Biography
Gail M. Presbey is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at University of Detroit Mercy, and Director of the James Carney Latin American Solidarity Archives. She engages in interdisciplinary work that involves philosophy, world history, oral history, and political theory. Her areas of expertise are philosophy of nonviolence and African philosophy, with current studies on Africa, Latin America, Mohandas Gandhi's movement, feminism, and Pan-Africanism. She has written a book on The Life and Thought of H. Odera Oruka (Bloomsbury, 2023) as well as four edited books and over sixty articles. She is currently President of the Peace History Society.