Rate My Professor Miguel Gualdron Ramirez

Miguel Gualdrón Ramírez is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon, where he joined in 2023. He earned his B.A. in Philosophy in 2005 and M.A. in Philosophy in 2009 (Magna Cum Laude) from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, followed by a Ph.D. in Philosophy with Distinction from DePaul University in 2019. His dissertation, titled "Poetics of the Abyss: History, Aesthetics, and Decoloniality in Édouard Glissant's Early Thought," explores Caribbean thought through Glissant's concepts of antillanité and archipelagic thought in relation to the Middle Passage and decolonization. Prior to his current position, he served as Assistant Professor in the Philosophy and Religion Department at the University of North Texas from 2021 to 2023, Visiting Professor of Philosophy at Oxford College of Emory University from 2018 to 2020, and Graduate Instructor at DePaul University from 2014 to 2017. Ramírez has received numerous awards and fellowships, including the 2023 New Junior Faculty Research Award from the University of Oregon's Office of the Vice President for Research & Innovation, the 2022 Best Submission by a Junior Scholar at the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Conference for his paper "Antiblackness in Latin American Thought: Two Versions of the Mestizo Model," the 2022 Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant from the University of North Texas, and multiple Oxford Research Scholar grants from 2018 to 2020, as well as various graduate research fundings from DePaul University.

His research specializes in Latin American and Africana decolonial philosophy, aesthetics, philosophy of race, and the intersections of gender-race constructions under coloniality. He examines political and aesthetic theories that critique colonial self-understanding and foster epistemologies of resistance, with a focus on relations among colonized communities in the Americas. Currently, he is developing two book projects: "Decolonial Aesthetics: Theory and Praxis from the Americas" (under contract with Indiana University Press) and "Fundamentals of Anti-Blackness in Latin American Thought." Key publications include "Two Versions of the Mestizo Model: Toward a Theory of Anti-Blackness in Latin American Thought" (Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 2023), "The Dialectics of Critique and Hope: Reflections on Colombia’s New Government" co-authored with Nathalia Hernández Vidal (Human Geography, 2023), "Aesthetic Resistance from the Andes and Beyond: Possibilities and Limits of Anticolonial Sensing" (Research and Phenomenology, 2023), "To ‘Stay Where You Are’ as a Decolonial Gesture: Glissant’s Philosophy of Caribbean History in the Context of Césaire and Fanon" (Memory, Migration and (De)colonisation in the Caribbean and Beyond, 2020), and "Resistance and Expanse in Nuestra América: A Contemporary Analysis of José Martí in Light of Édouard Glissant and Gloria Anzaldúa" (diacritics, 2018). His scholarship has been cited 93 times according to Google Scholar.