Rocio Garcia
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TEMPE Campus, Mailcode 3701 Tempe, AZ 85287
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Mail code: 7203Campus: Tempe
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Rocio R. Garcia is an assistant professor of sociology in the T. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics. Garcia is a theorist of race and gender who engages in analyses of social action in four areas: social movements, Latinx politics, reproductive justice, and knowledge production. She is currently working on a book manuscript, Latinx Feminist Thought (under advance contract with Routledge Press), to upend commonplace assumptions rampant in the academy and outside of it about who Latinxs are, their concerns regarding an array of social problems, and their contributions to U.S. politics and knowledge production.
Garcia is also an affiliated faculty member with the School of Transborder Studies (STS) in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at ASU.
- Ph.D. Sociology, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) 2019
- M.A. Sociology, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) 2014
- M.A. Sociology, University of Nevada Reno (UNR) 2012
- B.A. Sociology and Spanish, California State University Stanislaus (CSU Stanislaus) 2008
Race, Gender, Class; Latinx and Black feminisms; social movements; social theory; sociology of knowledge; Latinx sociology; culture; reproduction; qualitative methods; immigration and migration
BOOK
García, Rocío R. Latinx Feminist Thought (under advance contract with Routledge Press, Sociology Re-Wired series).
ARTICLES
2020 García, Rocío R. "Latinx Feminist Politicmaking: On the Necessity of Messiness in Collective Action." Mobilization: An International Journal 25(4): 441-460. [lead article] https://doi.org/10.17813/1086-671X-25-4-441
2018 García, Rocío R. “The Politics of Erased Migrations: Expanding a Relational, Intersectional Sociology of Latinx Gender and Migration.” Sociology Compass 12(4):e12571.doi:10.1111/soc4.12571
2015 García, Rocío. “Normative Ideals, ‘Alternative’ Realities: Perceptions of Interracial Dating Among Professional Latinas and Black Women.” Societies 5(4): 807-830. doi:10.3390/soc5040807
BOOK REVIEW
2015 García, Rocío. Review of Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age, edited by Nilda Flores-González, Anna Romina Guevarra, Maura Toro-Morn, and Grace Chang. Labor Studies Journal Vol. 39(4): 321-323.
Courses
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SOC 792 | Research |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SOC 264 | Sociology of Gender |
| FAS 264 | Sociology of Gender |
| SOC 790 | Reading and Conference |
2024 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SOC 264 | Sociology of Gender |
| SOC 585 | Sociological Theory |
| FAS 264 | Sociology of Gender |
| SOC 790 | Reading and Conference |
2023 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
|---|---|
| SOC 264 | Sociology of Gender |
| FAS 264 | Sociology of Gender |
| SOC 792 | Research |
2023 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SOC 590 | Reading and Conference |
2022 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SOC 585 | Sociological Theory |
| SOC 483 | Sociological Theories |
| SOC 790 | Reading and Conference |
2022 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SOC 598 | Special Topics |
2021 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SOC 486 | Contemporary Theory |
| SOC 585 | Sociological Theory |
2021 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SOC 486 | Contemporary Theory |
| SOC 585 | Sociological Theory |
2020 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SOC 486 | Contemporary Theory |
2020 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| SOC 486 | Contemporary Theory |
Dr. Garcia has served as an academic peer reviewer for the following journals:
Sociological Perspectives: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/spx
Latino Studies: https://www.palgrave.com/gp/journal/41276
Social Problems: https://academic.oup.com/socpro
American Journal of Sociology: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/ajs/current
American Sociological Association (ASA)
Pacific Sociological Association (PSA)
The Du Boisian Scholar Network (DSN)
Latina/o Studies Association (LSA)
Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)
Scholars Strategy Network (SSN)