The Center for Latino and Latin American Studies invites you to "Figures of the Future: Latino Civil Rights and the Politics of Demographic Change" with Professor Michael Rodríguez-Muñi, a virtual event at 6 p.m. April 17, 2025.

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. Rodríguez-Muñiz joined Berkeley's faculty as part of the Latinx and Democracy cluster.

He received his Ph.D. (sociology) from Brown University; his M.A. (sociology) from the University of Illinois-Chicago; and his B.A. (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.

Rodríguez-Muñiz'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. 

In collaboration with the Center for Nonprofit and NNGO Studies and Undocumented Student Resource Center.

Register at go.niu.edu/MichaelRodriguezMuniz.