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Annette M. Rodriguez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin. She completed her BA and MA in American Studies at the University of New Mexico and obtained her PhD from Brown University in 2016. Dr. Rodriguez's research interests center on public violence, U.S. empire, nation-building, U.S. racial formation, immigration, and the production of U.S. citizenship. Her book project, titled Inventing Mexican: Visual Culture of Lynching in the Turn of the Twentieth Century, explores the intersections of performance, popular culture, and visuality in the racial construction of identity. She has also initiated a data mapping and social history project on U.S. bounty land grants, provisionally titled Intimate Acquisitions: Relational History of U.S. Bounty Lands. Dr. Rodriguez's academic work has been recognized through awards such as the 7th Annual Gloria E. Anzaldúa Award from the American Studies Association Committee on Gender and Sexuality in 2017, and she has previously taught at institutions such as Brown University, Institute of American Indian Arts, University of New Mexico, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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