Marc Simon Rodriguez
Assistant Professor 
Concurrent Assistant Professor of Law
Fellow of the Institute for Latino Studies
Field
United States History
Latino/a History
Legal History
Profile
Working within the fields of Mexican American and American legal history, Marc Rodriguez focuses on the relationship between migration, ethnicity, youth politics, state reform, and labor after 1945. Marc Rodriguez came to the University of Notre Dame in 2003 after spending the 2003-04 academic year as The Bill & Rita Clements Research Fellow for the Study of Southwestern America at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas. Before this, Rodriguez was an assistant professor in the Department of History at Princeton University where he also held the post of Executive Secretary of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies. He most recently completed two edited volumes dealing with international and North American migration in comparative context. In 2007, Rodriguez received a Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Rodriguez holds a M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Northwestern University (2000) and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School (2001).
Current Project
Rodriguez is currently completing his first book, tentatively titled Mexican Americanism: The Tejano Diaspora and Ethnic Politics in Texas and Wisconsin after 1950 (forthcoming, University of North Carolina Press), which details the growth of Mexican American politics among migrants and activists in both Texas and Wisconsin after 1950. His new research project is an examination of the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments with an emphasis on the struggle for jury representation for Mexican Americans, African Americans, and women.
Teaching Interests
Rodriguez' teaching at Notre Dame has centered on the study of Mexican American social history and a variety of topics in American legal history.
Recent Publications
Co-editor with Anthony T. Grafton, Migration in History: Human Migration in Comparative Perspective (Rochester, 2007)
Editor, Repositioning North American Migration History: New Directions in Modern Continental Migration, Community, and Citizenship (Rochester, 2004)
“Introduction: Reconsidering Modern Continental Migration, Community and Citizenship,” in Marc S. Rodriguez, Repositioning North American Migration History: New Directions in Modern Continental Migration, Community, and Citizenship (Rochester, 2004)
“Migrants and Citizens: Mexican American Migrant Workers and the War on Poverty in an American City,” in Marc S. Rodriguez, Repositioning North American Migration History: New Directions in Modern Continental Migration, Community, and Citizenship (Rochester, 2004)
“A Movement Made of ‘Young Mexican Americans Seeking Change’: Critical Citizenship, Migration, and the Chicano Movement in Texas and Wisconsin, 1960-1975” Western Historical Quarterly (Autumn, 2003).
Contact
Office: 471 Decio Faculty Hall
Phone: (574) 631-2761
Email: rodriguez.94@nd.edu
Office Hours: by appointment