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Professor Teresa Santiago Oropeza studied a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), a Ph.D. in Political Philosophy from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) Iztapalapa Campus, where she is a Professor in the Department of Philosophy.

Author of Justificar la guerra (UAM, 2001); Función y crítica de la guerra en la filosofía de I. Kant (Anthropos, 2004); Breve introducción al pensamiento de I. Kant (UAM, 2006); La paradoja de Hobbes (Conaculta, 2010); La guerra humanitaria. Pasado y presente de una controversia filosófica (Gedisa, 2013); y Bárbaros vs civilizados. La polémica Las Casas-Sepúlveda (UAM, 2018); coautora (con Carlos Illades) de Estado de Guerra, de la guerra sucia a la narcoguerra, (Era,2014) y Mundos de muerte. Despojo, crimen y violencia en Guerrero (Gedisa, 2020).

She compiled Alcances y límites de la racionalidad (UAM, 2000), De acciones, deseos y razón práctica (UAM, 2006), Moral y derecho: doce ensayos filosóficos (SCJN, 2011). She directed the magazine Signos Filosóficos (2007-2015) belonging to the index of scientific magazines of CONACYT.

Professor Santiago Oropeza is a member of the advisory board of the Kant Library, an editorial project in which the FCE, UNAM, and UAM participate. She is a member of the Postgraduate Committee in Humanities, in the line of practical philosophy, of the Social Sciences Division of the UAM Iztapalapa Campus.