Dr. Omar Rivera
  • Associate Dean for Faculty Initiatives
  • Director, Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) Initiatives
  • Associate Professor, Philosophy

Administrative Contact

Katie Cowand

kcowand@tamu.edu

979-845-6531

Areas of Specialization

  • Latin American Philosophy
  • 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy
  • Aesthetics

Contributes to Departmental Research Strengths In

  • Continental Philosophy
  • Philosophies of the Global South

Biography

Omar Rivera (PhD, Penn State) specializes in Latin American Philosophy, Phenomenology and Aesthetics. He is the author of Delimitations of Latin American Philosophy: Beyond Redemption (Indiana University Press, 2019) and Andean Aesthetics and Anticolonial Resistance: A Cosmology of Unsociable Bodies (Bloomsbury Press, 2021). In 2018-2019 he was awarded the ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship and was a research faculty at LLILAS-Benson at the University of Texas in Austin. He is the Co-PI for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant LatinTX: Place, Race, and Latinx Critical Environmental Justice in Texas (2025-2029). His current manuscript in progress is Aesthetics Without Shelter: Displacing the Origins of Art.

Educational Background

  • Ph.D. , The Pennsylvania State University, 2007