosophies of race, religion, and liberation. He currently researches the decolonial, liberatory philosophy of Frantz Fanon as well as the theoretical and practical problem of whiteness. He has published articles and review essays in Radical Philosophy Review, Philosophy & Social Criticism, and Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews; he also contributed book chapters to Living Fanon: Global Perspectives (2011), edited by Nigel C. Gibson, and The Onion and Philosophy (2011), edited by Sharon M. Kaye. Douglas is currently working on a book about whiteness and idolatry.