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Professor of Philosophy at University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras
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Rocío Zamabrana teaches and writes about the epistemic and historical-material bases of capitalist modernity and its racial/gender order, specifically from decolonial thought and praxis, particularly in the context of financial capitalism in the Caribbean. She is currently writing a book entitled Metamorphosis of Value: Epistemic Protocols in the Longue Durée, which traces the emergence of figures of speculation (economic/racial) endemic to capitalism through a consideration of the trade-plantation complex in early modern Caribbean. She is also working on a collection of essays on Hegel, race, and modernity. Zamabrana teaches philosophy at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, and co-edits the forthcoming Constelaciones de filosofía feminista (Herder). She has been a columnist for 80grados and co-edited Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy from fall 2018 to 2024. Zamabrana is the author of Hegel’s Theory of Intelligibility (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and Colonial Debts: The Case of Puerto Rico (Duke University Press, 2021). Deudas coloniales: el caso de Puerto Rico, Roque Salas Rivera's translation of Colonial Debts, was published by Editora Educación Emergente in 2022. She received her PhD in Philosophy from the New School for Social Research in 2010 and was faculty in Philosophy at the University of Oregon (2010-2019) and at Emory (2019-2023) before joining the Philosophy department at University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras in 2023.
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