David Scott

David Scott is a professor of anthropology at Columbia University. As an Alliance visiting professor in Paris in 2012-13, he taught a nine-week seminar on Frantz Fanon to students from EHESS and Paris 1, reading Peau noire, masques blancs and Les damnés de la terre and examining how Fanon engaged with négritude, surrealism, existentialism, Marxism and psychoanalysis in thinking through racism and colonialism.