Mohamed Amer Meziane holds a PhD in Philosophy and Intellectual History from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. After teaching at Columbia University as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Institutes for Religion, Culture and Public Life and African Studies, he joined Brown University. He is the author of The States of the Earth which examines how the disenchantment of empires led to the Anthropocene during the 19th century. The book won the Albertine Prize for non-fiction in 2023, was published in English in April 2024 by Verso Books.
Mohamed Amer Meziane published in the following peer-reviewed academic journals: Review of Middle East Studies (RoMes), Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (CESAAME), Critical Times, Qui Parle?, Symposium: Journal of the Canadian Association for Continental Philosophy, Philosophy Today, SubStance, Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Review of the Makerere Institute for Social Research (MISR), Political Theology, Raisons politiques, Socio-Anthropologie, Le Journal des anthropologues, Multitudes, Les Temps qui restent (ex-Les Temps Modernes), among others. He recently contributed to the Oxford Companion to Cosmopolitanism edited by Prathama Banerjee, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Sanjay Seth, Lisa Wedeen (forthcoming with Oxford University Press).
His second book was published in French in 2023. It is titled: Au bord des mondes. Vers une anthropologie métaphysique (Alongside Worlds: Towards a Metaphysical Anthropology) which is under translation in English and Italian. The book is a philosophical engagement with some conceptual assumptions of "the ontological turn", with a focus on French anthropological structuralism. The book provoked an ongoing conversation between anthropology and philosophy. In 2024, he was a receipient of the Salomon Faculty Research Award to pursue historical and philosophical work on the metaphysics of amir 'Abd al-Qadir al-Jazaïri. He is currently working on a new book manuscript titled The Sacrifice of Heaven (Le sacrifice du ciel, Paris, Le Seuil, 2026).
At Brown University, Mohamed Amer Meziane on Global Critical Theory by connecting both Western and non-Western canons. His seminars focus on Hegelianism and Marxisms, Continental Philosophy, Afro-Arab Contemporary Theory and Literature with a focus on the Francophone canon in the Maghreb and the Caribbean.
