Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez < Back to Writers
Journalist and professor Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez has more than 17 years of daily news experience, mostly as a reporter for The Boston Globe, WFAA-TV in Dallas and The Dallas Morning News. She was on the committee that organized and founded the National Association of Hispanic Journalists in 1982.
She received her Ph.D. as a Freedom Forum doctoral fellow from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1998. Her dissertation, "Brown Eyes on the Web: A U.S. Latino Newspaper Site on the Internet," included a content analysis of a Latino Web newspaper as well as one of the mainstream newspapers in the same market.
Her research interests include the intersection of oral history and journalism, U.S. Latinos and the news media, both as producers of news and as consumers. Since 1999, Rivas-Rodriguez has spearheaded the U.S. Latino and Latina World War II Oral History Project, which has collected interviews with over 450 men and women throughout the country, and put her front and center in the controversy over Ken Burns’ WWII project.
She is the associate director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.