Faculty Profile for Dr. Ivan Marquez

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Dr. Ivan Marquez
Associate Professor — Philosophy
DERR 219
phone: (512) 245-2269

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Marquez, I. (n.d.). Chitta Ranjan Das, Albert Camus, and Rebellion. In When Feet Become Wings: Chitta Ranjan Das Memorial Lectures.
  • Marquez, I. (n.d.). Rorty, Reason, and Modernity’s Crisis of Critique. London, UK: Lexington Books (now part of Bloomsbury Publishing).
  • Marquez, I. (n.d.). Comments on “The Poser.” In A. Giri (Ed.), Sociology as Conversation.
  • Marquez, I. (2021). Understanding “Roots and Routes” from a Post-Kantian Tradition of Critique. In Crossfertilizing Roots and Routes: Identities, Social Creativity, Cultural regeneration, and Planetary Realizations (pp. 79–84). Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Marquez, I. (2020). Afterword. In C. Ranjan (Ed.), The Essays of Chitta Ranjan Das on Literature, Culture, and Society: On the Side of Life in Spite of (pp. 211–213). UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Favorite Professor Award, Alpha Chi, National College Honor Society. 2012 - Present
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Participant, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute. Topic: “Latin American Philosophy: The Appropriation of European Ideas in Latin America, National Endowment for Humanities (NEH). June 30, 2005
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Participant, Summer Institute, “Classical American Philosophy: Revisiting the Texts, The Center for Dewey Studies and The Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy. 1998
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Honors Thesis awarded Highest Distinction, University of Puerto Rico. 1987

Selected Grants

  • Marquez, Ivan. Bentley College A&S Dean Research Grant. (Funded: 2003). Grant.
  • Marquez, Ivan. Co-Author, Mini Grant, 2015-2016 Common Experience – Bridged Through Stories: Shared Heritage of the United States and Mexico, An Homage to Dr. Tomás Rivera., $700.00. (Funded: 2015 - 2016). Grant.
  • Marquez, Ivan. Bentley College Faculty Affairs Committee Grant. (Funded: 2002 - 2007). Grant.
  • Marquez, Ivan. Bentley College Summer Research Grant. (Funded: 1999 - 2008). Grant.
  • Marquez, Ivan. Indiana University Tuition Scholarship, Indiana University, Institutional (Higher Ed). (Funded: 1991 - 1993). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Founder
Philosophy for Children Program, Crockett Elementary School
2015-Present
Founder and Director
Philosophy for Teens Program, San Marcos Public Library
2015-Present
Member
, The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment
2015-Present
Member
Liberal Arts Study Abroad Council
2012-Present
Participant
2012-Present