Yasin Al-Amin

Yasin’s research interests lie in Critical Decolonial Philosophy, Philosophy of Liberation, 19th Century German Philosophy, and the intersection between these areas. His dissertation examines the concept of The Other in the work of decolonial philosopher Franz Omar Fanon. In particular, it aims to distinguish Fanon’s concept of the colonized and racialized Other from the general articulation of the Other as first conceived by traditional figures in 19th Century German Philosophy, including Kant, Fichte, Hegel, and Nietzsche.

At Stanford, Yasin has been an Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Doctoral Fellow and was awarded the School of Humanities and Sciences Fellowship. Prior to beginning his studies at Stanford, Yasin was a Predoctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, where he was an Emerging Scholar in Political Science, and earned a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley, where he was a Ronald E. McNair Scholar and graduated with Highest Distinction. He is an associate editor for the Journal of Labor and Society.