Allison Rodriguez is an historian of Central and Eastern European history, with a special focus on Germany and Poland.  Her dissertation examines creations of belonging and national identity in the borderland region of Upper Silesia during and immediately after the First World War.  In her teaching she encourages students to question not only the given sources but also their perceptions of history, in order to gain a deeper understanding of both the past and the present.

• Fulbright Fellowship, 2009-2010.
• Foreign Language Area Study (FLAS) Fellowship for Summer Language Instruction, Polish, Center for Slavic, Eurasian and Eastern European Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008 and 2007.
• Foreign Language Area Study (FLAS) Fellowship for Summer Language Instruction, German, Center for European Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.
• Mellon Minority/Mays Undergraduate Research Fellow, Cornell University, 2003.