Scholarship
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“Mexican American Civil Rights in Texas: The Historiography and Promising Future”
West Texas Historical Review 99 (2023). Forthcoming.
“Foro: The Civil Rights in Black and Brown Project”
US Latina & Latino Oral History Journal 6 (2022).
“Sanctuary on the Queer Borderlands”
Southern Cultures 28, no. 3 (2022).
“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. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021.
· 2022 Oral History Association Book Award
“A Story of Hubris and Catastrophe: Continuing the American Movement West, Beyond the Pacific”
Journal of the West 60, no. 2 (2021).
“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).
· Winner of the Frederick C. Luebke Award for the best article published in the Great Plains Quarterly in 2018
“The 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).
“The Historiography of Ethnic Mexicans in Rural Texas”
Journal of South Texas 29, no. 2 (2016).
“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).
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).
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”
In Handbook of Texas. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 2013.
Book Reviews
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).
Crymble, Adam. Technology and the Historian: Transformations in the Digital Age. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2021. The Annals of Iowa 81, no. 1 (2022).
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).
Buelna, Enrique M. Chicano Communists and the Struggle for Social Justice. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2019. Southwestern Historical Quarterly 123, no. 3 (2020).
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).
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).
Rivas-Rodriguez, Maggie. Texas Mexican Americans and Postwar Civil Rights. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. Panhandle-Plains Historical Review 87 (2016).
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).
Pawel, Miriam. The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography. New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2014. Southwestern Historical Quarterly 119, no. 1 (2015).
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).
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).
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).
