Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz
Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz was born and raised in Chicago. He is an associate professor of sociology and co-directs the Latinx Social Science Pipeline initiative and the Anticolonial Lab. Michael joined Berkeley's faculty as part of the Latinx and Democracy cluster.
He received his PhD (Sociology) from Brown University, his MA (Sociology) from the University of Illinois-Chicago, and his BA (Political Science and Mexican and Caribbean Studies) from Northeastern Illinois University. His research and teaching explore the politics of race, knowledge, and temporality, primarily in Latinx communities and movements.
Michael's current research focuses on Puerto Rican diasporic anticolonialism and state repression, demographic imaginaries and population politics, race and political trust, and Du Boisian sociology. With colleagues in Chicago, he co-leads Digitizing the Barrio, a Puerto Rican-focused community archive.
BOOK
Rodríguez-Muñiz, Michael. 2021. Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
- Otis Dudley Duncan Book Award, Sociology of Population Section of the American Sociological Association, 2023
- Winner of the Mary Douglas Book Prize, Culture Section of the American Sociological Association, 2022
- Co-Winner of the Best Book Award, Latino/a Section of the American Sociological Association, 2022
- Honorable Mention for the Charles Tilly Distinguished Book Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section of the American Sociological Association, 2022
RECENT ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Díaz McConnell, Eileen and Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz. 2023. “Demographic Projections and Popular Sentiments in a “Majority-Minority” U.S. State: A Research Brief.” Population Research and Policy Review. 42(98): 1-14.
Díaz McConnell, Eileen and Rodríguez-Muñiz, Michael. 2023. “Between Demographic Optimism and Pessimism? Exploring ‘Neither Good nor Bad’ Responses about Future Ethnoracial Diversification Among U.S. Whites.” Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 20(1): 163-190.
de Leon, Cedric and Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz. 2022. “The Political Sociology of W.E.B. Du Bois.” in The Oxford Handbook of W.E.B. Du Bois, edited by Aldon Morris, Walter Allen, Karida Brown, Dan Green, Marcus Anthony Hunter, Cheryl Johnson-Odim, and Michael Schwartz. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Mora, G. Cristina, Julie Dowling, and Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz. 2021. “‘Mostly Rich White Men, Nothing in Common’: Latino Views on Political (Under)Representation in the Trump Era.” American Behavioral Scientist 65(1): 1180-1192.