About Me

My name is Joel Alvarez, and I hold a Master's degree in Philosophy. I'm a PhD candidate at the prestigious University of South Florida, specializing in Early Modern Philosophy and Philosophy of Religion. I also have competency with Medieval Philosophy, Native American Philosophy, Ethics, Applied Ethics, Philosophy of Science, and Metaphysics.

I was honored with the third essay prize of the IVP Prize for Early-Career Philosophers of Religion in 2022, an award presented by Tyndale House Cambridge and Intervarsity Press.

Contributing to the academic discourse, I have published two articles. The first, titled "Native American Epistemology Through Dreams," featured in Andrea Sullivan-Clarke's edited collection, Ways of Being in the World: An Introduction to Indigenous Philosophies of Turtle Island, published by Broadview Press. The second article, "Spinozism and Native Americans on Pantheism and Panentheism," can be found in Luca Valera's edited volume, Pantheism and Ecology. Cosmological, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives, part of the Springer Series on Ecology and Ethics.