Dominique Rodríguez

Education / Degrees

• Ph.D. Candidate in Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of New Mexico (in progress)
• M.A. in Spanish, Concentration in Hispanic Linguistics, University of New Mexico (2018)
• B.A. in Spanish, Minor in Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of New Mexico (2016)

Biography

Dominique Rodríguez is an Assistant Professor of Spanish at The University of New Mexico-Valencia. She is a doctoral candidate and instructor in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department at The University of New Mexico and has taught as adjunct faculty in the Department of Languages and Culture at New Mexico Highlands University. She holds a master's degree in Spanish with a concentration in Hispanic Linguistics. She is a generational Nuevomexicana whose teaching experiences includes courses in Spanish language acquisition and Chicana/o/x Studies. Her research interests in Chicana and Chicano Studies include examining the role of gendered power dynamics in Chicana/o/x spiritual beliefs, cultural norms, and traditional medicine practices. Her current research examines how Chicanx spiritual healers in the U.S. Southwest exercise personal power in their practices of Curanderismo and/or Brujería. She is particularly interested in how spiritual healing practices serve as a point of resistance to systems of oppression.

Selected Publications

Rodriguez, Dominique E. “A Project of Liberation: Decolonial Thinking in Nuevomexicano Cultural Traditions and Scholarship.” In press for the Conference Proceedings from the Eleventh Annual International Conference on The Return of Nationalism.

Cruz, Theresa H., Amy Bachyrycz, Dominique E. Rodriguez, Xingya Ma, Melissa H. Roberts, Stephanie Chambers, John Rafi, Arianna Sanchez, and Ludmila Bakhireva. 2022. “CONSIDER New Mexico: Effects of Naloxone Training among Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians.” Journal of the American Pharmacists Association 62 (3): 757–65.

Professional Organizations

Southwest Hispanic Research Institute Research Faculty
Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS)
National Association of Chicana and Chicano Studies
Latin American Studies Association