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Professor Teresa Santiago Oropeza completed undergraduate and master’s studies in Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and earned a PhD in Political Philosophy from the Autonomous Metropolitan University, Iztapalapa Campus, where she served as Full-Time Professor C in the Department of Philosophy. She was a National Researcher in the National System of Researchers, Level II.

She authored 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); and Bárbaros vs civilizados. La polémica Las Casas-Sepúlveda (UAM, 2018). She also co-authored, together with Carlos Illades, Estado de guerra, de la guerra sucia a la narcoguerra (Era, 2014) and Mundos de muerte. Despojo, crimen y violencia en Guerrero (Gedisa, 2020).

She edited the volumes Alcances y límites de la racionalidad (UAM, 2000), De acciones, deseos y razón práctica (UAM, 2006), and Moral y derecho: doce ensayos filosóficos (SCJN, 2011). She directed the journal Signos Filosóficos (2007–2015), a publication included in the CONACYT index of scientific journals.

She was a member of the advisory board of Biblioteca Kant, an editorial project involving Fondo de Cultura Económica, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and the Autonomous Metropolitan University. She also belonged to the Graduate Committee in Humanities, in the area of Practical Philosophy, in the Division of Social Sciences and Humanities at UAM Iztapalapa Campus.