Alejandro Bárcenas is Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and a Licenciatura (a five-year degree requiring 150 credit hours of philosophy courses and a research thesis) from the Universidad Central de Venezuela.

He is the author of Machiavelli's Art of Politics (Brill, 2015) and co-translator of Machiavelli’s The Prince into Spanish (Los Libros de El Nacional, 1999). He recently translated Sun Tzu and Sun Pin’s Art of War (El Arte de la Guerra Completo, Vintage Español, 2021) and Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching (Vintage Español, 2019) into Spanish, based on the archeological texts from Yinqueshan and Mawangdui, for Penguin Random House. His research on the history of philosophy has been published in Australia, Colombia, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, the US and Venezuela.