Professor Paget Henry

Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Africana Studies

Paget Henry is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Africana Studies at Brown University. His specializations are Dependency Theory, Caribbean Political Economy, Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Art and Literature, Africana Philosophy and Religion, Race and Ethnic Relations, Poststructuralism, and Critical Theory. He has authored several notable books and written over fifty articles, essays, and reviews published in esteemed journals such as Caribbean Quarterly, Social and Economic Studies, and The Cornell Journal of Social Relations. Additionally, he is editor of The C.L.R. James Journal and co-editor of the Routledge series Africana Thought. He also holds external examiner roles at the University of the West Indies and the University of Guyana. Furthermore, Professor Henry has garnered numerous distinguished awards and fellowships, including Research Fellow at the Center for Inter-American Relations, Research Fellow at the Bildner Center for Western Hemispheric Studies, and the Frederick Sperling Award in Philosophy (City College, 1970).