About me
Mohamed Amer Meziane holds a PhD in Philosophy and Intellectual History from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. After teaching at Columbia University as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life, he joined Brown University as an Assistant Professor of Francophone and Middle East Studies. He is the author of The States of the Earth: An Ecological and Racial History of Secularization. The book won the Albertine Prize for non-fiction in 2023 and was published in English in April 2024 by Verso Books.
His second book was published in French in 2023. It is titled: Au bord des mondes. Vers une anthropologie métaphysique (At the Edge of the Worlds: Towards a Metaphysical Anthropology. His work reaches both an Academic and non-Academic audiencesin Europe and Africa, with talks at The Collège de France, MoMa PS1, LuMA, The Night of Ideas in New York or Dakar as well as in Morocco. His books have been reviewed in several media such as Le Monde, Mediapart and The Los Angeles Review of Books. He is also invited to write texts about several contemporary artists for exhibitions catalogs, art galleries or journals such as Flash Art.