Dylan Rodríguez is a teacher, scholar, organizer and collaborator who has maintained a day job as a Professor at the University of California-Riverside since 2001. He is a faculty member in the recently created Department of Black Study as well as the Department of Media and Cultural Studies. Since the late-1990s, Dylan has participated as a founding member of organizations like Critical Resistance, Abolition Collective, Critical Ethnic Studies Association, Cops Off Campus, Scholars for Social Justice, and the UCR Department of Black Study, among others.
He is the author of three books, most recently White Reconstruction: Domestic Warfare and the Logic of Racial Genocide (Fordham University Press, 2021), which won the 2022 Frantz Fanon Book Award from the Caribbean Philosophical Association. He was President of the American Studies Association in 2020-2021 and in 2020 was named to the inaugural class of Freedom Scholars. Since 2021, he has served as Co-Director of the Center for Ideas and Society.
Dylan can be reached by email at dylanrodriguez73@gmail.com as well as on Twitter (@dylanrodriguez), Instagram (dylanrodriguez73), and Facebook (www.facebook.com/dylanrodriguez73).
“There is a wealth of knowledge, expertise, and experience that remains to be shared among activist scholars, radical organizers, artists, currently and formerly incarcerated activist intellectuals, loved ones of those held captive by the carceral state, and criminalized communities, among others. Our scholarly research, art, focused campaigns and grassroots movements should thrive in the sharing of this body of thought/feeling/action/history, while always remaining focused on the possibilities of liberation and freedom through the abolition of the gendered racist state.”