Gabriela Roxana Carone Obituary

Gabriela Roxana Carone (Buenos Aires, 22 of July 1964) is an Argentine philosopher and tango dancer. She obtained her Licentiate in Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires in 1989 with the highest honors and an A+ average which made her earn the "gold medal" (allotted only to the best student at the University); and her Ph.D. in Philosophy at King's College London in 1995. She won a British Council award for doctoral studies in England in 1991, after the publication of her first book, La noción de dios en el Timeo de Platón, in that same year.

She was an Assistant Professor at the University of Buenos Aires between 1989 and 1995, when she was promoted to a higher position ("Jefa de Trabajos Prácticos") by national competition. To this she resigned to take up a professorial position at the University of Colorado at Boulder which she held between 1996 and 2006; having been the recipient of numerous prizes and awards. These include teaching awards from both the University of Buenos Aires (1994) and the University of Colorado (2003); research fellowships from the University of Buenos Aires (1992), the CONICET (National Research Council in Argentina, 1989-1992, 1995-1997); the Fundación Antorchas (Buenos Aires, 1994-5), the University of Colorado (1998, 2002), and a one-year Fellowship from the US National Endowment for the Humanities (2004).

She spent one year at the Princeton University Center for Human Values as a Laurance F. Rockefeller Faculty Fellow (2003-4), followed by another year at the Harvard University Center for Hellenic Studies (2004-5). She returned to Colorado in 2005 to fulfill her vision of opening her own dance school after having taught tango since her 20's, which crystallized in the opening of Gabriela Tango Center, currently located at 3220 Federal Blvd, DENVER CO 80211. Gabriela has taught and performed the tango both in Buenos Aires and internationally and been featured in many media outlets.

She was the first instructor to bring the concept of "Tango therapy" to Boulder and helped spread the concept of "tango as a metaphor for life" since 1995 -- a line of research that she furthered and combined with her philosophical abilities by obtaining her certification as a Philosophical Consultant by the National Philosophical Counseling Association through the Institute for Logic-Based Therapy, and rendering the results in a book that intertwines Philosophy and Tango, and both disciplines' ability to heal, with Palgrave-Macmillan.

She's the author of significant publications both in the fields of philosophy and tango. In addition to dozens of philosophical articles in top international journals, she's the author of three other books: La noción de dios en el Timeo de Platón (there is a second edition with Academia Verlag Germany, with New Introduction and Bibliography, 2010); Plato's Cosmology and Its Ethical Dimensions (Cambridge University Press, 2005, translated into Portuguese as A cosmologia de Platão e suas dimensões éticas, 2008) and Tango as a Metaphor for Life: Philosophy in Motion through Love (forthcoming with Palgrave-Macmillan).

She currently resides in Denver with her partner of twenty years.