About

Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez is a professor in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas. She has more than 17 years of daily news experience, primarily as a reporter for the Boston Globe, WFAA-TV in Dallas, and the Dallas Morning News. Her early career included working as a copy editor for UPI in Dallas and serving as the Morning News U.S.-Mexico border bureau chief based in El Paso. Her research interests include the intersection of oral history and journalism, as well as U.S. Latinos and the news media, focusing on both their roles as producers and consumers of news. She founded the Voces Oral History Project in 1999, which has videotaped interviews with over 960 men and women across the country, with stories written mainly by UT journalism students. The project has multiple components aimed at diverse audiences and has organized conferences, produced books and mini-documentaries, co-produced a play, and created educational materials. It has become an international resource for documentary filmmakers, scholars, journalists, and the public, supported by grants, state funds, and private donations. Rivas-Rodriguez has been active since her college years in volunteer efforts to promote diversity in the news media, including her role in organizing and founding the National Association of Hispanic Journalists in 1982. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a master's from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, and a bachelor's degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

Research topics

• Humanities
• Political Science
• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Philosophy
• Ancient history
• Aesthetics
• Art
• Religious studies
• Law
• History
• Materials science
• Anthropology
• Gender studies

Selected publications

• Foto-Voz: A Secondary Process to Discover the Stories inside the Images in Oral History Projects

  US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal · 2024-10-01

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• The 1970 Uvalde School Walkout

  US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal · 2023-09-13

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  In May 2022, Robb Elementary in Uvalde became the scene of a grisly massacre of nineteen fourth graders and two teachers. After the case made national headlines, many journalists seeking to understand more about Uvalde, this small town southwest of San Antonio, found a chapter in the 2021 book Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas. The book was published by the University of Texas Press and edited by Max Krochmal and J. Todd Moye. That chapter, “The 1970 Uvalde School Walkout,” written by Vinicio Sinta and Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, detailed an insurrection by hundreds of Mexican American children and their families to protest unjust treatment. The walkout was precipitated by the school board’s refusal to renew the contract of George Garza, but in fact, that was only the catalyst. Dissatisfaction had been brewing for years and was about not just one single teacher, but rather a societal structure in the ranching community that relegated Mexican Americans to a subservient status.

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• In the Midst of Radicalism: Mexican American Moderates during the Chicano Movement, 1960–1978

  Journal of American History · 2023 · 1 citations

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  • Political Science
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  Journal Article In the Midst of Radicalism: Mexican American Moderates during the Chicano Movement, 1960–1978 Get access In the Midst of Radicalism: Mexican American Moderates during the Chicano Movement, 1960–1978. By Guadalupe San Miguel. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2022. xii, 177 pp. Paper, $26.95.) Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Issue 3, December 2023, Pages 587–588, https://doi.org/10.1093/jahist/jaad336 Published: 01 December 2023

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  US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal · 2023-09-13

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  US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal · 2022

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  • Computer Science
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• 8. The 1970 Uvalde School Walkout

  University of Texas Press eBooks · 2021 · 1 citations

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• Tijerina, Pedro “Pete” Jr. (1922–2003), attorney and civil rights activist

  American National Biography Online · 2020-01-23

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  US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal · 2020-10-01

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  US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal · 2019-10-01

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• Editor’s Note

  US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal · 2018-10-01

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Frequent coauthors

• Vinicio Sinta

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• Karl Eschbach

  The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

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• Emilio Zamora

  The University of Texas at Austin

  2 shared

• U.S. Latino

  1 shared

• Don Heider

  Santa Clara University

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• Federico Subervi-Vélez

  1 shared

• Phillip B. Gonzales

  1 shared

• C. Byrd

  1 shared