Rodolfo D. Torres

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Administration and Policy Studies (Cognate Field: American Government and Political Economy) Claremont Graduate School
•  M.P.P. Public Policy Studies  Claremont Graduate School
•  B.A. Comparative Culture (Political Economy and Social Theory)—cum laude University of California, Irvine

CURRENT AND EMERGING RESEARCH INTERESTS

• The evolution and politics of class and inequality in the United States
• Chicano and Latino politics. Special attention paid to class and its material, moral and ethical significance in everyday Latino political and economic life
• Politics of racism and anti-racism in the US and Western Europe
• Politics of consumption
• Politics, history and ideology of urban analysis in the United States 
• Political geography (politics in its spatial dimension) 
• Constructing left politics: "third way" and beyond

          Professor Torres has developed theoretically driven methodologies that allow broad policy conclusions             to be drawn from ethnographic and historical case-study methods, archival work, and biographies, and               other times juxtaposing discourse analysis and critical media studies with quantitative data. His aim is to           balance theoretical and social critique with data-driven evidence.

RECENT HONORS

• Co-Founder, Center on Inequality and Social Justice, UC Irvine (2007)
• Visiting Professor of Political Economy, Department of Sociology, University of Glasgow, Scotland 2006-08
• Adam Smith Research Foundation Fellow, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 2007.          
• Keynote Speaker, “Rethinking, Once Again, Class and Inequality” International Sociological Association, Cyprus, May 2007

PUBLICATIONS

Books:

• 2004   Darder, A, and Torres, R.D.  After Race: Racism and Multiculturalism. New York: NY, New York University Press.
• 2004   Martin, E. and Torres, R.D.  Savage State: Welfare Capitalism & Inequality. Boulder: CO, Rowman & Littlefield.
• 2000   Valle, V. M. and Torres, R. D.  Latino Metropolis. Minneapolis:  MN,  University of Minnesota Press

Books Under Contract:

•  2010 Kyriakides, C. and Torres, R.D. Transatlantic Racism: Third Way Politics & Multicultural Capitalism. Stanford: CA, Stanford University Press
•  2011 Torres, R.D. Latino Fortunes: Classes, Markets, and Inequalities. Piscataway: NJ,    Rutgers University Press

Edited Books:

• 2010       Monahan, T. and Torres, R.D. Schools Under Surveillance. Piscataway: NJ, Rutgers University Press.

• 2009        Darder, A, Baltodano, M, and Torres, R.D.  The Critical Pedagogy Reader. New York: NY, Routledge (2nd Edition)

• 2003        Darder, A, Baltodano, M, and Torres, R.D.  The Critical Pedagogy Reader. New York: NY, Routledge

• 2003        Vazquez, F. H. and Torres, R. D.  Latino/a Thought: Culture, Politics, and Society. Boulder: CO, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

• 1999        Torres, R. D. and Katsiaficas, G.   Latino Social Movements: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives.  New York: NY, Routledge

• 1999        Torres, R. D., Mirón, L. F. and Inda, J.  Race, Identity, and Citizenship: A Reader.  Cambridge: MA, Blackwell Publishers.

• 1998        Darder, A. and Torres, R. D.  The Latino Studies Reader: Culture, Economy, and Society.  Cambridge: MA, Blackwell Publishers.

• 1997        Darder, A. and Torres, R. D. and Gutierrez, H.  Latinos and Education: A Critical Reader.  New York: NY, Routledge.

• 1997        Hamamoto, D. and Torres, R. D.  New American Destinies: A Reader in Asian and Latino Immigration.  New York: NY, Routledge.

• Professor Torres is author/co-author of  nearly fifty book chapters and articles on a wide range of topics, including, but not limited to theories of the state,  racism and class relations, Chicano politics, economic restructuring, and urban theory.