- Research Professor
- Email: mepelaez@up.edu.mx
- Profile:
Dr. María Elena García Peláez Cruz is a research professor in the School of Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( Universidad Panamericana). She earned her bachelor’s degree in philosophy from that institution. Her master’s thesis in philosophy at UNAM, “On the Biological Assumptions of Aristotle’s Politics,” was awarded the Norman Sverdlin Prize in 2008. She earned her Ph.D. in Philosophy from UNAM with the dissertation “The Cosmological, Metaphysical, and Physiological Relevance of Reproduction in Aristotle’s Biological Treatises and Its Implications for the Definability of Women.” From 2013 to 2023, she served as Dean of the School of Philosophy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico ( Universidad Panamericana), where she has been a tenured professor of the History of Ancient Philosophy. She has taught various undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral courses in that same school, as well as in other programs and institutions both nationally and internationally. Committed to the social impact of philosophy, she co-directed SWIP-Analytic México, an organization dedicated to providing tools and support to female philosophy students at the undergraduate and graduate levels from various Mexican states. She has collaborated on and directed various research projects and published in books and specialized journals. She is the author of the book *The Feminine Longing for Eternity. Reproduction and Embryology in Aristotle’s Biological Works,” in the International Aristotle Studies series, Verlag Karl Alber, Baden-Baden, Germany, 2026, and co-edited the book “Voices and Echoes of Early Greek Philosophy,” in the Beiträge zur Altertumskunde series, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2024. She has also participated in and organized international conferences and, in the publishing field, contributes to various specialized journals, both on editorial boards and as a reviewer. She has worked tirelessly to forge connections that benefit the academic community and students in the country; as a result, since 2019 she has served as co-organizer of the Consortium on Ancient Philosophy among Princeton, São Paulo, and Panamericana universities.
Research Areas:
- Ancient Philosophy and Biology
- History of Ancient Philosophy
- Aristotle
Research Projects
- “Experiences of the Divine in the Abrahamic Traditions”
Link to publications:
- https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1002-3898
- https://scripta.up.edu.mx/entities/person/mepelaez