Rivera, Omar

Dr. Omar Rivera is an associate professor of philosophy and director of Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) Initiatives in the College of Arts and Sciences. He holds respective B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in liberal arts and philosophy. Dr. Rivera joined the Texas A&M faculty in 2020 as a member of the Department of Philosophy, where he specializes in Latin American political philosophy, aesthetics and phenomenology. He has written two books, Delimitations of Latin American Philosophy (Indiana University Press, 2019) and Andean Aesthetics and Anticolonial Resistance (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021). Dr. Rivera grew up in Lima, Peru, and was trained in philosophy in the United States and Germany. He was a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Research Scholar at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Prior to coming to Texas A&M, Dr. Rivera split time between Cusco, Peru, and Austin, Texas, as a research faculty member with the LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections at The University of Texas at Austin supported by a 2018-2019 American Council of Learned Societies Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship for Recently Tenured Scholars.