Senior Lecturer - Curriculum, Teaching and Learning
Email: clelia.rodriguez@utoronto.ca
Campus
UTSG
Areas of Interest
Decolonizing; Indigenous Studies; Global Education; Land-Based Teaching; Literary and Cultural Studies; Memory
Biography
Dr. Clelia O. Rodríguez is a global scholar, speaker, author, mom and auntie born and raised in the ancestral lands of the Lenka Peoples, the Chorti-Maya and the Nawat currently teaching in the Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). She earned her MA and PhD from the University of Toronto. She is the 2022 ACPA Latinx Network Community Advancement Service Award for her support and encouragement towards the needs of Latinx students and professionals in higher education and has been nominated for awards in Excellency in teaching at OISE. She spent three years traveling the world as a Professor of Human Rights in a Study Abroad program in the United States, Nepal, Jordan, and Chile. Prior to that she was an Assistant Professor at the University of Ghana. She has done archival work on colonialism in Spain, Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico and Equatorial Guinea. As a Policy Gender Advisor with Global Affairs Canada, she has worked in Cuba, Bolivia, Kenya and is currently leading an assignment in Tanzania. She is the founder of SEEDS for Change, a learning transnational collective that brings together Black, Indigenous and educators from the Global Majority to co-create land-based and Indigenous ways of knowing. She is the author of Decolonizing Academia: Poverty, Pain and Oppression. Her work has been published in the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, in the Journal of Popular Education, Critical Pedagogy and Militant Research in Chile, the Black Youth Project, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South, Radical Teacher: A Socialist, Feminist, and Anti-Racist Journal on the Theory and Practice of Teaching, Postcolonial Studies, Revista Iberoamericana, Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education and the Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. Her most recent book chapter titled The Anatomy of One Size Fits All in Sustainability Challenges in the Fashion Industry can be found here.