This is the personal scholarship page for Timothy Gutmann. My PhD in religion is from the University of Chicago. I focus on Islamic and East Asian traditions.
My research and teaching also focus on intellectual and social history, epistemology and philosophy of education, the politics of belonging and the minority question, and critical theory and postcolonial thought.
Having taught at the UChicago and elsewhere, I am Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Southern Mississippi. I split my time between Hattiesburg, Mississippi and Kenwood, Chicago.
Here is a piece I wrote for Medium on nationalism, prejudice against Asian and Asian-American people, and critical coverage of China in the US press. I argue that while anti-Asian prejudice is as easy to oppose as it is to find, the implicit “new Cold War” stance taken in much of the US media obscures geopolitical, ecological, and macroeconomic problems where more collaboration is urgently needed.