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Prof. Harry Rodríguez |
Professor Harry Rodríguez has been teaching at the college level since 1972 (City College, CUNY). He has also taught at Lehman College (1975-1980); at Hunter College (1980-1983); and at Rutgers University (1983-1988). Since 1988 he has been a professor in the Department of Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies of Hunter College.
He was the co-organizer of the first historiography conference on Puerto Rico (1974) sponsored by the Center for Puerto Rican Studies and co-founder of the Institute for Puerto Rican Policy (a research and policy studies center) with Professor Angelo Falcón. Prof. Rodríguez also helped to organize the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. He received a Ford Foundation Fellowship to pursue graduate studies in history. Also, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Civil Liberties Union.
He has developed new courses for the Departments of Puerto Rican Studies at the colleges he has taught, such as: History of the Puerto Rican Labor Movement; Political Nationalism; Legal System and the Latinos in the United States; and Political Economy of the Caribbean.
Since the Fall of 1994 until the Fall of 1998, he served as Acting Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program at Hunter College. He was a member of the Chief Librarian Search Committee at Hunter College and served in the Academic Senate for six years. In the book, The Puerto Rican Nation, published by the University of Puerto Rico Press in 1994, he wrote a chapter about the trials against the Puerto Rican nationalist, Pedro Albizu Campos, conducted in 1937 and in 1951.
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