Faculty Research
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Get a taste of the diverse topics studied by our Latino and Latin American Studies faculty
Our Latino and Latin American Studies faculty conduct research on a wide variety of topics at home and abroad. Below you can get a taste of some of the publications and other scholarly content they've produced. If you see something that interests you, it's worth reaching out to that faculty member to see if you can assist with future research or take a class from them on your area of interest.
Jason Dormady
Dormady, J. (2025). Conflict and Correspondence: Belonging and Urban Community in Guadalajara, Mexico, 1939 - 1947. University of Nebraska Press.
Dormady, J. (2022). Plieto y Piedad: Clerical / Parishioner Conflict in Rural Morelos. In D.R. Plasencia & D. Dalton (Eds.) Imagining Latinidad: Digital Diasporas and Public Engagement Among Latin American Migrants. Brill.
Dormady, J. (2020). God, Cleanliness, and the City: Local Uses of Hygiene and Anticlerical Language in Religious Conflict - Guadalajara, Mexico 1939 to 1942. The Latin Americanist, 64(4), 393-422.
Dormady, J. & Tamez, D. (2015). Just South of Zion: The Mormons in Mexico and Its Borderlands. University of New Mexico Press.
Dormady, J. (2011). Primitive Revolution: Restorationalist Religion and the Idea of the Mexican Revolution. University of New Mexico Press.
Josué Estrada
Estrada, J. (2025). Latina/o Voter Denial and Dilution in Yakima County, 1960-2024. Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 114(4), 120-140.
Estrada, J. (2023). Latinx Voting Rights Movement. Washington State Latinx History, Washington Ethnic Studies Now. https://waethnicstudies.com/product/washington-state-latinx-history-unit/.
Estrada, J. (2022). Totality of the Circumstances Analysis Under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, Soto Palmer, et al., v. Hobbs, et al. No.: 3:22-cv-5035 (U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington).
Estrada, J. (2017). Democratizing Washington State’s Yakima County: A History of Latino/a Voter Suppression since 1967. In J. Garcia (Ed.) We Are Aztlan: Chicanx Histories in the Northern Borderlands. Washington State University Press.
Nicole Jastremski
Jastremski, N., Henebry-DeLeon, L., Lubinski, P. M., & Klyve, D. (2021). Highland vs. lowland craniometry in Andean South America: an Ecuadorian case study. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 35.
Jastremski, N. & Sánchez-Polo, A. (2021). Human skeletal remains recovered from a Napo funerary urn in the Ecuadorian Amazon: a taphonomic and mortuary assessment. Bioarchaeology International, 5, 143-156.
Graber, Y. & Jastremski, N. (2009). Étude d’une tombe collective de l’epoque Manteño (Salango, Equatuer) dans son contexte, culturel et funéraire, regional. Antropo, 18, 9-25.
Claudia Méndez Wright
Sterling D. Quinn
da Silva, R. G. P., Lima, C. L., Quinn, S. D., Afelt, A., Laques, A. E., & Saito, C. H. (2023). Urban Green Spaces in Brazil: Challenges and Opportunities in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Studia Ecologia et Bioethicae, 21(1), 69-88.
Quinn, S. D., & Condon, D. (2022). Inclusion of Latino-oriented local businesses in popular online maps: An empirical study in the Inland Northwest of the United States. The Journal of Community Informatics, 18(2), 84-114.
Quinn, S. D. (2020). Free and open source GIS in South America: political inroads and local advocacy. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 34(3), 464-483.
John Ribó
Joos, V., Munro, M., & Ribó, J. (2023). The Power of the Story: Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean. Berghahn Books.
Ribó, J. (2023). Wake Work in Post-Maria Puerto Rico and Beyond. In V. Joos, M. Munro, & J. Ribó (eds.), The Power of the Story: Writing Disasters in Haiti and the Circum-Caribbean (pp. 120-134). Berghahn Books.
Ribó, J. (2021). The Challenge of Vilém Flusser: Latinidad and Its Others. In A. Jaffe, R. Martini, & M. F. Miller (eds.), Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism (pp. 190-197). Bloomsbury Press.
Ribó, J. (2021). Neither Strangers nor Friends: Transnational Hispaniola and the Uneven Untimacies of The Farming of Bones. In J. Braziel & N. Clitandre (eds.) Bloomsbury Handbook to Edwidge Danticat (pp. 389-404). Bloomsbury Press.
Ribó, J. (2021). Other Possible Worlds: Hispaniola and the Speculative. ASAP/Journal, 6(2), 294-298.
Christina Torres García
Torres García, C. (2023). Chicana Feminist Epistemology in Higher Education. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Education. Oxford University Press.
Torres García, C. (2022). DACAmented Latina Students’ Testimonios About Their Educational Journey Against the Backdrop of Racist Nativist Discourse in Washington State. Journal of Latinos and Education, 23(4), 1276-1288.
Torres García, C., Bañuelos, L., Coronado, A., & Garcia, C. (2022). “I feel I matter a little less to the school”: Implications of Covid 19 pandemic through the lens of Latinx, low-income, and first-generation students in Washington State. Opportunity Matters: Journal of Access and Opportunity in Education, 36.
Mexico-Canada Agreement and the War on Drugs. Academia Journals, 14(2).
Astrid Vidalon
Vidalon, A. (2022). Reflections on Peruvian Textile traditions: A living heritage exhibit. Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty, 13(1), 89-118.
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