Osiris González Romero Joins GloPhi to Research Native American Philosophies in Mesoamerica
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We are delighted to welcome Dr. Osiris González Romero as a Long-Term Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies “Philosophizing in a Globalized World” at the University of Hildesheim. He will be part of GloPhi from March 2026 to February 2027.
Osiris González Romero is a scholar of Native American philosophies, intercultural philosophy, Mesoamerican and Latin American studies, psychedelic studies, and aesthetics.
Before joining GloPhi, he held fellowships and research positions at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School, the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas Luis Villoro at UMSNH in Mexico, and the University of Saskatchewan in Canada. He earned his PhD on the Heritage of Indigenous Peoples from Leiden University.
At GloPhi, he will work on his research project “Native American Philosophies in a Globalized World (Mesoamerica).” The project examines philosophical works published between 1945 and 2025 by Indigenous and Native American researchers in Mexico, asking how these works can be understood within broader histories of ideas and global philosophy.
A central aim is to develop methodological reflections for the study of Native American philosophies, with particular attention to Nahuatl, Maya, and Zapotec philosophy.
His project addresses crucial questions for the work of our Center: How can Native American philosophies be studied without reducing them to the past or treating them as merely as “traditions”? How can their philosophical significance be recognized in the face of epistemic injustice? What role do Indigenous languages play in opening up different modes of philosophical thought? And how can we approach the difficulty of translating concepts across different ontological, epistemic, and social orders without reducing their meaning to our own symbolic taxonomy?
We warmly welcome Osiris González Romero to GloPhi and look forward to the conversations, research perspectives, and collaborations that his work will bring to our Center.
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