Roger Rouse Bio

Roger Rouse received his Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of California at Davis. His research is concerned broadly with theoretical and empirical issues related to the cultural politics of class dynamics. He is particularly interested in exploring how the restructuring of capitalism along neoliberal lines has been played out and experienced over the last three decades in Mexico and the United States. He has pursued these interests ethnographically through research with people involved in migration between rural west-central Mexico and various parts of the United States, most notably California’s Silicon Valley. Reflecting his interest in work at the intersection of anthropology and cultural studies, he is also engaged in a broader, non-ethnographic project that relates shifts in dominant forms of cultural production in the United States since the early 1980s to the growing emphasis on specifically neoliberal and transnational processes of capital accumulation. One of his books, In a Moving World: Transnational Migration, Class Conflict and the Politics of Family Life, will be published by Princeton University Press, and another is in progress.

	*Roger Rouse, Associate Teaching Professor of History*
	Roger Rouse received his Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of California at Davis. His research is concerned broadly with theoretical and empirical issues related to the cultural politics of class dynamics. He is particularly interested in exploring how the restructuring of capitalism along neoliberal lines has been played out and experienced over the last three decades in Mexico and the United States. He has pursued these interests ethnographically through research with people involved in migration between rural west-central Mexico and various parts of the United States, most notably California’s Silicon Valley. Reflecting his interest in work at the intersection of anthropology and cultural studies, he is also engaged in a broader, non-ethnographic project that relates shifts in dominant forms of cultural production in the United States since the early 1980s to the growing emphasis on specifically neoliberal and transnational processes of capital accumulation. One of his books, In a Moving World: Transnational Migration, Class Conflict and the Politics of Family Life, will be published by Princeton University Press, and another is in progress.