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Alexa Rodríguez is an assistant professor and a faculty affiliate for the Center for Race and Public Education in the South at the University of Virginia as well as at the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research examines schools, migration, and the formation of racial and national identities in both Latin America and in the United States. She is currently working on a book manuscript, “Crafting Dominicanidad” (forthcoming with University of North Carolina Press), an intellectual history that examines how Dominicans used public schools to articulate and circulate competing notions of racial, class, and national identity during the early twentieth century. Her work has been published in History of Education, History of Education Quarterly, Latino Studies, Caribbean Studies, City & State New York, Clio and the Contemporary, and the blog of the History of Education Society in the UK.

Recent Publications

   Peer Reviewed Journal Articles

• “A Narrative from the Margins: Community and Agency during the US Occupation of the Dominican Republic, 1916-1924,” History of Education Quarterly 63, no. 2 (2023): 179–97.

• “Reflections on 1521 Rebellion: Teaching the History of Early Afro-Descendants in Latin America,” Latino Studies 20, no. 4. (2022): 555–561.

       Book Reviews

• Review of Edgardo Meléndez (2022). The “Puerto Rican Problem” in Postwar New York City. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 240 pp., notes, bibliography, index, $120 cloth, $32.95 paper, $32.95 ebook, $32.95 pdf and Mirelsie Velazquez (2022) Puerto Rican Chicago: Schooling the City. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 218 pp., illustrations, tables, notes, index, $110 cloth, $26 paper, $19.95 ebook. Journal of Urban History (2023).

• Review of Teaching Empire: Native Americans, Filipinos, and US Imperial Education, 1879-1918 by Elisabeth M Eittreim and Educating the Empire: American Teachers & the Contested Colonization in the Philippines by Sarah Steinbock-Pratt, History of Education, 52, no. 6 (2023): 1036-1039.

• Review of American Crusade: Christianity, Warfare, and National Identity by Benjamin James Wetzel, H-War, H-Net Reviews. July, 2023.

• Review of Racial Migrations: New York City and the Revolutionary Politics of the Spanish Caribbean by Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof. Caribbean Studies. 49, no. 1 (2021): 176-180.

   Public Scholarship

• “Should I Write an Op-Ed?” Clio and the Contemporary (March 15, 2023)

• “Education during a Global Health Crisis,” The Blog of the History of Education Society-UK (February 11, 2022)

• “Are Schools the Safest Place for our Children?” City & State: New York (February 2, 2022)

Media Coverage

Strictly Facts: A Guide to Caribbean History and Culture Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1562981/13963095

Social Media

@arodriguez_phd

Country Focus

Dominican Republic, USA

Expertise by Geography

Caribbean, Latin America, United States

Expertise by Chronology

Modern, 20th century

Expertise by Topic

Higher Ed, Local & Regional, Public History, World War I