Marta Postigo, Dr.
Visiting Post-doctoral scholar, Associate member
PPhiG / CoE PolCon
Marta Postigo Asenjo
Philosophy Department, Area of Moral Philosophy
University of Málaga
Campus de Teatinos 29071, Málaga, Spain
email: martapostigo@uma.es
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Assistant professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at the University of Málaga, where she teaches courses in moral philosophy, theories of justice, socio-moral issues, philosophy of culture and ethics and politics of human development. She is the coordinator and a lecturer of a post-degree course on gender and feminism(s), at the Master degree program on equality and gender of the University of Málaga.
Born in Málaga, in 1977, she got her PhD in Philosophy in 2006, with a doctoral dissertation on “Género e igualdad de oportunidades: la teoría feminista y sus implicaciones ético-políticas”, supervised by Prof. J. M. Rosales. Dr. Marta Postigo has been a visiting research fellow associated at the Centre for the Study of Democracy, Westminster University, London, from June 1st, through August 31st, 2004, with a research project on gender equality; a postdoctoral visiting scholar at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Political Thought and Conceptual Change, Finland, from October 1st, 2007, through September 30th, 2008, working within the Politics of Philosophy and Gender (PPhiG) team, on a research project on “Feminism and liberalism in a multicultural context”, supervised by Prof. T. Pulkkinen, and a visiting scholar at the New School for Social Research, Politics Department, New York, from July 15th, 2011, through September 15th, 2011, with a research project on “Politics of identity in a cosmopolitan Europe”, supervised by Prof. N. Fraser.
Member of the research project The rhetorics of democracy (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, 2009-2011) and The civic constellation (Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, 2012-2014) led by J.M. Rosales, Dr. Postigo is also an associate member of the Politics of Philosophy and Gender (PPhiG) research team led by T. Pulkkinen, at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Political Thought and Conceptual Change, and a member of the Seminario de Estudios Interdisciplinares de la Mujer (SEIM), led by Prof. M. D. Ramos at the University of Málaga.
Author of the books Género y ciudadanía: el discurso feminista en la ciudadanía liberal (University of Málaga, 2006) and Igualdad, ciudadanía y género: las mujeres en el discurso moral y político (Ayuntamiento de Palencia, 2009), she has published several articles on gender and citizenship in Spanish journals and participated at international conferences on the same topics.
Dr. Postigo is currently working on issues related with collective identities, Europe, cosmopolitanism, gender and citizenship.