Mariana Alessandri Ph.D.

Mariana Alessandri, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley, where she also is Director of Religious Studies and Affiliate Faculty in Mexican American Studies & Gender and Women’s Studies. She is a regular contributor to New Philosopher, The New York Times blog “The Stone,” Times Higher Ed, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Aeon, and Womankind. In 2015, she received the American Philosophical Association Prize in Public Philosophy for her first article in The New York Times, “Companions in Misery” (2014). She has since published three more op-eds in The New York Times, most recently “It’s a Terrible Day in the Neighborhood: And That’s O.K.” (2019). Night Vision: Seeing Ourselves through Dark Moods (Princeton) is her first book.