Jane Anna Gordon received her B.A. with honors from Brown University, where she studied history and earned her national high school teaching certification in social studies. Upon graduating, she worked at the Institute for the Study of Elementary and Secondary Education which, at the time, was involved in the hiring of the Superintendent of Schools for Providence, RI and with seeking funding necessary to wire the Rhode Island Training School (the school of the local juvenile prison) for internet access. She achieved her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania as a William Penn Fellow and a Rowe Fellow, and she was the recipient of the Alvin Rubenstein Award for Distinguished Teaching by a Graduate Student in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She now teaches in the Department of Political Science and the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. She is the author of Why They Couldn't Wait: A Critique of the Black-Jewish Conflict Over Community Control in Ocean-Hill Brownsville, 1967-1971 (Routledge, 2001), which was listed by The Gotham Gazette as one of the four best books recently published on Civil Rights, Creolizing Political Theory: Reading Rousseau through Fanon (Fordham, 2014), co-author of Of Divine Warning: Reading Disaster in the Modern Age (Paradigm Publishers, 2009), co-editor, with Lewis Gordon, of A Companion to African-American Studies (Blackwell's, 2006), which was named eBook of the Month by NetLibrary in February 2007, and Not Only the Master's Tools (Paradigm Publishers, 2006). Her articles have appeared in the C.L.R. James Journal: A Review of Caribbean Ideas, differences, Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy, Journal of Contemporary Thought, The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, Journal of Political Theology, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Performance Research, SOULS, and Philosophical Studies in Education. Her recent essay, "Theorizing Contemporary Practices of Enslavement: A Portrait of the Old and New," won the American Political Science Association 2012 Foundations in Political Theory Best Paper Prize. She is the President of the Caribbean Philosophical Association.