Rate My Professor Cesar Rodriguez

In his teaching, Rodriguez worked with diverse student populations using critical perspectives, incorporating empirical case studies, creative writing, video documentaries, visual art, music, investigative journalism, and advocacy group reports to foster robust analytics for reading the social world. His experience spans serving as a graduate student instructor at UCSB, tutor and program coordinator at community colleges, and mentor for undergraduate students of color through the TRiO Student Support Services program and campus organizations. Dedicated to diversifying higher education, he contributed to pipeline programs and organized events hosting guest speakers from Latin America. Key publications include the co-authored Santa Barbara Campaign for Youth and Families Community Summits Report (2011, with Christian Jaimes), which gathered input from impacted communities on preventing youth violence, and Dual Crises of Globalization (2010, with Jeb Sprague), connecting the BP oil spill to Arizona's SB 1070 anti-immigrant law. Rodriguez received the Jackie McLean Fellowship in Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Hartford (2013-2014). At CSUSM, he participated in the Ethnic Studies Minor faculty list, Academic Senate activities, and facilitated discussions deconstructing racialized violence through plays in the Conversations that Matter series.