John’s University’s Department of Sociology and Anthropology. Rodriguez is also a 2017-18 Scholar-in-Residence at the Schomburg Center for Research on Black Culture, in Harlem, New York City. His research explores new conceptions of “the human” that are driving the grassroots social movements of late modernity’s structurally marginalized global populations. He is currently writing an intellectual biography of decolonial theorist Sylvia Wynter.