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Frank M. Kirkland was elected to the Hunter Philosophy faculty in 1985, and was chairperson of the department from the start of July 1998 to the end of June 2010. He was elected to the doctoral faculty of the PhD Program in Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center in spring 1989, and elected as chairperson of the APA standing Committee on the Status of Blacks in Philosophy in July 1999 to the end of June 2002. He is currently serving a 3-year term on the Program Committee of the APA's Eastern Division till June 2016. Professor Kirkland taught briefly at the University of Oklahoma, and had 2 two-year stretches of study at both the University of Munich and University of Tubingen in Germany. Prof. Kirkland's work centers on Kant, 19th and 20th Century European Philosophy, and Africana Philosophy. His work has focused on Kant, Hegelian and Husserlian idealisms as well as on the modernism of the African-diasporic intellectual traditions. He has long been at work on a single-authored volume tentatively entitled Hegelian Idealism and the Black Atlantic.