Andrea Cassatella is an educator, scholar and activist trained in the humanities, social sciences, and psychology. He is currently Senior Research Fellow at Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, where he teaches and researches at the intersections between the political, cultural and psychological domains, and holds his clinical practice. Before joining Makerere, he was a Lecturer in Social Sciences at the University of Toronto Scarborough (2015-2016), and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Humanities at Al Quds University, Palestine (2017- 2019). He also held research fellowships at Columbia Global Centers | Amman (2019-2020), University of Cape Town (2020), Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (2020), and the Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa, University of Ghana (2021). His recent book is Beyond the Secular: Jacques Derrida and the Theological-Political Complex (2023).
His work has appeared in Contemporary Political Theory, Ratio Juris, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Bamidbar, Cultural Critique, African Studies, Safundi, Discover Psychology, and the MISR Review. Prior to his scholarly career, he served as Community Service Officer for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees missions in Bosnia Herzegovina and Djibouti.