Marc Simon Rodriguez, University of Notre Dame, Department of History

Assistant Professor of History, University of Notre Dame
Concurrent Assistant Professor, Law School, American Studies
Fellow, Institute for Latino Studies, Kroc Institute for Peace Studies

Working within the fields of Mexican American and American legal history, 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. In 2007, Rodriguez received a Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Rodriguez attended the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and holds a Ph.D. in history from Northwestern University (2000) and a J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School (2001). In 2006, Rodriguez founded the “Newberry Seminar on Latino and Borderlands History” which meets several times a year at the Newberry Library in Chicago.

Rodriguez is currently writing a history of the Chicano Movement for Mexican-American civil rights titled Rethinking the Chicano Movement as part of the Routledge Series on American Political and Social Movements of the 20th Century.

Rodriguez is also working on a book length history of the Jury Right in the United States which examines the struggles of African Americans, Mexican Americans, and women to expand the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution to provide fair representation on American juries through a consideration of landmark cases including Strauder v. West Virginia (1880), Ballard v. United States (1946), Hernandez v. Texas (1954), Hoyt v. Florida (1961), and Taylor v. Louisiana (1975) among others.

The Tejano Diaspora: Mexican Americanism and Ethnic Politics in Texas and Wisconsin (University of North Carolina Press, 2011)

“Latino Mural Cityscapes: A Reflection on Public Art, History, and Community in Chicago after World War II” in Martin Butler, Jens Martin Gurr, and Olaf Kaltmeier (eds), EthniCities: Ethnicity and Metropolitan Cultures in the Americas (Trier, Germany: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2011)

"Defining the Space of Participation: Tejanos and the Struggle for the War on Poverty in Milwaukee" in Annelise Orleck (ed.), The War on Poverty: A New Grass Roots History, 1964-1980 (University of Georgia Press, 2011).

“More than Whiteness: Comparative Perspectives on Mexican-American Citizenship from Law and History” Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 18 (2008)

Co-editor with Anthony T. Grafton, Migration in History: Human Migration in Comparative Perspective (University of Rochester Press, 2007)

Editor, Repositioning North American Migration History: New Directions in Modern Continental Migration, Community, and Citizenship (University of Rochester Press, 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).

Marc S. Rodriguez, Ph.D., J.D.