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.