#  Joseph Rodriguez 

Graduate Associate

 

 

 



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 email <joseph.i.rodriguez@duke.edu> 

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Joseph Rodriguez is a PhD student in political theory at Duke University. His research interests lie broadly in the history of political, legal, and environmental thought, with a particular focus on the question of nature. His dissertation project draws on Indigenous political thought to develop a political theory of the rights of nature. Prior to Duke, he studied philosophy and political science at the University of California, Berkeley.