Research

My research focuses on the intersection of anticolonial politics and development in the second half of the twentieth century.

Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico

My first book, Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century Mexico (Stanford University Press, August 2021), uses the experience of the southern Mexican state as a case study to examine the contested history of indigenous development in the Americas.

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Chapters

“Mexico’s Turn Toward the Third World: Rural Development under President Luis Echeverría,” in México Beyond 1968: Revolutionaries, Radicals, and Repression During the Global Sixties and Subversive Seventies, ed. Jaime M. Pensado and Enrique C. Ochoa (Tucson, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 2018), 113-133.

"Indigenismo Occupied: Indigenous Youth and Mexico’s Democratic Opening (1968-1975)” The Americas, Vol. 72, No. 4 (October 2015): 549-582.*

*Awarded the Antonine Tibesar Prize for most distinguished article published in The Americas by the Conference on Latin American History.

Este articulo ha sido traducido y publicado en una revista mexicana de ciencias sociales, Cuadernos del Sur. Para quienes prefieren leerlo en español, se encuentra aquí.

Articles

“Mexico’s Classroom Wars,” with René González Pizarro, Jacobin, June 24, 2016

Book Reviews

Review of Kevin A. Young, ed. Making the Revolution: Histories of the Latin American Left. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews, April 2020.

Review of Vania Markarian. Uruguay, 1968: Student Activism from Global Counterculture to Molotov Cocktails. Contemporánea Año 8, Vol. 8 (2017): 190-191.

“State Projects and Indigenous Mobilization in Late Twentieth Century Mexico,” A Review of María L.O. Muñoz. Stand Up and Fight: Participatory Indigenismo, Populism, and Mobilization in Mexico, 1970-1984. Estudos Ibero-Americanos Vol. 43, No. 1 (January-April 2017): 139-141.

Review of Elsie Rockwell. Hacer Escuela, Hacer Estado: La educación posrevolucionaria vista desde Tlaxcala and Andrae M. Marak. From Many, One: Indians, Peasants, Borders, and Education in Callista Mexico, 1924-1935, Paedagogica Historica Vol. 47, No. 3 (June 2011): 449-453.

Review of John Gledhill and Patience A. Schell, eds. New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico (Durham: Duke University Press, 2012). History: Reviews of New Books Vol. 41, No. 3 (2013): 112.

My research has been funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies, the Inter-American Foundation, the National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Smithsonian Institution.