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About Steven Rodriguez
Steven P. Rodriguez is an acquisitions editor at Vanderbilt University Press and scholar. He received his PhD in History from Vanderbilt University in 2024. His academic work has been supported by the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR), the Tinker Foundation, and the Goizueta Foundation. His article, “Education is the Precursor to Commerce: Pan-Americanism and Inter-American Education," was recently published in Diplomatic History.Steven P. Rodriguez is received his PhD in History from Vanderbilt University in 2024. He works in publishing as an editor at Vanderbilt University Press, where he acquires books in Latin American studies, Iberian studies, intellectual history, and southern history. You can reach him at steven.p.rodriguez@vanderbilt.edu and follow his twitter at @SPatrickRod.
NBN Episodes hosted by Steven:
September 29, 2024
Academic Writing as if Readers Matter
Academic writing isn’t known for its clarity. While graduate students might see reading and writing turgid academic prose as a badge of honor—a sign o…
August 3, 2022
The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations
In The New Pan-Americanism and the Structuring of Inter-American Relations (Routledge, 2022), David Sheinin and Juan Pablo Scarfi bring together artic…
February 2, 2022
Cuba
“No country is ever just one thing.” In her new book Cuba: An American History (Scribner, 2021), NYU historian Ada Ferrer shows this again and again. …
November 8, 2021
A People Betrayed
Sir Paul Preston’s A People Betrayed: A History of Corruption, Political Incompetence, and Social Division in Modern Spain (Liveright, 2020) is a mast…
August 3, 2021
Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism
In Rotary International and the Selling of American Capitalism (Harvard University Press, 2021), Professor Brendan Goff traces the history of Rotary I…
May 6, 2021
Losing Hearts and Minds
In Losing Hearts and Minds: American Iranian Relations and International Education During the Cold War (Cornell UP, 2017), Matthew K. Shannon, an asso…
January 27, 2021
The Business of Leisure
Professor Andrew Grant Wood’s new edited volume, The Business of Leisure: Tourism History in Latin America and the Caribbean (University of Nebraska P…
December 29, 2020
The Idealist
During the 1940s, many Americans began to rethink America’s place in the world, and they did so with the help of Wendell Willkie. Willkie, the 1940 Re…
December 9, 2020
The Last Good Neighbor
In The Last Good Neighbor: Mexico in the Global Sixties (Duke UP, 2020), Professor Eric Zolov retells the history of 1960s Mexico by focusing on the w…
November 30, 2020
All Against All
In his latest monograph, All Against All: The Long Winter of 1933 and The Origins of the Second World War (Harper, 2020), Professor Paul Jankowski (Br…
November 5, 2020
The Longest Line on the Map
In his book The Longest Line on the Map: The United States, the Pan-American Highway, and the Quest to Link the Americas (Scribner, 2019), Professor E…
October 12, 2020
Statelessness
In her book, Statelessness: A Modern History (Harvard University Press, 2020), Mira L. Siegelberg traces the history of the concept of statelessness i…
August 12, 2020
The Great Mistake
In The Great Mistake: How We Wrecked Public Universities and How We Can Fix Them (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016), Christopher Newfield diagnose…
July 30, 2020
The Hidden History of International Law in The Americas
In his book The Hidden History of International Law in The Americas: Empires and Legal Networks (Oxford University Press, 2017), Juan Pablo Scarfi sho…
June 15, 2020
Borderline Citizens
In Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration (Cornell University Press 2018), Robert C. McGreevey ex…