Rodolfo D. Torres

UCI School of Social Ecology

Rodolfo D. Torres

Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy and Political Science
Ph.D. Claremont Graduate School
(949) 824-7680
rodolfo@uci.edu
218D Social Ecology I

Department:
Urban Planning and Public Policy

Specializations:
Radical urbanism, Mexican American politics and labor, economic democracy, and Marxist inspired political economy

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. Administration, Social Policy, and Planning, Claremont Graduate School
  • Visiting Graduate Student, Department of Economics, (Political Economy and Urban Economics) University of California, Riverside
  • M.P.P. Public Policy Studies  Claremont Graduate School
  • B.A. Comparative Culture (Political Economy and Social Theory)—cum laude University of California, Irvine

 RECENT HONORS

  • Republic of Cyprus and the European Regional Development Fund (2012)
  • Daniel Stokols Award for Interdisciplinary Research, School of Social Ecology, UC Irvine, 2010
  • Visiting Scholar, Cyprus University of Technology, April-May 2010
  • Honorary Research Staff, Faculty of Law,Business & Social Sciences, Centre for Research on Racism, Ethnicity, and Nationalism, University of Glasgow, Scotland (2007-2008)
  • Co-Founder, Center on Inequality and Social Justice, UC Irvine (2007)
  • Visiting Professor of Political Economy, Department of Sociology, University of Glasgow, Scotland (2007-2008)
  • Adam Smith Research Foundation Fellow, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 2007.
  • Keynote Speaker, “Rethinking, Once Again, Class and Inequality” International Sociological Association, Cyprus, May 2007

Rodolfo D. Torres was born and raised in East Los Angeles. He is Professor of Urban Planning, Chicano/Latino Studies, Political Science and Culture and Theory. He is a recipient of the prestigious Adam Smith Foundation Fellowship, University of Glasgow, Scotland. His current research areas include: Latino Urbanism, Direct Economic Democracy and Atlernative Futures, Mexican American labor and politics, and Marxist and anarchist inspired political economy. On a personal note, he enjoys listening to the music of Amy Winehouse, Los Lobos and the blues of John Lee Hooker, Buddy Guy, and  recently Charlie Musselwhite and Ben Harper.