Author: Alexa Rodríguez

Alexa Rodríguez is an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia and a 2024 postdoctoral fellow for the National Academy of Education and Spencer Foundation. 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 scholarly journals such as History of Education Quarterly and Latino Studies, as well as public-facing venues such as City & State New York, Clio and the Contemporary, and the blog of the History of Education Society in the UK. Rodríguez’s term on the Editorial Board is from 2024 to 2027.