Robert Gooding-Williams is Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Philosophy. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2018 and in 2020 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 2023, the Yale GSAS Alumni Association awarded Gooding-Williams the Wilbur Cross Medal, the highest honor that Yale GSAS bestows on alumni. His most recent book, Democracy and Beauty: The Political Aesthetics of W.E.B. Du Bois, is based on his Leonard Hastings Schoff Memorial Lectures and was published by Columbia University Press in the spring of 2025.
