Rafael Martinez Orozco
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7271 E. Sonoran Arroyo Mall Mail Code 2780 Mesa, AZ 85212
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Mail code: 2780Campus: Poly
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Rafael Martínez is an assistant professor of Southwest Borderlands in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts' Faculty of Interdisciplinary Humanities and Communication. Rafael’s work focuses on immigration, migration, the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, and the American Southwest. At ASU, he teaches courses on the American Southwest, the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, and Popular Culture Issues. Rafael is also a Program Faculty for the MA Narrative Studies program in CISA.
As an advocate of community-based-history projects, Rafael is engaged in public projects that seek to connect academic work with community development. As such, he is a current recipient of Knowledge Exchange for Resilience Fellowship where he is co-creating community based research on undocumented populations in the Phoenix Valley. Rafael is part of the inaugural Interdisciplinary Solutions for Social Impact Graduate Faculty program.
Additionally, Rafael is the co-founder of the statewide oral history project, Humans of New Mexico, and also UndocuTalks, a podcast on immigrant rights through an undocumented perspective.
- Ph.D. University of New Mexico (2020), American Studies
- M.A. University of New Mexico (2014), American Studies
- B.B. California State University, Dominguez Hills (2012), History and Chicana and Chicano Studies
