Dan Rodríguez-García is tenured Full Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain. He has held the positions of Department Academic Coordinator/Deputy Chair, Director of Postgraduate Studies (MA and PhD), Director of the Master in Anthropology: Advanced Research and Social Intervention, Director of the European Master in Social and Cultural Anthropology – CREOLE (a joint program involving 8 European universities), and Coordinator of the International Mobility Program. He has 28 years of experience teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, notably “Methodology and Epistemology in the Social Sciences,” “Migration and Intercultural Relations,” and “International Migration: Theories and Trends.” He has supervised numerous doctoral and MA theses and has sat on more than 100 Evaluation Committees. 

He obtained his PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology in 2002 at UAB (summa cum laude). Previously he had obtained a three-year Diploma in History (UAB, 1992); a BA in Social and Cultural Anthropology (UAB, 1994); an MSc in Demography (Centre for Demographic Studies, Barcelona, 1997); an MA in Basic and Applied Research in Social and Cultural Anthropology (UAB, 1997); and an MA in Culture, Race, and Difference (University of Sussex, UK, 1998, Batista i Roca Scholarship for Postgraduate Studies in Great Britain). He has held research fellowships at the University of Sussex, United Kingdom (1997-98), and at the University of Toronto, Canada (2004-05), and he has been a Visiting Professor or Visiting Scholar at the University of Toronto (Canada), the Université Paris-Sorbonne (France), the Institut National d’Études Démographiques-INED (France), the University of Vienna (Austria), Malmö University (Sweden), and Eötvös Loránd University (Hungary).

Professor Rodríguez-García is the founder and director of the INMIX Research Group on Immigration, Mixedness, and Social Cohesion at UAB, officially recognized as a Consolidated Research Group by the Government of Catalonia (2021SGR-00181). He is also a member of the Standing Committee RACED (Race, Racism and Discrimination) of the IMISCOE - International Migration Research Network, and an Affiliated Research Member of CERIS–The Ontario Metropolis Centre. As an expert on immigration and diversity, he is often consulted by the media and regularly participates in knowledge transfer for government bodies and civic associations. 

His main areas of research are international migration, interethnic relations, and the social integration processes of immigrants and their descendants. In 1996, he launched a pioneering line of research in Spain on ‘mixedness’ (mixed unions, multiethnicity, and multiraciality), as a crucial lens through which to assess the persistence of prejudices and stereotypes between groups, processes of inclusion and exclusion, racism, and social discrimination. For his work in this field, he has received several research awards.

Professor Rodríguez-García has directed 9 competitive funded research projects and has participated as a senior researcher in another 8. Currently he is the principal investigator (PI) of the project “Dynamics of Mixedness among Roma Populations in Catalonia, Spain: Interethnic Relations, Acculturation and Processes of social Inclusion and Exclusion (GITMIX)”, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (specifically the “National Program for Research Aimed at the Challenges of Society”).

He has authored or (guest-)edited 100+ publications in his field, including books, book chapters, special issues, and peer-reviewed journal articles. Selected publications include the book Managing Immigration and Diversity in Canada: A Transatlantic Dialogue in the New Age of Migration (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2012); Special issues guest-edited for the ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (“Intermarriage and Integration Revisited: International Experiences and Cross-disciplinary Approaches”, 2015), Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (“Re-constructing ways of belonging: Cross-country experiences of multiethnic and multiracial people”, 2021), Genealogy (“Beyond the Frontiers of Mixedness”, 2023), and Migraciones (“Theorising Race, Racialisation and Racism in Spain”, 2025); peer-reviewed journal articles such as “Beyond Assimilation and Multiculturalism: A Critical Review of the Debate on Managing Diversity” (Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2010); “Mixed marriages and transnational families in the intercultural context” (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2006), “Preference and Prejudice: Does Intermarriage Erode Negative Ethno-racial Attitudes Between Groups in Spain?” (Ethnicities, 2016), “Blurring of Colour Lines? Ethnoracially Mixed Youth in Spain Navigating Identity” (JEMS, 2021), “The Persistence of Racial Constructs in Spain. Bringing Race and Colorblindness into the Debate on Interculturalism” (Social Sciences, 2022), and “Rethinking mixed heritage in an era of superdiversity” (Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2026);  or enciclopedia entries such as “Ethnicity, Multiculturalism, and Transnationalism” (International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 2018), and “Intercultural Relations and Intermarriage in Spain: Race, Ethnicity, and Culture” (The Routledge International Handbook of Interracial Relationships and Mental Health, 2025).

Professor Rodríguez-García has also given 100+ presentations at international and national conferences or workshops; organized conferences and panels; and served on conference scientific committees. Some examples include serving as the organiser and Director of the knowledge-transfer conference ‘Catalunya Barreja’: Diversity, Mixedness, and Social Cohesion, an event held in Barcelona in December 2025, that brought together scholars, representatives and policy-makers from the public administration and civil society organizations to discuss the realities of immigration, minorities, diversity, and cultural mixing in Catalonia, Spain, and which served as a platform to exchange experiences and ideas on how to build a more diverse, inclusive, and cohesive society. Other examples that stand out include the Managing Immigration and Diversity in Quebec and Canada Forum (an international conference funded by Spanish and Canadian government bodies, Barcelona, 2008); the Double Research Panel “Intermarriage, Mixedness, Integration and Social Cohesion Revisited: International Experiences and Cross-disciplinary Approaches” (11th IMISCOE Annual Conference, 2014); or the Research Panel “Visibilizing Roma in the Debate on Race and Racialization in Europe: Empirical Evidence and Policy Challenges” (21st IMISCOE Annual Conference, 2024). Recent invited lectures include: “Multiracial and Multiethnic Youth Negotiating Identity in Spain” (University of Toronto, 2018), Racial constructs and boundaries in Spain” (University of Hawai‘i, 2025), and “Race, Racialization and the Persistence of Ethnoracial Divisions in Spain” (University of Washington, 2024).