College of Mount Saint Vincent

Faculty Member, History

Adjunct Assistant Professor

School of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Thesis Title: Connecting Fragments: Solidarity and Fragmentation in Montréal's Lesbian and Gay Communities, 1960-1977

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Gender, Sexuality and Identity (School for International Training/Universiteit van Amsterdam). Global Social Justice Studies: Latina/o Studies, (Hamilton College). BA, Cultural and Media Studies (Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts). MA, Women's and Gender History (Sarah Lawrence College).

Academic specialization in historical studies and cultural studies, with emphasis on gender, sexuality and nationalism in the Americas and Western Europe. Special interests include the Quiet Revolution, cultural productions and representations/visual culture of gender and sexuality-based social movements, feminist geography and urban studies, and post-colonialism and (trans)nationalism in Canada, the European Union, and Latin America. My MA thesis (and current academic research) examines solidarity and fragmentation among nascent francophone and anglophone gay and lesbian organizations in the midst of contemporary Québec nationalism Quiet Revolution in Montréal, Canada. A published brief excerpt from my thesis can be located here: http://www.slc.edu/graduate/programs/womens-history/newsletter/Thesis_Excerpt.html

I have recently become interested in working on an independent project exploring the social and cultural history of Parkchester in the Bronx, New York. I hope to investigate the neighbourhood's  conception by Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in the 1930s as a model of modern living for Worlds Fair '39 to its current urban redevelopments.

I am currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor of History and Women's and Gender Studies at Berkeley College--Newark. I have also taught undergraduate courses on Contemporary Social Movements in New York City and First-Year Seminars at The New School.

My work experience is specialized in higher education instruction and administration, urban school and curriculum reform, gender and sexuality issues, and international/intercultural affairs.

I can be contacted via email at grodriguezjr@gmail.com.

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