School: Institute of Humanities

Professor Alejandro Sada received a Master's degree in Philosophy with honors from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (2016) and a PhD degree in Philosophy summa cum laude from the University of Navarra (2020), for which he obtained a scholarship from the Universidad Panamericana. Since 2011 he has worked as a Research Professor at this institution, where he has taught different undergraduate and graduate courses, such as History of Culture, Person and Society, Ethics, Theological Anthropology I and II, Introduction to Christianity, Social Philosophy, Man and Contemporary World, Joseph Ratzinger in dialogue with culture. He has published several specialized articles in scientific journals. Among his most recent publications are the books: Assent and Certainty in the Thought of John Henry Newman. A Defense of Religious Belief (Nun, 2021); Sense and Truth. Towards a New Understanding of Philosophy from the Thought of Joseph Ratzinger (BAC, 2023). He is editor, with Tracey Rowland and Rudy Albino de Assunção, of the book Ratzinger and the Philosophers. From Plato to Vattimo, soon to be published in English, Spanish and German (Bloomsbury, T&T Clark; Encuentro; Ratzinger Studien). He is especially interested in the relationship between faith and reason (theology and philosophy), and in the metaphysical and anthropological implications of the Christian faith. He is also engaged in the study of the thought of John Henry Newman and Joseph Ratzinger. He currently directs an international research group on the Collaboration between philosophy and theology in the thought of Joseph Ratzinger, which has obtained resources from the Research Promotion Fund for two consecutive years.

He holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Universidad Panamericana, a M.A. in Philosophy from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Universidad de Navarra and also from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He completed postdoctoral studies at the Centre Léon Robin of the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris and the CNRS in France and is also a graduate of the D1 Program at IPADE. Currently, he is a professor-researcher at Universidad Panamericana, where he teaches Ontology for the Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy, Ethics at the Institute of Humanities and Theory of Knowledge for the Doctorate in Law. During the 2021-2022 school year, he was Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies and the History of Philosophy Forum at the University of Notre Dame.

Dr. Ross is a member of the National System of Researchers of CONACYT level 2 and is the author of several articles, book chapters and specialized books in the field of Ancient Philosophy among which stand out the monograph "God, eternity and movement in Aristotle" and the volume "Time and Cosmology in Plato and the Platonic Tradition" co-edited with Daniel Vázquez and which recently appeared in Brill's Plato Studies Series. From 2009 to 2015, Dr. Ross was Director of the School of Philosophy at Universidad Panamericana and from 2015 to 2021 he was Vice Chancellor for Research at the same institution. In 2021, he assumed the Direction of the Institute of Humanities at UP and the Presidency of the Latin American Association of Ancient Philosophy (ALFA). He is also a member of the editorial committees of the Colección Filosófica of the EUNSA publishing house in Spain, of the Editorial NUN of Mexico, of the journal Aristotélica of Italy, of the Revista Istmo of IPADE and of the journals Bioethics UPdate published by UP and Elsevier. In addition, he has been evaluator of CONACYT of Mexico, CONICET of Argentina, FONDECYT of Chile and several national and international publications.

Semblanza: PhD in History of Thought from Universidad Panamericana (UP), Master in Philosophy from UNAM and Bachelor in Philosophy from UP. Member of the National System of Researchers (SNI), CONAHCYT. Research Professor at the Institute of Humanities of the UP. Author of the book Música y matemática en la filosofía de Platón. Remedios y profilácticos contra el mal (NUN, 2021), as well as several book chapters and articles on Platonic philosophy, popularization and culture. Coordinated, together with Víctor-Isolino Doval, the book Diálogos sobre la guerra (NUN, 2023). Founding president of 3ntre logos, a center dedicated to the dissemination of philosophy. Member of the Philosophical Association of Mexico (AFM), the Latin American Association of Ancient Philosophy (ALFA) and the International Plato Society (IPS).

He studied a degree in Philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, did an exchange at the University of Navarra and later did the equivalent of a Master's degree at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Philosophy at the same university on the study of Robert Spaemann's finality.

Luis Pesquera Olalde holds a PhD in Theology from the University of Navarra (2002). He also holds a Master's degree in Philosophy from UP (2013) and in Business Administration from ITESM (1997). Since 2011 he is part of the academic faculty of the Universidad Panamericana in Mexico where he is currently Head of the Academy of Theology. He is a member of the Mexican Academy of Theology. Organizer of the Seminar of Theological Studies of the Institute of Humanities. Collaborates as a professor at the Instituto Teológico Digital (ITED). Creator of the podcast Nuntii in lingua latina International Newcast. Author of the book: Theology in the university in the light of Pope Francis. Teaching experiences. Mexico City: Ed. Notas Universitarias S.A. de C.V., Petrus collection, 2019. (cf. Amazon).
His areas of interest are: St. Thomas Aquinas: ethics, natural law; Benedict XVI: theology of logos; Theology in the university; among others.

Full-time Research Professor (since 2012) at the Institute of Humanities of the Universidad Panamericana Ciudad de México. BA in History from the Sorbonne University, Paris, France (University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne). D. in History from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Professor of the course "Curso de Historia de la cultura" (Historia intelectual de occidente - in Spanish and English). Member of the National System of Researchers (SNI-CONACYT), of the Mexico-France Research Network (MUFRAMEX) and of the AMEI (Mexican Association of International Studies). Founder and coordinator of the SHRI Seminar on History and International Relations (since 2019). Line of research: History of International Relations and Intellectual History of Mexico in the 20th century. Current project: writing a political and diplomatic biography of Jaime Torres Bodet, writer, diplomat (Director General of UNESCO) and statesman (Public Education and Foreign Affairs). He has recently published: Marcio Orozco, I am not Jaime Torres Bodet, I am Mexico. The Ambassador to France (1954-158): biographical study. Mexico, Bonilla Artigas Editores, 2023. He has published specialized articles on history and diplomatic thought of the 20th century.

José María Llovet is Full Research Professor C at the Instituto de Humanidades, Mexico campus, where he currently holds the position of Research Secretary. He is a member of the National System of Researchers, level I. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Universidad Panamericana, a Master in Philosophy from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and a BA in Philosophy from the Universidad Panamericana. In 2009 he received the National Thesis Award from the Philosophical Association of Mexico for his thesis "The private and its relation to virtue in Aristotle's practical philosophy", directed by Dr. Héctor Zagal. He completed his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Dr. André Laks. He specializes in metaphysics and philosophy of nature in Aristotle. He is currently a professor at the Institute of Humanities and the Faculty of Philosophy, where he has taught different courses at the undergraduate and graduate level. He is a member of the board of directors of the Latin American Association of Ancient Philosophy. In 2020 he published his book La noción aristotélica de principio (The Aristotelian notion of principle) in Eunsa publishing house. He has also published specialized articles in national and international journals on Aristotle's thought and Kant's epistemology.

Catalina León Letelier studied a degree in Philosophy at Universidad Panamericana. She is currently coordinator of the Specialty in Philosophical Anthropology and professor at the Institute of Humanities. She is currently pursuing a master's degree in Ancient Philosophy at Universidad Panamericana and her areas of interest are Philosophical Anthropology and Ethics.

D. in Philosophy from UNAM, a Master's degree in History of Thought and a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from Universidad Panamericana. Her work is strongly balanced with the dissemination of a culture of equality for all people, especially those who face conditions of vulnerability, with special interest in women, girls and boys. She has been a consultant for the three levels of government on issues related to gender violence, political philosophy, human development and mainstreaming of the gender and family perspective, highlighting her collaboration with the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of National Defense on training issues, with CONAVIM in the process of requesting the Gender Alert for the State of Querétaro. In addition to having been an advisor to the National Institute of Women from 2012 to 2018. She is currently a consultant with her own company Gender Rating and professor at Universidad Panamericana of the Humanities subjects such as Person and Society, Ethics and has taught seminars in the Faculty of Philosophy of Political History of Sexuality, and Feminisms. She is also a member of the National System of Researchers at Level 1.

Alfonso Ganem is professor-researcher at the Institute of Humanities of the UP. He holds a master's degree in philosophy from UNAM and has recently joined the Autonomie Heteronomer Texte in Antike und Mittelalter group at the University of Jena. During this stay he will pursue his doctoral studies with a thesis entitled John Philoponus' mereology for particular natures of Christ. He was a member of the 9SALT project at the University of Vienna and has also been a collaborator in other national projects on Arabic philosophy. His areas of specialization are: the reception of Aristotelian philosophy in Syriac, Byzantine and Arabic traditions, the relationship between logic and theology and the Greco-Syriac intellectual world.

She has a degree in Philosophy from Universidad Panamericana, a Master in Philosophy from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, with a specialization in Ethics and a PhD in History of Thought with a research on acedia. For five years she was general coordinator of the Institute of Humanities of the UP and was also general director of the UP High School, Yaocalli campus.

She has been a professor at the Institute of Humanities since 2005 teaching subjects such as Person and Society, Ethics, Theological Anthropology I and II. Her lines of research are: love as a link in interpersonal relationships, the meaning of life and the theory of virtues.