Daniel Calzadillas-Rodriguez is a PhD student in philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He focuses on the intersections of critical philosophy of race, phenomenology, and social and political philosophy with an emphasis on Latin American approaches. His research explores how racialized subjectivities emerge from processes of sedimentation as informed by the historicization of ontology. A central question guiding his work is how ontology might avoid transcendental presuppositions and therefore serve as a useful first philosophy for inquiries concerning race.
His previous research examines the boundaries of liberalism regarding noncitiz…
Daniel Calzadillas-Rodriguez is a PhD student in philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. He focuses on the intersections of critical philosophy of race, phenomenology, and social and political philosophy with an emphasis on Latin American approaches. His research explores how racialized subjectivities emerge from processes of sedimentation as informed by the historicization of ontology. A central question guiding his work is how ontology might avoid transcendental presuppositions and therefore serve as a useful first philosophy for inquiries concerning race.
His previous research examines the boundaries of liberalism regarding noncitizens—particularly how contested definitions of citizenship and democracy justify the coercion of legal subjects such as the "illegal immigrant." He also investigates the race-making functions of the immigration legal system.
