“‘I Love How We Developed a Community Already’: A Graduate Student Orientation Model
for Minority-Serving Programs and Institutions,” Association of Mexican American Educators Journal 14:3 (December 2020): 47-60.
"’Doing the Impossible’: Tracing Mexican Women’s Experiences in Americanization Curricula,
1915-1920.” California History 93:4 (Winter 2016): 20-41."
“School Smarts: A Reflection of Pedagogical and Personal Insights.” Journal of Latinos and Education 13:3 (June 2014): 212 – 221.
“Domestic Dramas: Mexican American Music as an Archive of Immigrant Women’s Experiences,
1930 – 1950.” Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies 37:1 (Spring 2012): 7 – 35.
“Of Chicharrones and Clam Chowder: Gender and Consumption in Jorge Ulica’s ‘Crónicas Diabólicas.’” Bilingual Review XXIX:1 (January – April 2008-2009): 49 – 65.
Book Chapters
“Relief and Resistance: Student Emotions in a Majority-Minority Ethnic Studies Classroom.”
Teaching with Tension: Race, Resistance, and Reality in the Classroom, Ed. Philathia Bolton, Cassander Smith, and Lee Bebout (forthcoming in 2018 from
Northwestern University Press).
“Snapshots: Case Studies in Action: Ana Castillo.” Latina/o Literature in the Classroom: 21st Century Approaches to Teaching. Ed. Frederick Aldama. New York: Routledge, 2015. 249 – 254.
“Hottentot 2000: Jennifer Lopez and Her Butt.” Sexualities in History: A Reader. Ed. Kim M. Phillips and Barry Reay. London: Routledge Press, 2001. 407 – 417.
Public Scholarship
With Alicia Garcia, "Supporting Latinx Scholars with Academic Ninos," op-ed on how first-generation Latinx graduate students and faculty help each other
navigate higher ed for Inside Higher Ed, 14 June 2018.
"Teaching and Learning on the Front Lines," commentary on teaching Latinx and undocumented students in the current political
era for Diverse Issues in Higher Education, 10 April 2018.
With Shelley Lee, “Renewing Alliances in Troubled Times,” op-ed op-ed on the need to understand student demands’ for safe space in higher
education for Inside Higher Ed, 25 August 2016.
Entre Guadalupe y Malinche: Tejanas in Literature and Art, edited by Inés Hernández-Ávila and Norma Elia Cantú, Revista Camino Real 8:12 (2017), 235-236.
A World Not to Come: A History of Latino Writing and Print Culture, by Raul Coronado, Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies 39:2 (Fall 2014): 201-205.
Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community, by Monica Perales, Women's Studies 40:8 (November 2011): 116-1119.
Dangerous Curves: Latina Bodies in the Media, by Isabel Molina Guzman, Revista Camino Real 2:3 (2010): 182-184.
Recent Refereed Conference Papers
May 2019. “Building a Culturally-Sustaining and Academically-Affirming Student Leadership
Retreat for Latinx Undergraduates Through Conocimiento, Confianza, and Cariño,” National
Conference on Race and Ethnicity, Portland, OR.
April 2019. “Enhancing University Student Success through a Chicanx/Latinx Student
Success Center: Insights from a Research-Based Model of Student Engagement,” SJSU
Student Success Symposium, San José, CA.
July 2018. “How to Teach an Intro to Latinx Studies Course,” Latinx Studies Association,
Washington, D.C.
March 2018. “Conocimiento, Confianza, and Cariño: Building a Culturally-Resonant Academic
Latinx Student Community,” American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education,
Irvine, CA.
April 2017. “Teaching and Learning on the Front Lines,” Southwestern Anthropological
Association, San Jose, CA.
October 2016, “Developing an Academic Resilience Workshop,” CSU Teaching and Learning
Conference, San Jose State University.
July 2016, “Latina/o Studies: ‘Un-Disciplined’ Support for First-Generation Students,”
Latino Studies Association, Pasadena, CA.