https://www.philipyaure.com/home daily 1.0 2026-02-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b81aae5b10598702dcecae1/94ed7e80-4014-44fa-9e0e-48444bd98b05/PFD-6260.jpg Home I am an assistant professor of philosophy at Virginia Tech. For the 2025-26 academic year, I am also a Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress’s John W. Kluge Center. I work in social and political philosophy and the history of African American political thought. I employ historical, including archival, methods to explore how people forge political community in the face of domination and oppression. My research focuses on the political thought of Black American abolitionists in the antebellum period, and Black American labor organizers in the mid-20th century. My book, Seizing Citizenship: Frederick Douglass’s Abolitionist Republicanism, is out now from Oxford University Press. Prior to Virginia Tech, I completed a PhD in philosophy at Columbia University, and a BA in philosophy and medieval studies at the University of Chicago. Here is my CV. You can contact me at philipyaure[at]vt[dot]edu My last name is pronounced "your." https://www.philipyaure.com/research daily 0.75 2026-03-27 https://www.philipyaure.com/teaching daily 0.75 2026-03-27 https://www.philipyaure.com/seizing-citizenship daily 0.75 2025-09-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5b81aae5b10598702dcecae1/70a2e925-5d5c-453e-962b-6430e67804be/Book+Cover.jpg Seizing Citizenship - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.philipyaure.com/works-in-progress daily 0.75 2025-09-30 https://www.philipyaure.com/read-me daily 0.75 2025-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/53dbbca5e4b090699000a2b6/1408024912028-NID23B61L4HJ0B3VYYKL/image-asset.png Read Me Photography by Julia Robbs