Stefan Terrazas is a Ph.D. student in philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University. He previously attended the London School of Economics, where he graduated with an MSc with distinction in Philosophy and Public Policy. He also holds a Licentiate in Philosophy (summa cum laude) from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz, Bolivia, the city where he was born and raised. During his time there he conducted research on food sovereignty for the Bolivian government. His research interests lie at the intersection of Hispanic and Latin American philosophy, the history of social and political thought, and the philosophy of race. His current …
Stefan Terrazas is a Ph.D. student in philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University. He previously attended the London School of Economics, where he graduated with an MSc with distinction in Philosophy and Public Policy. He also holds a Licentiate in Philosophy (summa cum laude) from the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés in La Paz, Bolivia, the city where he was born and raised. During his time there he conducted research on food sovereignty for the Bolivian government. His research interests lie at the intersection of Hispanic and Latin American philosophy, the history of social and political thought, and the philosophy of race. His current focus is on early colonial discourses surrounding the Spanish Conquest of the Americas with a particular interest in religious conversion, “purity of blood,” and African and Indigenous slavery in the “long” sixteenth century. This had led him to investigate the Disputation of Valladolid, Spain (1550–51), between Bartolomé de Las Casas and Ginés de Sepúlveda, its background and aftermath. In his dissertation, Stefan examines the continuity of early colonial thought with later philosophical approaches to race and nation-building as they relate to colonial domination in Latin America.
