CLACS Welcomes Fall 2025 Mellon Visiting Professor, Dr. Luz Rodríguez!
We are honored to announce the arrival of the Fall 2025 Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Mellon Visiting Professor, Dr. Luz Rodríguez! Dr. Rodríguez is an assistant professor at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia where she teaches in the School of Environmental and Rural Studies. She previously completed her PhD at Duke, and her research topics include collective action and common goods management, environmental peace construction, ecological economy and environmental justice, farmer/peasant economies and rural development.
In preparation for the Fall 2025 semester, Dr. Rodríguez spoke remotely in April on ‘Environmental Conflicts and Rural Societies’ and generated dynamic discussion among undergraduate and graduate students from multiple disciplines. Her teaching topics will revolve around the analysis of environmental conflicts, environmental justice and collective action in Latin America – including resources such as water, land, minerals and oil.
The CLACS Mellon Visiting Professorship provides the Duke community unique access to courses and events from leading thinkers in Latin America and the Caribbean, enriching educational experiences and advancing co-construction of knowledge.
Dr. Rodríguez Ramirez will teach and co-teach the following Fall 2025 courses, and there just might still be space to enroll!
Reimagining Latin America and The Caribbean: Environmental Conflicts and Rural Societies
LATAMER 306S/ROMST 307S/HISTORY 306S
Tu/Th 1:25PM - 2:40PM, Languages 114
Instructor: Luz A. Rodríguez
Collective Action, Environment, and Development
PUBPOL 579S/ENVIRON 579S
Monday 3:20PM - 5:50PM, Sanford 150
Co-instructors: Alex Pfaff, Luz A. Rodríguez
A welcome reception for Dr. Rodríguez Ramirez will take place at the Spanish Language Program Casita on August 28th from 4:00-5:30 PM and students, faculty, staff, and community members are invited to attend.