Marc S. Rodriguez (Portland State University, Oregon, USA) is the Spring Roosevelt Visiting Professor from 1 May to 31 May 2026.
Marc S. Rodriguez (Portland State University, Oregon, USA) is a historian of Mexican American/Chicanx history. He is the author of Rethinking the Chicano Movement (2014) and The Tejano Diaspora: Mexican Americanism and Ethnic Politics in Texas and Wisconsin (2011), which won the National Association of Chicano and Chicana Studies’ Texas Nonfiction Book Award. He is also the editor of Repositioning North American Migration History: New Directions in Modern Continental Migration, Citizenship, and Community (2004) and coeditor, with Anthony Grafton (Princeton), of Migration in History: Human Migration in Comparative Perspective (2007). For many years he has served as an Organization of American Historians (OAH) Distinguished lecturer.
Rodriguez edits the Pacific Historical Review (PHR), a leading peer reviewed historical journal. Rodriguez travels widely in his role as Editor of the PHR attending conferences from Los Angeles to Hong Kong and beyond offering workshops on publishing and journals for academics and graduate students.
At the RIAS, Marc will begin writing his current book project: “Mexican American Labor Organizing in Texas and California” which will explore labor organizing in the US Southwest among Mexican ancestry workers. While at the RIAS he will participate in the PhD workshop “From Research to Publication”.
This is Professor Rodriguez’s second visit to RIAS. In 2022 he attended the Environmental Justice in US History Conference where he met the scholars of the RIAS, and was able to spend several days enjoying scenic Middelburg, meeting new people, and chairing a panel.
