Timothy Huzar

• Uniqueness, relationality, and vulnerability in politics, ethics, ontology, and cultural competency.
• Continental philosophy and contemporary critical theory.
• U.S. Black studies and Black feminist thought.
• Fugitive and wayward practices of refusal in political theory.
• Intersections of sustainability education and cultural competency.
• Pedagogic scholarship on vulnerability, decentring grading, and emancipatory education, with a focus on Rancière's work.

Tim's current research focuses on two main projects. The first is a monograph developing the concept of apprehension, provisionally titled "Caring Beyond Recognition: Ten Theses on Apprehension". The second examines the intersection of Black critical theory and European critical thought, focusing on the work of Fred Moten and Jacques Rancière, under the working title "Determined Indeterminacies: Singularity and Blackness as Antipolitical Falsums". He welcomes PhD applications in areas related to his research interests. Tim is currently co-supervising a PhD student working on Gilles Deleuze's notion of immanence and its relationship to anarchist thought and practice.

I am interested in supervising work on Adriana Cavarero, feminist theories of vulnerability, U.S. black studies scholarship, contemporary critical theory, political theory, continental philosophy, and cultural competency, as well as other cognate disciplines, themes and traditions. 

Tim completed his PhD at the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics, University of Brighton in 2017. His thesis explored themes of visibility in the work of Jacques Rancière, Judith Butler and Adriana Cavarero. He concluded by examining how this emphasis on visibility as ethically and politically important is challenged by forms of fugitivity in the context of the transatlantic slave trade and Black radical traditions, as articulated in the scholarship of Saidiya Hartman and Fred Moten.

Since then, Tim's research has evolved to focus on the concept of 'apprehension' as a mode of attending to another's uniqueness that goes beyond representation or recognition. This work is grounded in continental philosophy and feminist thought, extending to engage with scholars in U.S. Black studies and Black feminist thought.

Tim has taught at several universities in south-east England and has experience as a medical science journalist. Currently, he is a Lecturer in Cultural Competency Education in the Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities at King's College London, where he teaches cultural competency modules and contributes to clinical programmes in the area of cultural competency.