Books
Claiming Freedom and Community: Mexican Movements and Uprisings in the American Heartland. (Book Manuscript in Progress).
Llanera/os: The Mexican American and Central American Southern Plains since 1880. Edited by Joel Zapata, Aimee Villareal, and Alex Hunt. (Book Manuscript in Progress).
The Erased Homeland: Mexicans’ Long Past and Future at the Center of America (Under Contract, University of Nebraska Press).
Los Llaneros: The Ethnic Mexican Southern Plains, 1540-1900. Edited by Joel Zapata, Alex Hunt, Andrew Reynolds, and John Beusterien. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2026.
Articles and Chapters
“Controlling Water; Controlling the Llano: Water, Violence, War, and Settler Colonialism on the Nineteenth-Century Llano Estacado.” In Water on the Llano Estacado: Perspectives on the Ogallala Aquifer and the Southern High Plains, edited by Britta Anderson and John Beusterien. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2026. (In Press)
“Pathways in Oral History: Erlinda Gonzales-Berry.” US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal 10 (2026): 132-138. With Erlinda Gonzales-Berry. (In Press).
“Introduction: The Forgotten Llano and its People.” In Los Llaneros: The Ethnic Mexican Southern Plains, 1540-1900. Edited by Joel Zapata, Alex Hunt, Andrew Reynolds, and John Beusterien. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2026.
“From the Shadows of Coronado to the Ruins of the Red River War: The Longue Durée of Great Plains Art and Mexican People, 1540-1900” In Los Llaneros: The Ethnic Mexican Southern Plains, 1540-1900. Edited by Joel Zapata, Alex Hunt, Andrew Reynolds, and John Beusterien. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2026.
“Queer Sanctuary on the Borderlands.” Southern Cultures 28, no. 3 (2022). 66-73.
“Foro: The Civil Rights in Black and Brown Project.” US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal 6 (2022): 104-112. With Stephen Pitti, Max Krochmal, Sandra Enríquez, and Katherine Bynum.
“Mexican American Civil Rights in Texas: The Historiography and Promising Future,”West Texas Historical Review 98 (2022): 22-40.
“The South-by-Southwest Borderlands’ Chicana/o Uprising: The Brown Berets, Black and Brown Alliances, and the Fight Against Police Brutality in West Texas.” In Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Oral Histories of the Liberation Struggles in Texas, edited by Max Krochmal and J. Todd Moye, 93-114. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021. *2022 Oral History Association Book Award for Civil Rights in Black and Brown*
“A Story of Hubris and Catastrophe: Continuing the American Movement West, Beyond the Pacific.” Journal of the West 60, no. 2 (2021): 3-8.
Taking Chicana/o Activist History to the Public: Chicana/o Activism in the Southern Plains Through Time and Space.” Great Plains Quarterly 38, no. 4 (2018): 407-424. *Frederick C. Luebke Award for best article published in Great Plains Quarterly in 2018*
“Palo Duro Canyon, Its People, and Their Landscapes: Building Culture(s) and a Sense of Place Through the Environment since 1540.” In “Palo Duro Canyon: Environmental Histories,” edited by Dan Flores. Special issue, Panhandle-Plains Historical Review 87 (2016): 9-38.
“The Historiography of Ethnic Mexicans in Rural Texas.” Journal of South Texas 29, no. 2 (2016): 84-91.
“Women’s Grassroots Revitalization of South El Paso: La Mujer Obrera’s Challenge to Gentrification and Urban Neglect.” Río Bravo: A Journal of the Borderlands 23, no. 1 (2014): 42-67.
Conference Proceedings
“The Long-Term Ethnic Mexican Sense of Place on the Llano in Song, Folklore, and Literature.” In Proceedings of the Southern Plains Conference: Shaping a Sense of Place, edited by Alex Hunt (Canyon: Center for the Study of the American West Publications, West Texas A&M University, 2018): 13-19.
Encyclopedia and Reference Articles
“Chicano” in Thompson, Sherwood, ed. Encyclopedia of Diversity and Social Justice. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, 2014.
“La Mujer Obrera of El Paso.” Handbook of Texas. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2013.
Book Reviews
Rodríguez, Sarah K. M. One National Family: Texas, Mexico, and the Making of the Modern United States, 1820–1867. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2024. Southwestern Historical Quarterly 129, no. 1 (2025): 135-136.
Blackshear, James Bailey, and Glen Sample Ely. Confederates and Comancheros: Skullduggery and Double-Dealing in the Texas–New Mexico Borderlands. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2021. New Mexico Historical Review 99, no. 3 (2024): 98-99.
Fernández-Jones, Delia. Making the MexiRican City: Migration, Placemaking, and Activism in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Urbana, Chicago, Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2023. Western Historical Quarterly 55, no. 2 (2024): 151–152.
Abbott, Carl. Portland in Three Centuries: The Place and the People. 2nd ed. Corvallis: Oregon State University Press, 2022. Oregon Historical Quarterly 124, no. 1 (2023): 100-102.
Crymble, Adam. Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age. Urbana, Chicago, Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2021. The Annals of Iowa 81, no. 1 (2022): 77-78.
Guerrero, Perla M. Nuevo South. Latinas/os, Asians, and the Remaking of Place. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2017. Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 46, no. 1 (2021): 305-309.
Buelna, Enrique M. Chicano Communists and the Struggle for Social Justice. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2019. Southwestern Historical Quarterly 123, no. 3 (2020): 382-383.
Weber, John. From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Southwestern Historical Quarterly 121, no. 3 (2018): 354-355.
Blackshear, James Bailey. Fort Bascom: Soldiers, Comancheros, and Indians in the Canadian River Valley. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2016. Panhandle-Plains Historical Review 88 (2017): 77-78.
Rivas-Rodriguez, Maggie. Texas Mexican Americans and Postwar Civil Rights. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. Panhandle-Plains Historical Review 87 (2016): 122-123.
Peña Delgado, Grace. Making the Chinese Mexican: Global Migration, Localism, and Exclusion in the U.S.-Mexico Borderland. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012. Regeneración Tlacuilolli: UCLA Raza Studies Journal 2, no. 1 (2016): 81-83.
Pawel, Miriam. The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2014. Southwestern Historical Quarterly 119, no. 1 (2015): 95-96.
Weise, Julie. Corazón de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South Since 1910. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. Journal of Mississippi History 71, no. 4 (2015): 232-324.
Miller, Char. On The Edge: Water, Immigration, and Politics in the Southwest. San Antonio, TX: Trinity University Press, 2013. Panhandle-Plains Historical Review 88 (2014): 131-133.
Summers Sandoval, Tomás F., Jr. Latinos at the Golden Gate: Creating Community and Identity in San Francisco. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013. Regeneración Tlacuilolli: UCLA Raza Studies Journal 1, no. 1 (2014): 167-169.