Assistant Professor

Sociology

Areas: community-engaged learning, community-based research, Immigration, health inequality, violence

Research and Teaching Interests

Dr. Florencia Rojo completed her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of California, San Francisco. Informed by her training as a medical sociologist and her work with immigrant families and communities of color, her three primary areas of teaching-scholarship are Latinx im/migration, violence, and community-based research. In each intersecting domain, she considers how research—as a language of power—can be used to challenge dominant power relations. She works with academics and non-academics, traditional and lay experts alike, as equal research collaborators. Her teaching approach bridges scholarship and social justice work through critical community-engaged pedagogies. She conducts participatory action research projects with youth and adult community collaborators from Colorado Springs.

You can find more details about her recent collaborative project with Food to Power and the Participatory Action Research Team for Youth (PARTY) by clicking here.

Regular Classes

SO101 Inequality in the U.S.

SO290 Rethinking Violence in Society

SO290 Crimmigration

SO390 Community-Based Research