Gerardo Rodriguez-Solis is a University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow. For more than 15 years, he has been an active researcher, writer, and educator in the social sciences, conducting academic projects and policy evaluations, teaching at higher and secondary education levels, facilitating workshops for public employees, and collaborating with civil society organizations. His research examines how transnational corporations implement and celebrate socially responsible practices and how state agencies facilitate and cheer this agribusiness management style while migrant workers confront surveillance, confinement, racial hostility, and labor exploitation. Dr. Rodriguez-Solis has analyzed this disputed process through ethnographic studies in contemporary plantations in western and northern Mexico.
Education
Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2024
M.A. in Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2019
M.A. in Social Anthropology. El Colegio de Michoacán, Mexico, 2013
B.A. in Sociology, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico, 2010
Research Lab
Critical Studies in Food, Health & Environment Lab
Selected Publications
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2025, “Spatial Labor Controls of Contemporary Plantations: A Supervised Ethnography in Campo Los Soles,” Anthropology News
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2024, “Trayectoria y Contradicciones del Programa de Atención a Jornaleros Agrícolas en Hermosillo, Sonora, 1990-2018,” Carta Económica Regional
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2023, “Racismo antiindígena y control espacial. Los sistemas de galeras en plantaciones de Jalisco y Sonora,” Racismos entrelazados. Intersecciones de las opresiones racistas en México
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2019, “Memorias de racismo, explotación y resistencia. El corte de caña en el Valle Autlán-El Grullo, México, 1968-2013,” Revista Latinoamericana de Antropología del Trabajo
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2015, “Agricultural Workers, Credit Rationing and Family Networks in Rural Mexico.” Journal of Development Studies
Selected Honors and Awards
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2024-2026UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
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2023-2024Elinor Ostrom Fellowship. George Mason University
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2022Graduate Division Dissertation Fellowship. UCSB
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2017-2022Doctoral Fellowship.CONACYT & UCMEXUS
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2015Honorary mention in the category of master’s thesis. Cátedra Interinstitucional Arturo Warman.
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2011-2013Master Fellowship. CONACYT.
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2008-2009Fellowship for B.A. External Thesis. CIESAS.
Agricultural Labor, Human Migration, Racial Capitalism, State Formation
