Publications
- “Colonial Care: Medicalizing Latino/a Bodies in the United States, 1894-1970s,” Healthcare in Latin America: History, Society, Culture, edited by David S. Dalton and Douglas J. Weatherford. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, forthcoming.
- Power and Control in the Imperial Valley: Nature, Agribusiness, and Workers on the California Borderland, 1900-1940 Connecting the Greater West Series (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2015). Published in paperback April 2016
- “Invisible Borders: Repatriation and Colonization of Mexican Migrant Workers along the California Borderlands during the 1930s,” California History 88, no. 4 (September 2011): 5-21, 63-65.
- “‘I Am Almost More at Home with Brown Faces than with White’: An Americanization Teacher in Imperial Valley, California, 1923-1924,” Southern California Quarterly 93, no. 1 (Spring 2011): 69-107.
- “Chicano/a movement,” in Kathleen A. Brosnan, ed., Encyclopedia of American Environmental History vol. 1 (New York: Facts on File, 2011): 268-270.
- “Chacón, Soledad Chávez (1890-1936),” in Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez Korrol, eds., Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia vol. 1 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006): 143-144.
- “Mendoza, María Estela Altamirano (1948-),” in Vicki L. Ruiz and Virginia Sánchez Korrol, eds., Latinas in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia vol. 2 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006): 448-449.
- “La Plaza Vieja (Old Town Alburquerque): The Transformation of a Hispano Village, 1880s-1950s,” in Erlinda Gonzales-Berry and David R. Maciel, eds., The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2000): 239-268.
Research Interests
Latinx History; U.S.-Mexico Borderlands; 20th century U.S. West; Environmental History; Labor History; Food Studies
Courses Taught
- Latino History Since 1900
- History of the American West
- U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Since 1900
- US Food History Since Colonial Era
- Graduate seminar U.S. History Since 1865
- Survey U.S. History Since 1865
- Immigration & Americanization during the Progressive Era
- Environmental Justice in the U.S. & Latin America
Education:
Ph.D. University of New Mexico, 2003
Current Projects:
My new book project is Indispensable River: La Compañía de Terrenos y Aguas de la Baja California Shaping the Lower Colorado River Region, 1895-1962. I am also working on 2 articles: “Border Jumpers: Prosecuting Citizens for Illegally Entering the U.S. from Mexico, 1924-1932” and “Legally Poisoned: Tucson’s Groundwater Contamination, Environmental Injustice and Neighborhood Empowerment, 1950-Present”