Alexa Rodriguez

Alexa Rodríguez, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Virginia. Her research examines schools, migration, and the formation of racial and national identities in both Latin America and 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, gender, class, and national identity during the early twentieth century. She is also the director of the digital humanities project, Dominican Voices Project/Proyecto Voces Dominicanas, a bilingual digital archive comprising audio- and video-recorded interviews with Dominicans born and raised in the Dominican Republic in the early twentieth century. The project preserves local histories and educates students, teachers, and the general public in the English- and Spanish-speaking countries about the history of education and childhood in the Dominican Republic. Additionally, her work has been published in Paedagogica Historica, History of Education Quarterly, Latino Studies, City & State New York, Clio and the Contemporary, and the blog of the History of Education Society in the UK.