Alexa Rodríguez

Alexa Rodríguez was a Mellon Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Education and Human Development. She completed her Ph.D. in History and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is currently working on a book manuscript, Crafting Dominicanidad, a transnational and intellectual history that examines how Dominican stakeholders used public schools to articulate and circulate competing notions of Dominican racial, class, and national identity during the early twentieth century.

Rodríguez is now an assistant professor of education and a faculty affiliate for the Center for Race and Public Education in the South at UVA's School of Education and Human Development as well as at the Edmund W. Gordon Institute for Urban and Minority Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.