Marc S. Rodriguez (Portland State University, Oregon, USA) was 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 began writing his book project, “Mexican American Labor Organizing in Texas and California,” which explores labor organizing among workers of Mexican ancestry in the US Southwest. While at the RIAS, he participated in the PhD workshop “From Research to Publication.”
This was Professor Rodriguez’s second visit to the RIAS. In 2022, he attended the Environmental Justice in US History Conference, where he met RIAS scholars, spent several days enjoying scenic Middelburg, met new people, and chaired a panel.
You can read the report of his time at the RIAS here.