Professional Overview
My research interests include race, empire, migration, politics, voting rights, and citizenship. I am currently working on a book manuscript that explores how Puerto Ricans and later Chicanas/os mobilized through distinct organizational and political tactics to claim citizenship rights, specifically by invoking race strategically to reshape race and politics in the United States.
I am also a collaborator for the digital history project called Mapping American Social Movements that explores how social movements have influenced American life and politics in the 20th century.
Education
- 2021, Ph.D., History, University of Washington
- 2014, M.A., History, University of Washington
- 2007, M.A., American Studies, Washington State University
- 2005, B.A., American Ethnic Studies-Chicana/o Studies, University of Washington
Selected Publications
- "Democratizing Washington State's Yakima County: A History of Latina/o Voter Suppression since 1967" in We are Aztlan: Chicanx Histories in the Northern Borderland, ed. Jerry Garcia (Pullman: Washington State University Press, 2017).
- Review of Of Forests and Fields: Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest, Mario Jimenez Sifuentez, Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Vol. 105, No. 4. (2017): 199.
- "Chicano Movements: A Geographic History," in Mapping American Social Movements Through the 20th Century, Chicano/Latino Movements.
- April 2020, "A History of Latina/o Voting Rights in the Pacific Northwest", presented at Sal Castro Memorial Conference on the Emerging Historiography of the Chicano Movement, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA.
- October 2019, "Citizens with Foreign Tongues: A History of Latinx Voter Suppression in Washington State", presented at What Happens in the West Doesn't Stay in the West, Western History Association, Las Vegas, NV.
- June 2019, "Putting Chicanxs on the Map: A Digital Geographic History Project", presented at What Happens in the West Doesn't Stay in the West, Western History Association, Las Vegas, NV.