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title: "Miguel Casar Rodriguez"
description: "Educator, activist scholar and qualitative researcher."
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# Miguel Casar Rodriguez

Miguel Casar Rodriguez is an educator, activist scholar and Assistant Professor of Qualitative Research at the [University of Alabama](https://education.ua.edu/directory/miguel-casar-rodriguez/). His work connects critical qualitative inquiry with educational justice, asking how young people and communities can question the conditions around them and help shape more just futures.

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me.casarr@gmail.com
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## Research and commitments

- **Critical qualitative research.** Studying how knowledge, power and lived experience shape education.
- **Youth participation.** Working with young people as researchers and participants in decisions that affect their lives.
- **Democracy and education.** Examining public schools, democratic governance and possibilities for educational justice.

His collaborative work includes [youth voice, power and participation in East Side Union](https://transformschools.ucla.edu/research/nothing-about-us-without-us-youth-voice-power-and-participation/) and a [2026 study of California school board members](https://gettingdowntofacts.com/reports/local-control-time-change-work-california-school-board-members).

## Where to go next

- [CV](/cv) — Curriculum vitae and academic background.
- [Research](/research) — Research interests and publications.
- [Projects](/projects) — Projects and collaborations.
- [Media](/media) — Talks, interviews and writing.

## Selected work

- [Critical qualitative inquiry and youth participation](/research/critical-qualitative-inquiry/) — How lived experience, knowledge and power connect to educational justice in Miguel Casar Rodriguez’s work.
- [Nothing About Us Without Us](https://transformschools.ucla.edu/research/nothing-about-us-without-us-youth-voice-power-and-participation/) — Collaborative work on youth voice, power and participation in East Side Union. UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools
- [Local Control in a Time of Change](https://gettingdowntofacts.com/reports/local-control-time-change-work-california-school-board-members) — A 2026 study of the work of California school board members. Getting Down to Facts · 2026

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