Anthony Bayani Rodriguez, Ph.D. Candidate

Department of American Studies & Ethnicity

University of Southern California

Address: 932 Maltman Ave. #3, Los Angeles, CA 90026

Phone: 571-239-3902 Email:

Educational Background / (Ph.D.) University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (2009-2013)
-Dissertation manuscript, “Heretical Scripts: Sylvia Wynter's Early Intellectual Life in the Decolonial Atlantic, 1928 - 1984”
-Dissertation committee: Kara K. Keeling (Chair), Robin D.G. Kelley, Macarena Gomez-Barris, Francille R. Wilson.
-2013 Futures of American Studies, conference participant.
-2011 – 2012, Marta Feuchtwanger Merit Research Award.
(M.A.) University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (2006-2009)
-Specializations in: 20th Century Black Radical Intellectual History, the Decolonial Atlantic World, Race & Modernity, and Critical Media/Cultural Studies.
-2009, USC Gender Studies certification.
-2009, USC Visual Studies certification.
-2006 – 2009, Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow.
(A.B.) Brown University, Providence, RI (2003-2006)
-2006, Brown University Honors Thesis Award for: “Pageants of Hybridity: Multiculturalism, White Supremacy, & the Brazilian National Imagination.”
-2006, A.B. with concentrations in Ethnic Studies, Black/Africana Studies, and Modern Culture & Media.
Publications &
Works-in-Progress / -“Heretical Scripts: Sylvia Wynter's Early Intellectual Life in the Decolonial Atlantic, 1947 – 1984,” a doctoral dissertation written under the advisement of: Dr. Kara Keeling (Chair), Dr. Robin D. G. Kelley, Dr. Francille Wilson, Dr. Panivong Norinder. Manuscript to be filed August 2013.
-“Sylvia Wynter in the Decolonial Atlantic,” currently under review with the Journal of Transnational American Studies for the forthcoming special issue on the Caribbean.
-“Review Essay: Being Human: Critical Essays on Sylvia Wynter” (Ed. Mckittrick & Walcott). Will submit for consideration in Social Text in the Fall of 2013.
-“A Fanonian Reading of Spike Lee's Bamboozled,” Paren(thesis) Magazine, Brown University, 2006.
Conferences & Presentations / “The Neocolonial Contexts of Sylvia Wynter's Decolonial Thought”
7th Conference of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide AfricanDiaspora (ASWAD)
The Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, November 2013.
What, in our context, is history? What is our context?: The Political Histories & Geographies of Sylvia Wynter's Decolonial Humanism”
The Future of American Studies Institute (FASI)
Dartmouth College, Hanover, Massachusetts, June 2013.
“West Indian Decolonization & Sylvia Wynter's Early Writings”
Seventh Annual USC Mazon Dissertation Research Symposium
Program mentor: Dr. Robin D. G. Kelley
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, March 2013.
“Sylvia Wynter's Early Life in the Decolonial Atlantic”
National Council for Black Studies 37th Annual Conference
Indianapolis, Indiana, March 2013.
“The Bombing of Osage Avenue: Toni Cade Bambara's Radical Historical Imagination”
The 1st Annual Critical Ethnic Studies
University of California, Riverside, March 2011.
Teaching / -Teaching Assistant, University of Southern California, Dept. American Studies & Ethnicity/Dept. Critical Studies, Spring 2013, “Race, Ethnicity & Film”
(Dr. Kara Keeling)
-Teaching Assistant, University of Southern California, Dept. American Studies & Ethnicity, Fall 2012, “Race, Class & Los Angeles”
(Dr. Javon Johnson)
Awards / -2011-2012 Marta Feuchtwanger Dissertation Fellowship
-2006 - 2009 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship
Professional Memberships &
Affiliations / -The American Studies Association (2006-Present)
-The National Council for Black Studies (2010-Present)
-Ford Foundation Community of Fellows
Language Proficiencies / -Tagalog, native speaker
-Portuguese, reading/writing proficiency
References / -Dr. Kara K. Keeling
Professor of Critical Studies, USC,
-Dr. Robin D. G. Kelley
Gary B. Nash Professor of History, UCLA,
-Dr. Macarena Gomez-Barris
Professor of Sociology, USC,
-Dr. Francille Rusan Wilson
Professor of African American Studies, USC,
-Dr. John Carlos Rowe
Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity, USC, johnrowe@usc

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