Research Bio

Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz is associate professor in the Department of Sociology.  His current research focuses on the following: 1) the afterlives of anticolonialism and state repression; 2) the transformation of demographic imaginaries and population politics; 3) the racialization of contemporary political trust; and 4) the epistemic and methodological foundations of Du Boisian sociology. In addition, he is actively involved in the building of a Puerto Rican-focused community archive in Humboldt Park, Chicago.

He received has a PhD from Brown University, a MA from the University of Illinois-Chicago, and a BA from Northeastern Illinois University. Before coming to Berkeley in Fall 2022, he taught sociology and Latina/o Studies at Northwestern University.

Research Expertise and Interest

race and ethnicity, sociology of knowledge and culture, Latinx politics and identify, political sociology, Du Boisian sociology, ethnographic methods, qualitative methods, public impact research/scholarship, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships, social justice research