Evelyn I. Rodriguez is a second-generation Pinay, who was born
in Honolulu, raised in San Diego, and is now an Assistant Professor
for the University of San Francisco's Sociology
Department. She also is a faculty member in the Asian American
Studies and Maria Elena Yuchengco Philippine Studies Programs. She
graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from UC San Diego as a
Sociology major/Ethnic Studies minor; and received her M.A. and
Ph.D. from UC Berkeley's Sociology program. She has taught
Sociological Methods, Asian and Pacific Islanders in U.S. Society,
People of Mixed Descent, U.S. Immigration and Settlement, and
Community Organizing.
Professor Rodriguez has studied race, ethnicity, immigration,
gender, culture, families, and identity in California, the
Philippines, and Latin America. Her most recent work examines
coming-of-age rituals in Mexican and Filipino American immigrant
families, and uses these events as windows into immigrant and
second-generation experiences. This was the topic of her doctoral
dissertation, and is the basis for her first book. Her past work
includes studies of mestizo Filipino American families,
intersections of Filipino and Mexican histories and cultures
(Asia Pacific: Perspectives, Summer 2006), the use of
interdisciplinary social science methods (presented at the 2001
American Sociological Association Annual Meeting), and Asian
American masculinities (presented at the 1999 American Sociological
Association Annual Meeting).
