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Biography
Jason D. Hill was born and raised in Jamaica and migrated to the
United States in 1985 at the age of 20. He earned his Ph.D. in
philosophy from Purdue University in 1998. He is Associate Professor
of philosophy at De Paul University in Chicago. His areas of specialization
are in ethics and political philosophy, with a special passion
reserved for human rights and cosmopolitanism.
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He is the author of Becoming a Cosmopolitan: What it Means to
be a Human Being in the New Millennium, an academic nonfiction book
for a general readership published in 2000 by Rowman and Littlefield.
Dr. Hill is also the author of numerous articles published in Salon,
The Detroit News, Issues and Views, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution,
and Destiny Magazine. He has appeared on several radio and television
programmes including Wisconsin, New York, Toronto, and Chicago public
radio and NBC’s Today Show as a commentator with host Mike
Leonard.
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Dr. Hill has extensive experience in writing for a large audience.
His training has its roots in the harsh realities of international
political journalism in Jamaica. After graduating from high school
he began work there as a reporter at the largest newspaper in
the Caribbean, The Gleaner. There he wrote feature stories, theatre,
book and art reviews, hard news, and, when time permitted, he
did some court reporting. As a result he has a no-nonsense, down
to earth approach to writing. At the same time, this concreteness
is always tempered by his passion for ideas and reverence for
coherent theory.
He has just completed his second book on cosmopolitanism, and
is also working on another novel. |
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