Education
Ph.D., Latin American Studies, History and Political Science, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, 2000 M.A., Political Science, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 1995 B.A., Political Science, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI 1993
Publications
-Gendering the Periphery of the Empires: The Tohono O'odham, Gender and Assimilation, 1880-1934, with Laura Tuennerman, University of Arizona Press, forthcoming 2013. -Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine: Historical Perspectives on Contraband and Vice in North America’s Borderlands, edited with Elaine Carey, University of Arizona Press, 2011. -From Many, One: Indians, Peasants, Borders, and Education in Callista Mexico (1924-1935), University of Calgary Press, 2009, Christon Archer, series editor. -“New Approaches to Transnational Crime and the Law,” Homeland Security Review: A Journal for the Institute of Law and Public Policy, forthcoming. -Homeland Security Review: A Journal for the Institute of Law and Public Policy, a special issue on Transnational Crime, the Law, and Public Policy, edited with Michael Hummel. -“Introduction: Transnational Flows of Contraband and Vice in North America,” with Elaine Carey, in Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine: Historical Perspectives on Contraband and Vice in North America’s Borderlands, University of Arizona Press, 2011. -“Official Government Discourses about Vice and Deviance: the Early 20th Century Tohono O’odham,” with Laura Tuennerman, in Smugglers, Brothels, and Twine: Historical Perspectives on Contraband and Vice in North America’s Borderlands, University of Arizona Press, 2011. - “Explaining Oil Nationalization in Latin America: Economics and Political Ideology,” with Scott Morgenstern and Ruben Berrios, Review of InternationalPolitical Economy, Volume 18, Issue 5, December 2011. -“Los vicios trasnacionales de los Tohono o´odham a principios del siglo XX,” with Laura Tuennerman, in En la encrucijada. Historia, marginalidad y delito en América Latina y los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, siglos XIX y XX, University of Guadalajara, 2010, Jorge Alberto Truillo Bretón, editor. -“Frontier Masculinity, Femininity, and the Ideological Cleansing of Borderlands Teachers, 1924-1935,” New Mexico Historical Review, 85:2 (Spring 2010), 155-178. -“Forging Identity: Mexican Federal Frontier Schools, 1924-1935,” New Mexico Historical Review 80:2 (Spring 2005), 163-88. -“Federalization of Education in Chihuahua,” Paedagogica Historica 41:3 (June 2005), 357-75. -“The Failed Assimilation of the Tarahumara in Postrevolutionary Mexico,” Journal of the Southwest 45:3 (Autumn 2003), 411-35. -World History Bulletin 27:3 (Fall 2011), special issue on Transnational Crime in World History, edited with Elaine Carey. -“The Urbanization of the Tohono O’odham: Using Vice, Crime, and Sexuality to Explore Cultural Interaction and Assimilation,” in World History Bulletin 27:3 (Fall 2011), with Laura Tuennerman. -Proceedings of the Annual Intersections: Undergraduate Research Conference, edited with Philip J. Harold and Monica M. VanDieren (Spring 2010 and 2011). -“Historica política de México en los años veinte: petróleo, ejército y educación: Consulta de los archivos Calles-Torreblanca por académicos de la Universidad de Nuevo México,” with Linda B. Hall, Robert Carriedo, and Joseph Lenti, in Plutarco Elías Calles y Fernando Torreblanca: Un ejemplo de la importancia de los archivos privados en la historiografía de México, Fideicomiso Archivos Plutarco Elías Calles y Fernando Torreblanca, 2009, Norma Mereles de Ogarrio, editor. -Journal of the West 48:3 (Summer 2009), special issue on American Indians and the Borderlands of the West, edited with Laura Tuennerman. -“Introduction: American Indians and the Borderlands of the West,” in Journal of the West 48:3 (Summer 2009), 9-11, with Laura Tuennerman. -“’He Don’t Show Us Much About Farming’: Tohono O’odham Agency and Agricultural Priorities, 1910-1940,” in Journal of the West 48:3 (Summer 2009), 20-25, with Laura Tuennerman. -“Engagement or Isolation: Latin America’s Populist Left and the United States,” Harvard International Review, commentary, with Scott Morgenstern, November 2, 2006, http://hir.harvard.edu/articles/1461/ -“Pancho Villa: The Twice-Made Bandit,” in Negotiation and Conflict: Essays in United States and Mexican History, Kathleen P. Chamberlain and Jonathan Ablard, eds., Occasional Papers, University of New Mexico, Center for the American West, No. 14, 1999.
Honors
-Heritage Fund Welcoming Community Grant, “Threads of Our Diversity,” Bartholomew County, 2012 -PRAC Grant, “IUPUC General Education Initiative,” IUPUI, 2011, -Grant Writers Fellow, Cal U, 2010 -Presidential Gala Faculty Award for Research, Cal U, 2010 -Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) Faculty Professional Development Council (FPDC) Annual Research Grant: Gendering the Periphery of Empires: The Tohono O’odham and the American Borderlands, 1880-1934, 2009. -PASSHE Diversity and Equity Grant, “The Other Side of Beauty: Impact on a Woman’s Sense of Self,” 2007-08 -FPDC Travel Grants, 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2010 -FPDC Research Merit Award, Cal U, 2006 -FPDC Continuing Excellence Fund (Small Grant), Cal U, 2006, 2007, & 2008 -PASSHE, Diversity and Equity Grant, “Women at Risk: Life in the Global Village,” 2005-06 -FPDC Small Grant, Cal U, 2005 -FPDC Irene O’Brien Grant, Cal U, 2005 and 2010 -Fulbright-Robles-García Dissertation Fellowship, United States Information Agency and Mexican Government, 1999 to 2000 -Latin American and Iberian Institute, Ph.D. Fellowship, University of New Mexico, 1998 to 1999 -Field Research Grant, Latin American and Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico, 1998 to 1999 -Research, Project, and Travel Grant, Office of Graduate Studies, University of New Mexico, 1998 to 1999 -Conference Travel Grant, Latin American and Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico, 1997
Presentations
-“The Narco-Empire: Violence and Resistance in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region,” Commentator, American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Fall 2012 -“Mexico as a Counter Example: Gendering the Periphery of Empire,” Midwest World History Association, Grant Rapids, MI, Summer 2012 -“Incorporating ‘Borderlands’ and ‘Transnational’ Themes into World History Survey Courses,” Roundtable, Midwest World History Association, Grand Rapids, MI, Summer 2012 -“Indigenismo in the Hands of Native and Non-Native Transnational Moral Entrepreneurs: The Seri, Tohono O'odham, and Tarahumara,” Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, Spring 2012 -“Drugs, Gambling, and Sex: Interrogating the Connections Between the Licit and Illicit,” Roundtable, International Studies Association, Spring 2012 -“Harmony After Discord: Anglo Indigenistas among the Seris in Post- Revolutionary Mexico,” 2011 Midwest World History Association Conference, Milwaukee, WI, Fall 2011 -“Baseball, Masculinity, Cultural Imperialism, and the Carranza Propaganda Machine,” 6th Annual Audrey-Beth Fitch Conference, California, PA, Spring 2011 -“U.S. Assimilation or Mexican Indigenismo?: The Seri and Their Anglo Benefactors,” Mid-Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies, Pittsburgh, PA, Spring 2011 -“Yankee Indigenismo: The Seri, SEP, and BIA,” XIII Encuentro de Historiadores de México, Estados Unidos, y Canadá, Queretaro, Mexico, Fall 2010 -“Transnational Indigenismo and the Seri Indians in the 1920s,” Western Historical Association, Lake Tahoe, NV, Fall 2010 -“The Double Game: Anti-Vice Moralizing While Supporting Whiskey and Narcotics Contraband in Ciudad Juarez, 1929-1934,” Western History Association, Denver, CO, Fall 2009 -“Brothers in Crime: The Fernandez and Quevedo Brothers as Perpetrators of Violence Against Women and the Poor,” 53rd International Conference of Americanistas, Mexico City, Summer 2009 -“The Inadvertent Adoption of BIA Policies by the SEP,” Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, NM, Spring 2009 -“The Mexican Education Ministry’s Anti-Alcohol Campaign in Transnational Ciudad Juárez-El Paso, 1929-1934,” American Historical Association Conference, New York, NY, Spring 2009 -“The Double Game: Anti-Vice Moralizing While Supporting Whiskey and Narcotics Contraband in Ciudad Juarez, 1929-1934,” Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies, Flagstaff, AZ, Spring 2008 -“Civil Marriage and Tohono O’odham Women Between Worlds,” American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., Spring 2008 (co-author) -“The Mormons and Mennonites as Cultural Role Models in Post-Revolutionary Mexico,” Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Richmond, VA, Fall 2007 -“Traditional not Revolutionary: Field Matrons and the Tohono O’odham,” 16th Annual World Historical Association Conference, Milwaukee, WI, Summer 2007 (co-author) -“The Other Cristero War: Calles and Anti-Catholic Education in Sonora, 1924-1935,” American Catholic Historical Association Meeting, Milwaukee, WI, Spring 2007 -“Better Morals Make Better Maids: Tohono O’odham Women Between Worlds,” Women and Work, 2nd Annual Audrey-Beth Fitch Conference on Women’s Studies, California, PA, Spring 2007 (co-author) -“An Army of Davids: Blogs and the Casey Santorum Senate Race,” Northeast Political Science Association, Boston, MA, Fall 2006 (co-author) -“Tohono O’odham: Using the U.S.-Mexican Border as Leverage,” XII Conference of Mexican, United States, and Canadian Historians, Vancouver, British Columbia, Fall 2006 -“Misery in the Magnolia State: Media Coverage of Hurricane Katrina’s Impact on Mississippi,” American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, Spring 2006 (co-author) -“Education, Masculinity, and Femininity along the U.S.-Mexican Border, 1924-1935,” Women at Risk: Life in the Global Village Conference, California, PA, Spring 2006 -“God, Gore, and Science: The Coverage of Hurricane Katrina,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Spring 2006 (co-author) -“The Seri Indians, SEP, Indigenismo and Exploitation,” Latin American Studies Association Meeting, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Spring 2006 -“The Construction of Masculine and Feminine Teachers along the U.S.-Mexican Border, 1924-1935,” The Third International Colloquium on the History of Women and Gender in Mexico, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, Fall 2005 -“The Adaptive Resistance of Native Peoples in Northern Mexico in Post-Revolutionary Mexico,” Cultures in Conflict Conference, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, Spring 2005 -“The Acculturation of the Seri Indians, 1924-1935,” North Central Conference of Latin American Studies, Platteville, WI, Fall 2003 -“The Mexican Kickapoo Indians: Resistance to Educational Assimilation,” North Central Conference of Latin American Studies, Indianola, IA, Fall 2002 -“Baseball Stereotypes and the Carranza Propaganda Machine,” Conference of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico, Spring 2000 -“Baseball, Carranza, and Imperialism,” Rocky Mountain Conference of Latin American Studies, Missoula, MO, Fall 1999 -“Pancho Villa: The Twice-Made Bandit,” Rocky Mountain Conference of Latin American Studies, San Diego, CA, Fall 1998
Research
U.S.-Mexico and U.S. Canada Borderlands Modern Mexico Transnational Crime Latin American Politics Sino-Latin American Trade Native American
Service
-Contributing Editor, The Middle Ground Journal, 2012 to Present -Midwest World History Association (MWWHA) Executive Board, 2012 to Present -Oral History Workshop: The Interview, Organizer and Presenter, Columbus, IN, Summer 2012 -Laws Award Committee, Columbus Human Rights Commission, Columbus, IN, Spring 2012 -Promotion and Tenure Workshop, Panel Member, IUPUC, Spring 2012 -Judge, 2012 Benjamin M. King Essay contest, Columbus, IN, Spring 2012 -Committee on Undergraduate and K-12 Outreach, The Middle Ground Journal, 2012 to Present -Diversity Strategies Committee, IUPUC, Spring 2012 -Black History Month Planning Committee, IUPUC, Spring 2012 -Co-Coordinator [with Bob Pittman] of Great Decisions Columbus, Spring 2012 -Advisor, Student Veterans and Military Association, IUPUC, 2011 to 2012 -Promotion and Tenure Committee, IUPUI, 2011 to 2012 -Human Rights Commission, Columbus, Indiana, 2011 to 2012 -President, Bartholomew County Historical Society, 2011 to 2012 -Latin American Studies Association, Mexico Section, Social Science Book Prize Committee, 2011 to 2012 -Grievance Board, IUPUC, 2011 to 2012 -Assurance of Learning Committee, IUPUC, 2011 to 2012 -Search Committee, Special Assistant to the Vice Chancellor and Dean, 2011 -Editorial Advisory Board, Journal of the West, 2010 to 2011 -Grant Reviewer, PASSHE FPDC, 2009 to 2011 -Co-Director (with Mark Aune, Philip Harold, and Monica VanDieren), Intersections 2011: Undergraduate Research Conference, California University of PA, April 2011. -Quality Circle Grant Reviewer, 2010 to 2011 -Sabbatical Committee, 2010 to 2011 -Latin American Studies Association, Mexico Section, Humanities Book Prize Committee, 2009 to 2010 -Co-Director (with Philip Harold and Monica VanDieren), Intersections 2010: Undergraduate Research Conference, Robert Morris University, April 2010 -International Experiences Committee, Cal U, 2009 to 2011 -Cal U Fulbright Committee, 2010 to 2011 -Outcomes Assessment, History and Political Science Department, 2005 to 2010 -Delegate, Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculty (APSCUF), 2009 to 2011 -Central Labor Council, APSCUF, 2006 to 2008 -Legislative Committee, APSCUF, 2006 to 2011 Chair, 2006 to 2007 -Safe Zone (GLBTQ), 2005 to 2011 -General Education Committee, 2004 to 2008 Vice Chair, 2006 to 2007 -Frederick Douglass Institute, 2004 to 2011 Library Sub-Committee, 2005 to 2008 Visiting Scholar Search Committee, 2007 to 2008 & 2010 to 2011 -Co-Chair, Outcomes Assessment and 5-year Review, Faculty Professional Development Committee, 2005 to 2006 -Chair, Search Committee, Honors Composition Postdoc, 2010 to 2011 -Chair, Search Committee, African-American History, 2005 to 2006 -Chair, Search Committee, Ancient/Medieval History, 2005 to 2006 -Search Committee, Assistant Director of Honors, 2008 to 2009 -Cal U in the High School, Advisor and Evaluator, 2005 to 2010 Director, History and Political Science Department, 2007 to 2010 -Faculty Advisor, Peace Studies Club, 2008 to 2011 -Faculty Advisor, Cal U History Club, 2006 -Faculty Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta, 2005 to 2006 -Veterans History Project for the Library of Congress, Adventures of the American Mind, 2006 to 2011 -Women’s Studies Program, 5-year Review, Internal Reviewer, 2008 -Office for Students with Disabilities, 5-year Review, Internal Reviewer, 2009
Professional Memberships
Latin American Studies Association American Historical Association World History Association Midwest World History Association
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