Alexa Rodriguez

Alexa Rodríguez is an assistant professor and faculty affiliate at the Carter G. Woodson Institute, as well as a faculty affiliate in the Latin American Studies Program at the University of Virginia. She is a 2024–26 postdoctoral fellow with the National Academy of Education and the Spencer Foundation. Her current book project, Crafting Dominicanidad (forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press), is an intellectual history that explores how Dominicans used public schools to articulate and circulate competing visions of national identity in the early twentieth century. Her work has appeared in History of Education Quarterly, Latino Studies, City & State New York, Clio and the Contemporary, and on the blog of the History of Education Society in the UK.

Ph.D., Teachers College, Columbia University, 2021
M.S. Ed., Johns Hopkins University, 2015
B.A., Fordham University, 2013

• Latin America and US
• Migration and diasporas
• Nationalism and civic education
• Historical methodologies