Education:

• PhD, Vanderbilt University (2015)
• Certificate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of South Florida (2010)
• MA, University of South Florida (2009)
• BA, University of North Florida (2006)

About:

Andrea Pitts (they/them/elle en español) is an interdisciplinary researcher and educator whose publications and pedagogy focus on carceral medicine and radical health activism, Latin American and U.S. Latina/x feminisms, prison and police abolition, queer migration studies, critical transgender politics, and disability justice. Andrea is also a section editor for Philosophy Compass, and co-organizes, along with Perry Zurn, the Trans Philosophy Project, a professional and research initiative dedicated to supporting trans, nonbinary, and gender variant philosophers. Their current book project Latina/x Abolitionist Feminisms: Incarceration, Agency, and Coalitional Politics examines the philosophical contributions made by U.S Latina/x activists and scholars critiquing state violence, prisons, and policing from the 1960s to the early 2000s. 

Research Areas:

Latin American and U.S. Latinx feminisms, critical prison studies, radical health activism, queer of color critique, transgender studies, and disability justice

Selected Publications:

• “An ‘Extension of the Occupier’s Hold’: Frantz Fanon on Psychiatry, Carcerality, and Etiology,” Chiasmi International 24 (2023): 293-310.
• “Dismantling Structural Racism in the Academic Residency Clinic,” coauthored with Rahul Vanjani and Pranav Aurora, New England Journal of Medicine 386, no. 21 (2022): 2054-2058. 
• “Gloria E. Anzaldúa and Crip Futurity in the Americas,” Disability and American Philosophies, edited by Daniel Brunson and Nate Jackson, 138-158. New York: Routledge, 2022. 
  
• Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance. Albany: SUNY Press, 2021. 
  
• “Challenging the Carceral Imaginary in a Digital Age: Epistemic Asymmetries and the Right to Be Forgotten,” Las Torres de Lucca: International Journal of Political
  Philosophy 19 (2021): 1-18. 

Selected Interviews and Videos:

• 2022, “Shelley Tremain Interviews Andrea Pitts,” Dialogues on Disability, May 18, 2022. BiopoliticalPhilosophy.com. https://biopoliticalphilosophy.com/2022/05/18/dialogues-on-disability-shelley-tremain-interviews-andrea-pitts/.  
• 2022, "Movement, Militarisation, and Monetisation: Examining Migration through a Disability Justice Framework," Philosophy, Disability, and Social Change 2 Conference, University of Oxford. https://youtu.be/9P-6r64QxBU.
• 2022, “Andrea Pitts on Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance,” Conversations in Atlantic Theory, podcast interview with John Drabinksi. https://atlantictheory.org/e20/.
• 2021, "The Philosophy of María Lugones Meets Transgender Studies: A Complex Conversation," Talia Mae Bettcher, PJ DiPietro, Hil Malatino, and Andrea J. Pitts, https://youtu.be/0p3yTmpFytk. 
• 2021, “Andrea J. Pitts, Nos/Otras: Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Multiplicitous Agency, and Resistance,” New Books in Philosophy, podcast interview with Sarah Tyson. https://newbooksnetwork.com/nos-otras-gloria-e-anzald%C3%BAa-multiplicitous-agency-and-resistance.

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