Noell Birondo is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso. His main interests lie at the intersection of contemporary moral philosophy and ancient Greek philosophy. He recently completed a book on the moral psychology of hate and is writing a book on the influence of Western imperialism on our conceptions of the moral virtues. Winner of the American Philosophical Association’s 2019 Essay Prize in Latin American Thought and a past member of the APA Committee on Inclusiveness in the Profession, he completed his Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame and B.A. at the University of California, Berkeley.

• Outstanding Academic Title 2022 - The Moral Psychology of Hate - CHOICE Reviews (12/01/2022)
• Top 75 Community College Titles, November 2022 - The Moral Psychology of Hate - CHOICE Reviews (11/29/2022)
• Provost's Faculty Fellow 2022-2023 - Office of the Provost (07/01/2022)
• Liberal Arts Career Enhancement Award - College of Liberal Arts (04/27/2022)

• Ph D in Philosophy, University of Notre Dame (2004)
• BA in Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley (1995)

• Mexico Unveiled: Resisting Colonial Vices and Other Complaints, by Carlos Pereda, translated, edited, and with an introduction by Noell Birondo, with Ana Gabriela Sánchez and Andres Bonilla Vanderbilt University Press (in press), Carlos Pereda, Noell Birondo, Ana Gabriela Sanchez, Andres Bonilla.
• Carlos Pereda's Porous Reason: A Critical Introduction Vanderbilt University Press (in press), Noell N. Birondo.
• Epilogue: An Imperial Passion Rowman & Littlefield (2022), Noell Birondo.
• Introduction: Hate and Racial Ignorance Rowman & Littlefield (2022), Noell Birondo.
• The Moral Psychology of Hate Rowman & Littlefield (2022), Noell Birondo.

• Race, Hatred, and the Preservation of Ignorance (2024), Volume University of Birmingham, United Kingdom, Noell N. Birondo.
• Race, Hatred, and the Preservation of Ignorance (2024), Volume National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Noell N. Birondo.
• Race, Hatred, and the Preservation of Ignorance (2024), Volume Portland, OR, Noell N. Birondo.
• Aztec Philosophy, Europe, and Decoloniality (2024), Volume El Paso, Texas, Noell N. Birondo.
• Overcoming Race, Gender, and Nature: Malinitzin and Sor Juana (2023), Volume San Francisco, CA, Noell N. Birondo.

• NSF Grant: Mobilizing CAHSI Institutions to Infuse Ethical Reasoning in CS Curricula through Contextualized AI Scenarios ($995K) (11/01/2024 - 04/30/2025) National Science Foundation