Awards & Honors
Honorary Degree
International University of London Goldsmith · December 19, 2018 Walter Mignolo, William Hane Wannamaker Professor of Romance Studies, and an internationally known scholar of the cultural history of the modern/colonial world system, received an honorary degree from Goldsmiths, University of London, on Dec. 19. More about this awardDoctor Honoris Causa
International Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires · November 23, 2016 Walter Mignolo, William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke, received an honorary degree (Dr Honoris Causa) in the Humanities from the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, National University of Buenos Aires, on Nov. 23 in Argentina. The university cited Mignolo for his scholarship and teaching at Duke and elsewhere and as “an intellectual committed to social struggles and the expansion of human rights” and for his “theoretical contributions in the philosophical, political and literary fields, through innovative, challenging and provocative conceptualizations.” More about this awardInvited Fellow at STIAS (Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies)
International STIAS, Stellenbosch, South Africa · September 2014Honorary International Research Affiliate
International CISA, University of Wittswaterrand, South Africa · September 2014WITS Distinguished Scholars Program
International Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, · February 2013Professor Honorario, Honorific Distinction for Professional Achievements
International Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco, Chile · November 2012Advisor of BE-BOP 2012 and BE.BOP 2013 Decolonizing the Cold War
Other Unknown · August 2012Visiting Research Fellow
International The City University of Hong Kong · January 2012Denkplatz Visiting Distinguished Professor
International Universitat Bremen, Institute for Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies · June 2011International Board Member
International Soderton University Project on "Time, Memory, Representation: A multidisciplinary Program in the Transformation of Historical Consciousness" · June 2011International Advisory Board Member
International Advanced Institute for Crossdisciplinary Studies, The City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China · June 2011Master Erasmus Mundus Scholar
Other Unknown · March 2011Brackenridge Dintinguished Visiting Professorship
National The University of Texas at San Antonio, Department of English · March 2011Honor Committee Member of the three volumes project "Pensamiento filosofico Latinoamericano, Caribeño y Latino/a"
International Editorial Trotta, Madrid, Spain · July 2008Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize
National Modern Language Association · 1995In the News
Published June 25, 2024
Walter Mignolo is Retiring and Others are Stepping up to Continue His Legacy
Published April 11, 2024
Spring Books by Duke Authors: Meditations, Baseball, Rebels and Stomach Pains
Published May 25, 2021
May Books: Walter Mignolo "The Politics of Decolonial Investigations (On Decoloniality)"
Published September 19, 2019
In New Zealand, Mignolo Discusses Decolonial Aesthetics With Indigenous Scholars
