Faculty Profile for Dr. Alejandro Barcenas Pardo

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Dr. Alejandro Barcenas Pardo
Associate Professor — Philosophy
DERR 222
phone: (512) 245-1392

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • Barcenas Pardo, A. (2021). El Arte de la Guerra Completo. New York, NY, USA: Knopf / Vintage Español.
  • Barcenas Pardo, A. (Trans.). (2019). Tao Te Ching. New York, USA: Knopf / Vintage Español.
  • Barcenas Pardo, A. (2019). Han Fei’s Rule of Law. In The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Early Chinese Ethics and Political Philosophy (pp. 155–183). London and New York, UK and USA: Bloomsbury.
  • Barcenas Pardo, A. (2017). Corporate Greed and Alien/ation: Marx vs. Weyland-Yutani. In Alien and Philosophy: I infest, therefore I am (pp. 48–54). Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers.
  • Barcenas Pardo, A., & Bein, S. (2016). “Make it So”: Kant, Confucius and the Prime Directive. In K. Decker & J. Eberl (Eds.), The Ultimate Star Trek and Philosophy: The Search for Socrates (pp. 36–46). Malden MA, USA / Oxford, UK / Carlton, Australia: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: College Achievement Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities, College of Liberal Arts - Texas State University. 2014
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Merit Tuition Waiver, Graduate Division of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. 2005
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Pacific Asian Scholarship, Graduate Division of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. 2004
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Pacific Asian Scholarship, Graduate Division of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. 2003
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Pacific Asian Scholarship, Graduate Division of the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. 2002

Selected Grants

  • Barcenas Pardo, Alejandro, Hanks, Craig (Co-Principal). Online Resource Grant, Albert B. Alkek Library, Texas State University – San Marcos, Texas State University, $23000. (Funded: March 2015). Grant.
  • Barcenas Pardo, Alejandro. Mini-grant, Humanities Texas - State affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), State, $1500. (Funded: October 2012). Grant.
  • Barcenas Pardo, Alejandro (Co-Principal). Textos y Temas Fundamentales del Pensamiento Japonés: Materiales para una Filosofía Intercultural, Government of Spain. Ministry of Economy (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad), Government of Spain. (Funded: September 2012). Grant.
  • Barcenas Pardo, Alejandro. Library Research Grant, Albert B. Alkek Library, Texas State University – San Marcos, Institutional (Higher Ed), $641. (Funded: January 2012). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Reviewer / Referee
Philosophy East and West: A Quarterly of Comparative Philosophy
2022-Present
Reviewer / Referee
The Review of Politics
December 2021-Present
Reviewer / Referee
State University of New York Press
2020-Present
Editorial Advisor
Igenium: Revista Electrónica de Pensamiento Moderno y Metodología en Historia de las Ideas
2018-Present
Member
General Education Committee
2017-Present