Dylan Rodriguez is an Associate Professor at the University of California Riverside, where he began his teaching career in 2001. He received his Ph.D. and his M.A. degrees in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and earned two B.A. degrees from Cornell University in Africana Studies (Magna Cum Laude) and the College Scholar Program, as well as a Concentration Degree in Asian American Studies.
Dr. Rodriguez is an interdisciplinary scholar-activist whose interests traverse the fields of critical race studies and cultural studies, with focal attention to the intersections of race, state violence and community/identity formation. His work attempts to engage with the field of radical and revolutionary praxis that has emerged in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, across the different sites and moments of struggle against global racism, white supremacy, and other forms of institutionalized dehumanization. Among other political-intellectual collectives, he has worked with and/ or alongside such organization as Critical Resistance, INCITE!, and The Critical Filipino and Filipina Studies Collective. He has been on the editorial board of the internationally recognized journal, Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict and World Order.
In addition to his book, Forced Passages: Imprisoned Radical Intellectuals and the US Prison Regime, his writing has appeared in a number of scholarly journals and been included in many anthologies.
