Florencia Rojo
BIOGRAPHY
Assistant Professor, James Madison College
Ph.D., University of California, San Francisco; Sociology
Professor Rojo is an Assistant Professor of Social Relations and Policy at James Madison College (JMC). She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, San Francisco. Before joining JMC, she served as an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Colorado College. Rojo’s teaching-scholarship is informed by her training as a medical sociologist and her community advocacy with Latin American immigrant families. Rojo’s research employs participatory action research methodologies to investigate health inequalities, immigration, and neighborhood change through a racial justice and intersectional lens. Her current projects include collaborating with a food justice organization on participatory action research, investigating food systems, cultural foodways, and food justice. Rojo was selected for the Campus Compact Engaged Scholars Initiative cohort for 2023-2024. While at Colorado College, she also received the 2020 Exemplary Achievement in Community-Based Teaching Award and the 2021 Lloyd E. Worner Teacher of the Year Award.