Fredy Rodriguez-Mejia
- Adjunct Assistant Professor
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Curriculum vitae
Research Interests
Identity formation at the intersection of gendered, ethnic, and class-based struggles among the Ch’orti’ Maya of Western Honduras; indigenous social movements in Latin America; Anthropology of Tourism; and Anthropology of Education.
Biographical Info
Dr. Rodriguez-Mejia is a graduate of Michigan State University's Department of Anthropology. His dissertation research examined identity formation at the intersection of gendered, ethnic, and class-based struggles among the Ch’orti’ Maya of Western Honduras. After serving as a fixed-term faculty for the anthropology department at MSU, he held a post-doctoral research position at Purdue University where he worked with a team of researchers studying the culture of undergraduate engineering students, professors and faculty. He also held a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor position at Augustana College in Rock Island, IL.
Publications
2021 Rodríguez-Mejía, Fredy. “Educational Anthropology and Engaged Approaches to Teaching and Learning.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Oxford University Press, 2018—. Article published February 23, 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.203.
2021 Briody, Elizabeth K., Fredy R. Rodriguez-Mejia, Julia King and Edward J. Berger. “Understanding Culture through Pictures and a Thousand Words.” Annals of Anthropological Practice. Article published February 26, 2021. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/napa.12157
2020 “Faculty subcultures in engineering and their implications for organizational change”. Berger, Edward J., Chuhao Wu, Elizabeth K. Briody, Elizabeth Wirtz, Fredy Rodriguez-Mejia. Journal of Engineering Education, 110(1).
2020 Rodriguez-Mejia, Fredy, Elizabeth K. Briody, Ruth Rothstein, and Edward J. Berger. “Implementing Grassroots Initiatives of Change: The Combined Perspectives from Psychology and Anthropology in an Engineering School”. International Journal of Engineering Education, 36(3):1097-1116.
2019 Elizabeth K. Briody, Fredy Rodriguez-Mejia, Ruth Rothstein, Chuhao Wu, and Edward J. Berger. “Busy Times, Productive Students: Cutoff Points Marking Time in University Engineering Culture,” Proceedings of the Eight Research in Engineering Education Symposium, Cape Town, South Africa, July 10-12, 2019:568-577.