Delio Vasquez

Delio Vásquez holds a PhD in the History of Consciousness from the University of California Santa Cruz with concentrations in Politics and Feminist Studies, an MA in Linguistics from the City University of New York Graduate Center, and a BA from the University of Chicago. He has also held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at American University and has taught with the San Quentin Prison University Project at Mount Tamalpais College. His research combines modern political theory, Black Studies, and decolonial thought to examine how our modern idea of the criminal developed through colonial racial capitalism, how it has been contested by twentieth century social movements, and how it has affected our capacity under modernity to empathize with the experiences and suffering of the poor. He is working on a book project on the limits of the concepts of war and sovereignty for understanding social crime. Delio was born and raised in the Bronx.