Cintia Martinez Velasco

Cintia Martinez Velasco, was 2019-2020 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin American Critical Theory at Northwestern University, holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where she also holds a Bachelor and Master’s degree in Philosophy. She has been a board member of the International Association of Women Philosophers since 2018 and has been offering the course “Philosophical debates in Feminism” since 2017. The main topics of her research are the ontology of sex and gender, feminist philosophy and decolonial philosophy, and Latin American philosophy.

During her graduate studies at UNAM she completed residencies as a visiting researcher at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) and the City University of New York (CUNY). In 2012 she was also a visiting scholar in the graduate program of Latin American Philosophy at Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino (Bogotá), where she became a member of Bartolome de las Casas group. In 2019 she was a pre-doctoral fellow in the Critical Theory in the Global South initiative at Northwestern University, working with Professor Jose Medina on the subproject: Critical Epistemology, Knowing through Gender and the Decolonial. She has participated in and organized a number of national and international conferences regarding Feminist Philosophy.