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Dylan Rodríguez is an award-winning academic, writer, activist, and public intellectual who holds the title of Distinguished Professor at the University of California-Riverside, where he has worked since 2001.[1]

Rodriguez has played a significant role in the creation of three distinct interdisciplinary fields of study since the late-1990s: Critical Ethnic Studies, Critical Filipino/a Studies, and (abolitionist/radical) carceral studies.[2][3][4][5][6][7]

He is a faculty member in the Department of Black Study as well as the Department of Media and Cultural Studies.[8][9] Rodríguez served as Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies from 2009-2016 and Chair of the UCR Academic Senate from 2016-2020. Since 2021, he has worked as the Co-Director of UC Riverside's Center for Ideas and Society.[10][11] His pedagogical, theoretical and analytical work has contributed to various United States-based and global radical, leftist, and liberationist movements and organizations since the late-1990s, including prison/police/carceral abolition, U.S. political prisoner support, community autonomy and mutual aid, Black liberationist and Palestine solidarity, and anti-colonialist/anti-imperialist projects. [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20] He is widely known as a public-facing radical intellectual. In addition to frequent campus, online, and public lectures and facilitated dialogs, he often contributes to progressive and leftist independent media outlets, including The Intercept, The Real News Network, Black Liberation Media, Black Agenda Report and Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Podcast.[21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32] Rodríguez's writing has appeared in a wide variety of venues, including Harvard Law Review, Truthout, Critical Ethnic Studies, Yes!, Social Text, Public Books, The Black Scholar and Monthly Review.[33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40]

Rodríguez was elected President of the American Studies Association by his peers in 2020 and was named to the inaugural class of Freedom Scholars, a prestigious nomination-only national award program that recognizes " the role that Freedom Scholars play in cultivating and nurturing movements for justice and freedom."[41] [42] During the early part of his career, Rodríguez was named an "Emerging Scholar" in 2006 by Diverse magazine.[43] He has written three single-authored books, including the award-winning work White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide, which won the international 2022 Frantz Fanon Prize.[44][45] Rodríguez also co-edited the field-shaping text Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader, which has earned scholarly praise for curating a new stage in the development of Ethnic Studies and related fields of study.[46]

As the UC Riverside Senate Chair, Rodríguez led the UCR campus faculty through a major administrative leadership crisis in 2016-2017, culminating in the resignation of campus Provost/Executive Vice Chancellor Paul D'Anieri.[47][48] He has made repeated public criticisms of the University of California administration for failing to take the problems of antiblack and racist police violence seriously, instead offering superficial institutional reforms and powerless "task forces" as pacifying public relations measures.[49][50] As a University of California faculty member, he is part of a yearslong effort to implement an Ethnic Studies curriculum in the California public school system and has criticized outside efforts by Zionist organizations and lobbyists to dilute its content by eliminating references to Palestine and struggles for Palestinian freedom.[51] As a result of these and other public positions, Rodríguez is a periodic target of right-wing criticism, doxxing, harassment, and death threats.[52][53][54]

Rodríguez was a co-founder or founding member of several national organizations, including the prison abolitionist organization Critical Resistance, Abolition Collective, Critical Ethnic Studies Association, Cops Off Campus, Scholars for Social Justice, and the UC Riverside Department of Black Study, among others.[55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63]


Education

Rodríguez earned two Bachelor's degrees as an undergraduate (1991-1995) at Cornell University in Africana Studies and the College Scholar Program. He was also the first student to earn the Concentration degree in Asian American Studies.[64] He worked closely with Professors James Turner, Gary Okihiro, and Sunn Shelly Wong. Immediately upon completion of his studies at Cornell, he entered the Ph.D. program in Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley (1995-2001), where he studied under Professors Angela Y. Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Michael Omi, Stephen Small, Raka Ray, Robert Allen, and others.[65] [66]

References

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  4. ^ "What would abolishing police powers in the UK look like?". Metro. 18 June 2020.
  5. ^ Adama, Natascha (21 October 2018). "Critical ethnic studies: a reader". Ethnic and Racial Studies. doi:10.1080/01419870.2018.1432876.
  6. ^ Patel, Soham (2017). "Review of Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader, Nada Elia, Jodi Kim, Shana L. Redmond, Dylan Rodríguez, Sarita Echavez See, and David Hernández". ReOrient. pp. 105–110. doi:10.13169/reorient.3.1.0105.
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  9. ^ "People". UCR | Department of Black Study. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  10. ^ Andrews-Duve, Myles (13 January 2017). "Academic Senate Chair Dylan Rodriguez on UCR leadership crisis". Highlander. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  11. ^ Henshaw, Katharine. "People". UCR | Center for Ideas and Society. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  12. ^ "The Political Logic of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex - Page 2". The Scholar & Feminist Online. 24 November 2015. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
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  15. ^ "Co-optation and Concealment within the Mutual Aid-Industrial Complex". Columbia Political Review. 8 March 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  16. ^ ""White Reconstruction" - Dylan Rodriguez On Domestic War, The Logics of Genocide, and Abolition". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  17. ^ "Event: The Future of Campus Policing". CalMatters. 5 April 2021. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  18. ^ Kolhatkar, Sonali. "Abolition Through the Ages: Reform Versus Transformation, Then and Now". Yes! Magazine. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  19. ^ Rodriguez, Dylan. "ABOLITION AS PRAXIS OF HUMAN BEING: A FOREWORD" (PDF). Harvard Law Review website. Harvard Law Review. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
  20. ^ ABOLITION NOW! TEN YEARS OF STRATEGY AND STRUGGLE AGAINST THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX (PDF). AK Press. 2008. Retrieved 4 September 2024.
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  22. ^ "Racial Genocide Focus of American Studies Lecture". UNM Newsroom. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  23. ^ "Distinguished Visitors Talk by Dylan Rodriguez, Distinguished Professor in Black Study and Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside". www.haverford.edu. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  24. ^ "Professor Dylan Rodriguez Lecture". Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  25. ^ "HRI". calendars.illinois.edu. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  26. ^ "Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: Beautiful Revolutionary Wildness and Counterinsurgency with Dylan Rodríguez". millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  27. ^ Academic Strikers Form Solidarity Across the Atlantic, 2022-12-09, retrieved 2024-11-09
  28. ^ Conway, Eddie (2022-02-07). "Revolt against the carceral world". The Real News Network. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  29. ^ "Ep. 46: (Un)learning for Liberation w/ Joshua Virasami; Dylan Rodríguez; Sonya Childress; Asher Gamedze; Thenmozhi Soundararajan; Kelsey Mohamed; Camille Barton; Aditi Jaganathan". STANCE PODCAST. 2021-05-01. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  30. ^ Black Liberation Media (2024-04-23). Rootwork: Stop Asian Hate Entwined with Zionism & Policing. Retrieved 2024-11-09 – via YouTube.
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  33. ^ Rodriguez, Dylan (2019). "ABOLITION AS PRAXIS OF HUMAN BEING: A FOREWORD" (PDF). Harvard Law Review. 132: 1575–1612.
  34. ^ Rodríguez, Dylan (2021-05-03). "University of California Pushes to Militarize and Expand Its Police Force". Truthout. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
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  38. ^ "How the Stop Asian Hate Movement Became Entwined with Zionism, Policing, and Counterinsurgency". Critical Ethnic Studies. 2024-04-10. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
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  41. ^ ""2020-2021 President Dylan Rodríguez"". American Studies Association. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
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  43. ^ "Emerging Scholars: Counting on Critical Resistance". Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. 2006-01-11. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
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  45. ^ "Frantz Fanon Award". The Caribbean Philosophical Association. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  46. ^ Soham Patel, Null (2017-10-01). "Book review". ReOrient. 3: 105–110. doi:10.13169/reorient.3.1.0105. ISSN 2055-5601.
  47. ^ "UC Riverside faculty targets provost Paul d'Anieri with no-confidence vote". 9 December 2016.
  48. ^ X; Instagram; Email; Facebook (2016-12-17). "UC Riverside provost to resign amid widespread faculty concerns over his leadership style". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2024-11-09. {{cite web}}: |last2= has generic name (help)
  49. ^ "Defund or reform UC campus police? Sharp disagreement surfaces". 3 February 2021.
  50. ^ "UC pledges 'transformational change' to bring more equity, transparency to campus policing". 18 August 2021.
  51. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/us/california-ethnic-studies-israel-gaza-war.html. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  52. ^ Liphshiz, Cnaan (January 18, 2021). "U of California, Riverside prof says Zionism 'politically toxified our schools'". The Times of Israel. Retrieved November 8, 2024.
  53. ^ "Authors of California Ethnic Studies Curriculum Decry Cuts to Arab…". Jewish Currents. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  54. ^ Gutmann, Andrew (2024-02-16). "The NYT finally admits it: Schools are teaching our kids divisive critical race theory". Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  55. ^ Roberts, Dorothy E. (2019-11-08). "Abolition Constitutionalism". Harvard Law Review. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  56. ^ "Critical Resistance Presents Breaking Down the Prison Industrial Complex". Critical Resistance. 2017-07-22. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  57. ^ "Dylan Rodríguez". UCR | Department of Black Study. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  58. ^ "FAQs". Cops Off Campus Coalition. 2020-12-10. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  59. ^ "Dylan Rodríguez – Social Justice Portal Project". sjiportalproject.com. Retrieved 2024-11-09.
  60. ^ "Critical Ethnic Studies: A Reader". Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  61. ^ "Dylan Rodríguez – Social Justice Portal Project". sjiportalproject.com. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  62. ^ "Dylan Rodriguez on CR '98: "Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex"". YouTube. 29 September 2022. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  63. ^ "Defund or reform UC campus police? Sharp disagreement surfaces". Los Angeles Times. 3 February 2021. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  64. ^ "Alumni | Asian American Studies Program". asianamericanstudies.cornell.edu. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  65. ^ "AAS Alumni Reflections: Dylan Rodriguez '95 | Asian American Studies Program". asianamericanstudies.cornell.edu. 16 January 2020. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
  66. ^ "Dylan Rodriguez". ethnicstudies.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
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