Charles Mills is a Professorin the Department of Philosophy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1985, and previously taught at the University of Oklahoma . His main research interests are in radical and oppositional political theory, particularly around issues of class, gender, and race. He has published numerous articles on Marxism, critical race theory, and African-American philosophy, and has two books on race from Cornell University Press: The Racial Contract (1997) and Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (1998). A third book is forthcoming in Dec. 2003 in Rowman Littlefield's "New Critical Theory" series: From Class to Race: Essays in White Marxism and Black Radicalism . A past UIC University Scholar (1999-2002), Mills will be a Fellow at the UIC Institute for the Humanities in 2003-04, where he will be working on a joint book with Carole Pateman tentatively titled Contract and Domination .