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Cornel West is a philosopher, theologian, author, and public intellectual whose academic work addresses race, democracy, religion, and social philosophy. He earned a PhD in philosophy from Princeton University in 1980 and has held faculty appointments at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. His books include Race Matters (1993), Democracy Matters (2004), and Black Theology and Marxist Thought (1979). Princeton lists him as Professor Emeritus; this biography does not make claims about his current protest activity.