Michael Rodríguez-Mu?iz

Associate Professor

Curriculum Vitae
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Research Interests
Race and Ethnicity, Sociology of Knowledge and Culture, Latinx Politics and Identity, Political Sociology, Du Boisian Sociology, Ethnographic and Qualitative Methods



I am an associate professor of sociology born and raised on Chicago’s northwest side. I received my PhD from Brown University, my MA from the University of Illinois-Chicago, and my BA from Northeastern Illinois University. Before coming to Berkeley in Fall 2022, I taught sociology and Latina/o Studies at Northwestern University.
My 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, I am actively involved in the building of a Puerto Rican-focused community archive in Humboldt Park, Chicago.
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Representative Publications
Rodríguez-Mu?iz, Michael. 2021. Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Winner of the Best Book Award, Latino/a Section of the American Sociological Association, 2022
Winner of the Mary Douglas Book Prize, Culture 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
Díaz McConnell, Eileen and Rodríguez-Mu?iz, Michael. 2022. “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. (Online first)
Mora, G. Cristina, Julie Dowling, and Michael Rodríguez-Mu?iz. 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.
Rodríguez-Mu?iz, Michael. 2020. “Towards a Political Sociology of Demography.” Pp. ?384-407 in The New Handbook of Political Sociology: States, Parties, Movements, Citizenship and Globalization, edited by Thomas Janoski, Cedric de Leon, Joya Misra, and Isaac Martin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Rodríguez-Mu?iz, Michael. 2017. “Cultivating Consent: Nonstate Leaders and the Orchestration of State Legibility.” American Journal of Sociology 123: 1-41.