American Studies at Yale University Wed, 11/20/2019 - 3:30pm 101 LeConte Hall Iliana (Yami) Rodriquez is a doctoral candidate in American Studies at Yale University. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on Latinx history, migration, culture, and labor within the southern United States. This academic year she is a predoctoral fellow at Emory's James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference, where she is completing her dissertation, "Constructing Mexican Atlanta, 1980-2016."