Dan Rodriguez-Garcia

Dan Rodríguez-García is Serra Húnter Full Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain. He has held the positions of Department Academic Coordinator/Deputy Chair; Director of Postgraduate Studies (MA and PhD); Director of the Master in Anthropology: Advanced Research and Social Intervention; Director of the European Master in Social and Cultural Anthropology (CREOLE); and Coordinator of the International Mobility Program. He has 26 years of experience teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, notably “Methodology and Epistemology in the Social Sciences,” “Migration and Intercultural Relations,” and “International Migration: Theories and Trends.”

He obtained his PhD (summa cum laude) in 2002 at UAB. Previously he had obtained a three-year Diploma in History (UAB, 1992); a BA in Social and Cultural Anthropology (UAB, 1994); an MSc in Demography (Centre for Demographic Studies, Barcelona, 1997); an MA in Basic and Applied Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology (UAB, 1997); and an MA in Culture, Race, and Difference (University of Sussex, UK, 1998). He has held research fellowships at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom (1997-98), and at the University of Toronto, Canada (2004-05), and he has been a Visiting Professor or Visiting Scholar at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, the Institut National d’Études Démographiques, the University of Vienna, and the University of Toronto.

His main areas of research are migrantion and ethnic minorities, interethnic relations, discrimination, racism, identity, and present day mixedness (intermarriage, multiethnicity and multiracialism), a research line the he pioneered in Spain in the mid-1990s and for which innovative research he has received a number of academic awards.

Professor Rodríguez-García is the founder and current Director of the INMIX Research Group on Immigration, Mixedness, and Social Cohesion at UAB. He is also a member of the Network of Excellence on International Migration, Integration and Social Cohesion in Europe (IMISCOE). As an expert on immigration and diversity, he is often consulted by the media and regularly participates in knowledge transfer for government bodies and civic associations.