Aaron Kamugisha is the Ruth Simmons Professor of Africana Studies at Smith College, and a scholar of the social, political and cultural thought of the African diaspora. He serves on the editorial boards of the following journals: Small Axe: A Journal of Caribbean Criticism, Social and Economic Studies, and the Journal of West Indian Literature. He is also the co-executive director of the Race and Resistance book series with Peter Lang Publishers, and an inaugural member of the Other Universals transnational research collective.

His primary intellectual and research interests encompass the intellectual history and the social, political and cultural thought of the African Diaspora. His latest book, Beyond Coloniality: Citizenship and Freedom in the Caribbean Intellectual Freedom was published by Indiana University Press with a simultaneous edition by University of Witwatersrand Press in March 2019. He is also the editor of six edited collections and five special issues of journals on Caribbean and Africana thought.