Education
University of California, Riverside, Ph.D., Philosophy, 2002
University of California, Riverside, M. A., Philosophy, 1995
Reed College, Portland, Oregon, B. A., Philosophy, 1992
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy, American Pragmatism, and Latin American Philosophy
Areas of Competence
Peace and Justice Studies, Philosophy of Law, Ethics, Critical Theory
Professional Experience
Professor, Philosophy, Oregon State University 2018-Present
Associate Professor, Philosophy, Oregon State University 2007-2018
Visiting Professor, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Law School International Program, Rosario, Argentina, 2010 (Spring Semester)
Visiting Professor, Universidad Latina de America, Morelia, Mexico, 2004 (Fall Semester)
Assistant Professor, Philosophy Department, Oregon State University 2001-2007
Adjunct Instructor, Austin Community College, 1999-2001
Adjunct Instructor, St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas 1999
Associate Instructor, University of California, Riverside, 1997
Honors and Awards
Thomas Meehan Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Liberal Arts, Oregon State University. 2013
Best Op-Ed Award, American Philosophical Association Committee on Public Philosophy. 2012
Ila and John Mellow Award for Best Paper Advancing the American Philosophical Tradition, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. 2003
Douglas Greenlee Award for Best Paper by Recent Ph.D or Graduate Student, Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. 2003
Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Graduate Division, University of California, Riverside. 1997
Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Graduate Student Association, University of California, Riverside. 1995
Eugene Cotes-Robles Fellowship, University of California, Riverside. 1993-1995.
Presentations
Peer Reviewed Conference Lectures
“’Upon the Gothic Ashes’: Emerson and Lorenzo de Zavala on Slavery and WhiteSupremacy in the United States of North America.” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Annual Meeting, University of Oregon/Oregon State University March 2016.
“A Morally Responsible Response to the Baltimore Uprising: Lessons on Violence from Cesar Chavez and Martin Luther King, Jr.” Concerned Philosophers for Peace Annual Conference, Loyola Maryland University, October 2015.
“The Philosophical Gift of Brown Folks: Mexican American Philosophy in the US” Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World Annual Conference, Western Carolina University, July 2015.
“Building the Mexican American Canon.”Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World Group Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division April 2015
“Mirrors of Empire: William James and Jose Enrique Rodo on Imperial America” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Annual Meeting, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan. March 2015
“Why American Philosophers Should Read Latin American Thought” Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World Annual Conference, San Jose State University. July 2014.
“The Immigrant Workers Social Justice Reality Tour. ”Peace and Conflict Studies Consortium Meeting, Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon. April 2014
“W.E.B. Du Bois and the Moral Dimensions of American Democracy” Northwest Philosophy Conference, Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon. October 2013
“W.E.B. Du Bois, American Democracy, and the Idea of Racial Contribution” Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World Annual Conference,Estes Park, Colorado. July 2013.
“From Plymouth Rock to Ellis Island: Louis Adamic on Toleration and Group Flourishing in Deep Democracy” Sixteenth Summer Institute in American Philosophy, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. July 2013
“Liberating the Local Social Imagination: The Occupy Movement Emergence in Corvallis.” Peace and Conflict Studies Consortium Annual Meeting, Corvallis, Oregon. February 2013
Commentary on Ramona Ilea’s “Philosophy and Activism.” Annual Northwest Philosophy Conference, Corvallis, Oregon. November 2012
“Cesar Chavez, Undocumented Immigrants, and American Democracy.” Concerned Philosophers for Peace Annual Conference, Austin, Texas. November 2011
“Aliens and Neighbors: Reframing the Illegal Immigration Debate.” Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World Annual Conference, Corvallis, Oregon. July 2011.
“Hospitality as a Democratic Practice.” Fourteenth Annual Summer Institute in American Philosophy, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. July 2011
“Aliens and Neighbors: Jane Addams and the Reframing of the “Illegal.” Immigration Debate” Radical Philosophy Association Group Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Diego. April 2011
“Frontiers of Democracy: Sarmiento and Royce on the Geography of Self-governing Communities” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, Annual Meeting, Eastern Washington University, Spokane, Washington. March 2011
“Race and Latin American Philosophy” Seminar Leader, Thirteenth Annual Summer Institute in American Philosophy, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. July 2010
“Jose Vasconcelos and North American White Supremacy” Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World Annual Conference,Corvallis, Oregon. July 2010
“Jose Vasconcelos, White Supremacy, and the Silence of American Pragmatism” First International Conference on Pragmatism and the Hispanic/Latino World, Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas. February 2010.
“Interculturalism and American Democracy” Radical Philosophy Association Group Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Vancouver, British Columbia. April 2009.
“Cesar Chavez and the Foundations of American Democracy” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Annual Conference, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. March 2009.
“Cesar Chavez, Ward Churchill, and the Promises of Pacifism” Northwest Philosophy Conference, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. December 2008.
“Pragmatism, Latino Intercultural Citizenship, and the Transformation of American Democracy” North American Society for Social Philosophy Annual Conference, University of Portland, Portland, Oregon. July 2008.
“A Theory of Nonviolent Civic Direct Action.” Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World Annual Conference, Winter Park, Colorado. July 2008
“Citizenship in the Thought of Jane Addams and Gloria Anzaldua” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy Annual Conference, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. March 2008
“Cesar Chavez, Immigration, and the Future of the United States.” World History Association of Texas, St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas. February 2008.
“Upholding the Law of All the Greeks: Lessons on Humanitarian Intervention from Euripides” Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Annual Conference, Morelia, Mexico. July 2007
“Refusing to be a Macho: Cesar Chavez, Nonviolence, and the De-centering of Mexican Masculinity” Building a Culture of Peace Conference, Portland Peace Studies Consortium, Eugene, Oregon. April 2007
“Penitence, Pilgrimage, and Revolution: Mexican Cultural Resources for Nonviolent Resistance in the Thought of Cesar Chavez” Another World is Necessary Workshop, Center for Global Justice,San Miguel de Allende,Mexico. July 2006
“Cesar Chavez on Immigration and the Culture of Peace” Building a Culture of Peace Conference, Portland Peace Studies Consortium, Portland, Oregon. May 2006
APA Committee on Hispanics/Latinos Special Session, American Philosophical, Association, Pacific Division, Portland, Oregon. March 2006
Chair, “Intellectual Diversity and the Academic Bill of Rights” Gandhi/King Society Group Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Portland, Oregon. March 2006
Chair, Author Meets Critics: Andrew Fiala’s Practical Pacifism, Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World Group Meeting, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Portland, Oregon, March 2006.
“The Common Sense of Nonviolence: Time as a Political Resource in the thought of Martin Luther King and Cesar Chavez.” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy National Conference,San Antonio, Texas. March 2006.
“Defending the Great Community: Josiah Royce’s Conception of Humanitarian Intervention” Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Annual Conference, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina. July 2005
Josiah Royce Society Conference, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, April 2005.
“Cesar Chavez on Violence in the Struggle for Global Justice” Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Annual Conference, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, North Carolina, July 2004.
National Association of Chicana/o Studies, Thirty First National Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 2004.
“Cesar Chavez on Violence and Property Destruction in the Struggle for Global Justice” Mini Conference on Global Justice, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, Pasadena, California. March 2004
“Cesar Chavez on the Pragmatics of Violence.” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy National Conference, Birmingham, Alabama. March 2004.
“Cesar Chavez and the Strategy of Violent Civil Disobedience.” Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Sixteenth Annual National Meeting, Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon. October 2003
“Latino/a Conceptions of Race and Ethnicity.” Seminar Leader, Sixth Annual Summer Institute in American Philosophy, University of Oregon. July 2003
Chair, Colloquium on Cultural Identity, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, California. March 2003
“Cosmopolitan Loyalty and the Great Global Community: Josiah Royce on Globalization.” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy National Conference, Denver, Colorado, March 2003.
“La Democracia Cosmica: Participatory Democracy in Rendon’s Chicano Manifesto” Radical Philosophy Association Fifth International Conference, Providence, Rhode Island. November, 2002.
Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, New Mexico. June 2002
“When De Colores Doesn’t Mean All of Us: Teaching Chicana/o Studies in the Multiracial Classroom” National Association of Chicana/o Studies National Conference, Portland, Oregon. April 2000
“Democracy in the Time of Cholera: Utopia and the Postsocialist Condition in Latin America” Radical Philosophy Association, Third International Conference, San Francisco, California. November 1998
Panel on “Radical Pedagogy”Moderator, RPA International Conference, November 1998.
“Notes Toward Appreciating Che Guevara’s Legacy Today” National Association of Chicana/o Studies National Conference, Mexico City, Mexico. June 1998.
“Martin Luther King’s Normative Foundation for Radical Democracy” First Annual Conference of Canadian, American, and Mexican Philosophers and Social Scientists, National Autonomous University of Puebla,Puebla, Mexico. June 1997
“Martin Luther King Jr.’s Theory of Human Freedom and Democratic Possibility” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy National Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico. March 1997
Philosophical Collaborations Conference, University of Oregon, March 1997
“Authenticity and the Limits of Nationalism: Lessons for the Modern Politics of Recognition from the Chicano Movement” Global Studies Conference, University of California, Riverside. April 1996
“Notes Toward an Appreciation of Josiah Royce’s Contribution to Modern Identity Politics” Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy, American Philosophical Association, Seattle, Washington. April 1996.
“‘Everybody in the Barrios is a Nationalist’: Chicanismo and the Limits of the Politics of Recognition”Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Eighth Annual National Conference, University of Dayton, Ohio. October 1995
“Chicano Nationalism and the Limits of the Politics of Recognition” Discipuli Philosophy Conference, University of Southern California. March 1995
Public Lectures
“The ‘Fascinating and Lovely’ Work of Peace Studies” Invited Lecture, Western Oregon University Peace Lecture Series. January 2016
“Places of Injustice” Invited Lecture, OSU Martin Luther King, jr. Celebration. January 2016
“The ‘Fascinating and Lovely’ Work of Peace Studies” Invited Lecture, School of History, Philosophy, and Religion. August 2015.
“Black(s) and Blue(s): Panel on Baltimore” Invited Panelist, School of History, Philosophy, and Religion. May 2015.
“Is There Such a Thing as a Just War?” Invited Lecture, Academy of Lifelong Learning, Corvallis, Oregon. January 2015
“Anarchist Perspectives on World War I” Invited Panelist, Citizenship and Crisis Series at Oregon State. November 2014.
“Cesar Chavez and the Common Sense of Nonviolence” Invited Keynote Lecture, Lone Star Community College-North Harris, Houston, Texas. September 2014.
“Lessons from La Causa: Cesar Chavez and Social Justice” Invited Lecture, Worchester State University Latino Heritage Celebration, Worchester, Massachusetts. September 2014.
“Blood Avocados, Drug Cartels, and the Crisis of Democracy in Mexico” Lecture with Victor Vargas, Anarres Project for Alternative Futures, OSU. February 2014.
“The Limited Test Ban Treaty at 50: Impact of the Peace Movement” Invited Lecture, Oregon State University Special Collections Panel. October 2013
“The Study of Peace and War” Invited Lecture, Universidad Latina de America, Morelia Mexico. September 2013.
“Just Wars and Good Interventions” Invited Lecture, United Nations Association at Rose Villa, Portland, Oregon. March 2013
“Lessons from Cesar Chavez and the Bracero Movement” Invited Lecture, Center for Latino/Latina Studies and Engagement Inaugral Panel: “Reaping the Seeds of Our Heritage”. October 2012
“Corporate Personhood and Free Speech” Invited Lecture, Constitution Day Panel, Oregon State University. September 2012.
“Strike: Organizing Labor in the 21st Century” Invited Lecture, American Spring Symposium, The Arts Center, Corvallis, Oregon. May 2012
“Occupy and Latinos/as” Invited Lecture, Centro Cultural Cesar Chavez, Oregon State University. April 2012
“The Occupy Movement” Invited Lecture, First United Methodist Church, Corvallis, Oregon. March 2012
“The Influence of Christianity on Latin America: Beneficial or Destructive?” Invited Lecture, Socratic Club, Oregon State University. January 2012
“Peace and Public Life: A Community Panel” Invited Chair, Annual Conference Concerned Philosophers for Peace, Austin, Texas. November 2011
“Cesar Chavez, Undocumented Immigrants, and the Culture of Peace”. Invited Lecture, Symposium on Cesar Chavez and the United Farmworkers, Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, University of California, Santa Barbara. October 2011
“Cesar Chavez: Latino/a Immigrants, and the Culture of Peace in the U.S.”
“Conceptions of Peace and Social Change”
“Cesar Chavez and What We Should Expect From Education”
Invited Lectures, Ahimsa Center for Peace, Cal Poly Pomona. August 2011
“Cesar Chavez and the Future of the Fourteenth Amendment” Invited Panelist, Center for Peace and Justice, George Fox University. March 2011.
“U.S. Immigration Law and the Persistence of Racism” Invited Lecture, Campus Coalition Builders, Oregon State University. October 2010
“Being White” Invited Lecture, Justice in Leadership Conference, Associated Students of Oregon State University. September 2010
“Existe Una Guerra Justa?”/”Does a Just War Exist?” Invited Lecture (in Spanish and English), Law School of National University of Rosario, Rosario, Argentina. May 2010
“Cesar Chavez and Immigration: An Evening with Jose-Antonio Orosco” Invited Lecture, Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration, Loyola University, Chicago. October 2009
“Democracy and Civil Disobedience” Invited Lecture, Philosophy Café, Powell’s Bookstore, Portland, Oregon. August 2009.
“Does Race Still Matter?: Interrogating ‘Post-Racial’ Notions in the Age of Obama” Invited Lecture, Association of Faculty for the Advancement of People of Color, OSU, Corvallis, Oregon. May 2009.
“Cesar Chavez on Democracy in the U.S.” Invited Lecture, Centro Cultural Cesar Chavez Tribute Month, OSU, Corvallis, Oregon. April 2009.
“Cesar Chavez and the Foundations of American Democracy” “Refusing to be Un Macho: Cesar Chavez on Gender and the Culture of Peace” Invited Lectures, Department of Philosophy, University of Detroit-Mercy, Detroit, Michigan. March 2009.
“Si Se Puede-Vivir En Paz: Cesar Chavez and the Common Sense of Nonviolence” Invited Lecture, Center for Mexican American Studies, Our Lady of the Lake University, San Antonio, Texas. March 2009.
“Cesar Chavez and Nonviolence” Invited Lecture, Ethics Center of California State University, Fresno. March 2009.
“He Spoke of Justice: Are you Listening” Invited Keynote Lecture, City of Corvallis Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration. January 2009.
“Cesar Chavez, Immigration, and American Democracy” Invited Lecture, University of Portland Philosophy Club, Portland, Oregon. November 2008.
“Cesar Chavez, Violence, and Social Justice” Invited Lecture, Texas A &M University Philosophy Department Colloquium, College Station, Texas. September 2008.
“Immigrant Rights” Invited Keynote Address, Corvallis Chapter National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Corvallis, Oregon. May 2008.
“Interculturalism” Invited Lecture, Latin American Philosophy Class, University of Oregon, Eugene,Oregon. May 2008
“Immigrant Rights and Human Rights” Invited Lecture, Peace and Democracy Center, Lane Community College, Eugene, Oregon. March 2008
“The Morality of the Just War Tradition” Invited Lecture, Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Corvallis, Oregon. February 2008
“Nonviolence in a Violent World” Invited Panel, Western Oregon University Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration. January 2008
“Cesar Chavez and the Politics and Promise of Mexican Immigration” Invited Lecture, Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon. November 2007
“Cesar Chavez and the Promise of Latino Immigration” Invited Lecture, Philosophy Department, University of Colorado at Denver. October 2007
“Farmworker Exploitation and the Ethics of Immigration” Invited Lecture, Cesar Chavez Tribute Symposium, Oregon State University. March 2007
“The Strategies of Property Destruction and Sabotage for Social Justice” Invited Lecture, University of California, Riverside Alumni Symposium, Riverside, California. March 2007
“The Ethics of Immigration” Invited Lecture, OSU Academy of Life-Long Learning Corvallis, Oregon. November 2006.
“The Ethics of Globalization” Department of Foreign Languages, Spanish 499, Oregon State University. May 2006.
“Crossing Borders, Challenging Myths: Immigration and the Re-shaping of Life and Culture in the U.S.” Presentation with Dr. Tony Vogt and Lisa Gonzales, Department of Ethnic Studies Forum on Immigration. April 2006.
“The Legacy and Life of Cesar Chavez” Invited lecture, Cesar Chavez Tribute Dinner, Centro Cultural Cesar Chavez. April 2006
“Globalization from Below and Nonviolent Social Change.” Presentation with Dr. Tony Vogt, OSU Social Change Conference. March 2006.
“Pilgrimage, Penitence, and Revolution: Latino Immigration and the Building of a Culture of Peace in the Thought of Cesar Chavez.” Invited Lecture, Department of Ethnic Studies Colloquium, Oregon State University. February 2006.
“The Ethics of Globalization” Department of Geosciences Spring Seminar on Ethics, Oregon State University. May2005.
“Browning Brown: The Mexican American Contribution to the Desegregation of the United States” Oregon State University Brown v. Board of Education Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration. May 2004
“Mexican Immigration” Invited lecture, Oregon State University Academy for Lifelong Learning, Corvallis, Oregon. April 2004.
“Becoming Estadounidense: Mestizo Democracy and Latino/a Cultural Citizenship.” Ideas Matter Lecture Series on Democracy and Dissent, Philosophy Department, Oregon State University. October 2003.
“The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Radical Politics.” Invited Keynote Address for Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Week, Mount St. Mary’s College, Emmitsburg, Maryland. January 2003.
“Background to the Zapatista Conflict in Chiapas.” Invited Lecture, Oregon State University History Club. January 2003.
“Walzer’s Third Way” Invited Lecture, Philosophy Colloquium, Philosophy Department, University of Oregon. March 2002
“Organizing for Change” Invited keynote address, Associated Students of OSU Multicultural Affairs Task Force, Colors Conference. February, 2002
“Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Social Democracy” Invited Lecture, Ethnic Studies Colloquium, Ethnic Studies Department, Oregon State University. January 2002.
“Latinos and the War on Terrorism” Invited Lecture, Centro Cultural Cesar Chavez, Oregon State University. October 2001.
“The Promise of Neighborhood Democracy” Invited Lecture, Department of Philosophy, Oregon State University. January 2001
“Violence and the Language of Sex” Invited Presentation with Dr. Katrin Flechsig, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin. November 1999
“Democracy in the Time of Cholera: Utopia and the Postsocialist Condition in Latin America” Invited Lecture, Conference on Latin American Liberation Thought, Lewis University, Romeoville, Illinois. February 1999
Editorial Boards
Co-Editor, Journal for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, July 2010- 2016
Associate Editor, Acorn: Journal for Pacifism and Nonviolence, July 2016-Present
Transactions of the Charles Peirce Society, January 2011-Present
Inter-American Philosophical Review, February 2010- Present
Journal for Philosophy in the Contemporary World, October 2005-2011
Review Journal of Political Philosophy, April 2003-Present.
Acorn: Journal of the Gandhi/King Society, March 2004-Present.
Professional Organizations
American Philosophical Association
Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy
Society for Mexican American Philosophy
Society for Philosophy in the Contemporary World
Radical Philosophy Association
Concerned Philosophers for Peace
Peace and Conflict Studies Consortium
José-Antonio Orosco 