About Me

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Bill E. Lawson is an Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill.  His academic specialization is African-American Philosophy and Social and Political Philosophy. His published works include Pictures and Power: Imaging and Imagining Frederick Douglass 1818-2018,(2017) edited with Celeste-Marie Bernier, Liverpool University Press; Pragmatism and the Problem of Race, (2004) edited with Donald Koch, Indiana University Press; Faces of Environmental Racism, Second Edition, (2001) edited with Laura Westra, Rowman & Littlefield; Between  Slavery and Freedom (1993) co-authored with Howard McGary, Indiana University Press, and numerous scholarly articles He has testified before a United States Congressional Subcommittee on the issue of Welfare Reform. He was a 2011-12 University of Liverpool–Fulbright Fellow at the University of Liverpool UK.  He is married to Dr. Renee Sanders-Lawson. They have two sons, William and Omar. He is a Vietnam veteran and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. member.