Faculty Profile

Miguel Gualdron Ramirez

Title
Assistant Professor
Department
Philosophy and Religion
College
College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences

    

    

      


                          

            
Curriculum Vitae

            

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Education

            



  

  


  
PhD, DePaul University, 2019. 
Major: Philosophy
MA, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2009. 
Major: Philosophy
BA, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2005. 
Major: Philosophy





          

        
                

          
Current Scheduled Teaching*


          
No current or future courses scheduled.


          
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Previous Scheduled Teaching*


            
                    

                    PHIL 3100.002, Aesthetics, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 6250.001, Aesthetics, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 5900.005, Special Problems, Spring 2023 
                    

                    PHIL 6900.004, Special Problems, Spring 2023 
                    

                    PHIL 6910.002, Special Problems, Spring 2023 
                    

                    PHIL 3130.001, Antiracist Thought, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 6960.002, Semester in Problems of Philosophy, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 3100.001, Aesthetics, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 3200.001, Philosophy in Literature, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 6900.004, Special Problems, Spring 2022 Syllabus
                    

                    PHIL 3120.001, Social and Political Philosophy, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 5300.001, Social and Political Philosophy, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 5300.600, Social and Political Philosophy, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 6900.705, Special Problems, Fall 2021 Syllabus
                    

                    PHIL 3100.001, Aesthetics, Summer 5W1 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 4900.705, Special Problems, Summer 5W1 2021 
                    

                    PHIL 3100.001, Aesthetics, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 4775.001, Latin American Philosophy, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    PHIL 5900.003, Special Problems, Spring 2021 Syllabus
                    

                    PHIL 6900.006, Special Problems, Spring 2021 Syllabus

          


          
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  higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for
  undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.
  

        

      

    

  

  
  	

	

	  

		

		   
Published Publications



  

  
Published Intellectual Contributions


  
Blog Post
Gualdron Ramirez, M.  (2021). Absolute Banana Republic Crap: Reflections on the “Assault” on the Capitol. Public Philosophy Blog of the American Philosophical Association. https://blog.apaonline.org/2021/01/11/absolute-banana-republic-crap-reflections-on-the-assault-on-the-capitol/
Book Chapter
Gualdron Ramirez, M.  (2020). 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. Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvwh8cwp.14
Book Review
Gualdron Ramirez, M.  (2022). Review of Colectivo Ayllu, Devuélvannos el Oro: Cosmovisiones perversas y acciones anticoloniales (Madrid: Matadero. Centro de Residencias Artísticas, 2018). Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2022.38
Gualdron Ramirez, M.  (2021). Review of Michael Monahan (ed.), Creolizing Hegel, (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017). Inter-American Journal of Philosophy. 12(1), 40-45.  Texas A&M:. https://ijp.tamu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Creolizing_Hegel_Review_by_Miguel_Gualdro%CC%81n_Rami%CC%81rez.pdf
Gualdron Ramirez, M.  (2021). Review of John Drabinski, Glissant and the Middle Passage (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019). Philosophy Today. 65(2), 425-431. 
Gualdron Ramirez, M.  (2020). Review of Andrea Shaw Nevins, Working Juju: Representations of the Caribbean Fantastic. Series XXIV, . 
Journal Article
Gualdron Ramirez, M., Acosta, M.  (2019). Introduction: Philosophy in and from Colombia. XI(3), . Philosophical Readings. 
Gualdron Ramirez, M.  (2019). Transversality as disruption and connection: On the possibilities and limits of using the framework of trauma in Glissant’s philosophy of Caribbean history. XI(3), . https://virgo.unive.it/ojs2/index.php/phr/article/view/72
Gualdron Ramirez, M.  (2018). Resistance and expanse in Nuestra América: a contemporary analysis of José Martí in light of Édouard Glissant and Gloria Anzaldúa. 46(2), .  Baltimore MD: diacritics / John Hopkins University Press. https://muse-jhu-edu.libproxy.library.unt.edu/article/723182
Gualdron Ramirez, M.  (2016). Pensar con las manos. Otra mirada a las relaciones entre arte y memoria en la obra de Óscar Muñoz. 
Gualdron Ramirez, M.  (2012). Antígona: ¿lugar imposible de una comunidad?. 
Gualdron Ramirez, M.  (2010). El Mutuo Reconocimiento como concepto del Espíritu. Apuntes sobre el concepto de Anerkennung en la Fenomenología del Espíritu. 
Gualdron Ramirez, M.  (2007). ¿Juzgar o actuar?. 
Special Journal Issue
Gualdron Ramirez, M., Acosta, M.  (2019). Philosophy in Colombia. XI(3), .  Italy: Philosophical Readings. 
Translation or Transcription
Menke, C., Gualdron Ramirez, M.  (2020). Por qué el derecho es violento (y debería reconocerlo) [Recht und Gewalt].  Buenos Aires: Siglo XXI Editores. 
Reck, H. U., Gualdron Ramirez, M.  (2018). En Medio: Ensayos sobre lo imaginarion de las artes y los medios [In-Zwischen].  Bogota: Universidad Nacional de Colombia. 
Gualdron Ramirez, M., Harrasser, K.  (2017). Cuerpo 2.0: Sobre la Expansibilidad Técnica del Ser Humano [Körper 2.0. Über die technische Erweiterbarkeit des Menschen]. 



	
		
		
	  

	

	

  
    
	

	

	  

		

		   
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Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research  

 	 
	 	 
  
Grant - Research   
Gualdron Ramirez, M., "Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant," Sponsored by Office of the Provost of Academic Affairs, UNT, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2022 – 2022).
Gualdron Ramirez, M., "Scholarly and Creativity Award (SCA)," Sponsored by UNT CLASS, University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (January 1, 2022 – July 31, 2022).
Gualdron Ramirez, M., "Oxford Research Scholar, Oxford College of Emory University," Sponsored by Oxford College of Emory University, Private, $1000 Funded. (2020 – 2020).
Gualdron Ramirez, M., "Oxford Research Scholar," Sponsored by Oxford College of Emory University, Private, $1000 Funded. (2019 – 2020).
Gualdron Ramirez, M., "Graduate Research Funding," Sponsored by DePaul University, Private, $1000 Funded. (2018 – 2020).
Gualdron Ramirez, M., "Oxford Research Scholar," Sponsored by Oxford College of Emory University, Private, $1000 Funded. (2018 – 2020).
Grant - Teaching   
Narahara, K. (Principal), Carey, C. (Supporting), Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Supporting), Carrington, J. (Supporting), "Afro-Brazilian Religions, Black Anthropologies, and Academic Diversity," Sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $2500 Funded. (November 4, 2022 – August 10, 2023).



	
		
		
	  

	

	

	
	

  
  
  

  	

		

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