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  • NEH Summer Seminar (2006)
Negotiating Identities in Art, Literature, and  Philosophy: Cuban Americans and Cuban Culture at the University of New York, Buffalo, NY. Directors: Jorge J.E. Gracia, Lynette Bosch, and Isabel  Alvarez-Borland (2006)



  • NEH Faculty Research Award 2005-2006 ($40,000)


  • APA Prize in Latin American Thought (2004)

“Francisco De Vitoria’s Just Intervention  Theory and the Iraq War,” symposium paper delivered at the American  Philosophical Association Eastern Division in Boston, MA on December 27-30, 2004.


  • APA William James Prize (2003) 

“Overcoming the Evidentialist’s Challenge: Peirce’s Conjectures of Instinctive Reason and the Reality of God," symposium paper delivered at the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division in Washington DC on December 27-30, 2003. Paper was later published in Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 40 (4) 2004: 771-786.