About

My name is Muhammad Velji and I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University

My main work is in political philosophy using post-colonial feminism but also both analytic and 20th Century continental philosophy.

I have competency and can teach philosophy of law and philosophy of race.

My dissertation is entitled, The Philosophy of Piety: How Muslim Women who Veil Allow us to Rethink Automaticity, Agency, Adaptive Preferences, and Autonomy

Check out the preprint of my forthcoming article in Inquiry

“Proposing an Islamic Virtue Ethics Beyond the Situationist Debates”

Also check out the preprint of my forthcoming article in Hypatia

“From Resistance to Creativity: A Post-Colonial Critique of Feminist Teleology.”

If you are attending the APT (Assoc. for Political Theory) conference this October or are in New Orleans for the APA (American Philosophical Assoc.) Central in February, please come say hi and come check out the presentation of my new book project Mundane Yet Powerful: The Meso-Level of the Political, Transformative Justice and Rethinking Social Change