Born and raised in the Caribbean, Rodney graduated in Spring 2023 with a BA magna cum laude in History of the Americas, Foreign Languages (French and German), and Music (with some credits in Latin American Art History) from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus (UPRRP), where he was awarded the Luis Muñoz Marin Prize in History of the Americas.
As a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow (MMUF), he worked on interdisciplinary undergraduate papers in the fields of Music, History, and Art History, such as his recently published article "Forms of Resistance and Exclusion in...