Academic Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

  • “Representación, rechazo y recuerdo: linchamientos y violencia extralegal en México y Estados Unidos, décadas de 1890 a 1930” in Sonia Hernández and John Morán González (coord.), Rebrotes de violencia racial. Reflexiones críticas sobre la historia de la frontera, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, 2024.

  • “Cuando la cooperación no es suficiente. El paradigma de seguridad de América del Norte y el fracaso en proteger la seguridad ciudadana,” en Eric Hershberg y Tom Long (eds.), El regionalismo en América del Norte. ¿Estancamiento, declive o renovación?, Colegio de México, 2024.

  • “Ni monopolio ni legitimidad: los usos de la violencia extralegal en el México de la posguerra,” in Ariel Rodríguez Kuri; Violencias mexicanas, 1920-2020. Once estudios (Mexico City: Colegio de México, August 2024)

  • "When Cooperation Is Not Enough: North America's Security Paradigm and the Failure to Protect Citizens' Security," in North America: Stagnation, Decline, or Renewal? edited by Eric Hershberg and Tom Long, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press (2023). 

  • “Representation, Refusal and Remembrance: Lynching and Extralegal Violence in Mexico and the United States (1890s-1930s),” in Sonia Hernández and John Morán González (eds), Reverberations of Racial Violence: Critical Reflections on Borderlands History (University of Texas Press, 2021).

  • “‘The darkest and most shameful page in the university’s history’: Mobs, Riots, and Student Violence in 1960s-1970s Puebla,” in Jaime M. Pensado and Enrique C. Ochoa (eds.) México Beyond 1968 Revolutionaries, Radicals, and Repression During the Global Sixties and Subversive Seventies (University of Arizona Press, September 2018), pp. 215-235. 

  • “Lynching, Religion and Politics in Twentieth-Century Puebla,” in Michael Pfeifer (ed.) Global Lynching and Collective Violence. Volume II (University of Illinois Press, Fall 2017).

  • “Legitimating Lynching: Public Opinion and Extralegal Violence in Mexico,” in Gema Santamaría and David Carey Jr. (eds.) Violence and Crime in Latin America: Representations and Politics (University of Oklahoma Press, Spring 2017).

  • “Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Criminal Violence in U.S. – Latin American Relations,” in Jorge Dominguez and Rafael Fernández de Castro, Contemporary U.S. Latin American Relations: Cooperation or Conflict in the 21st Century?, Routledge, 2016.

  • “Lynching, Criminality and Racialized Subjects in Mexico,” in Luz Huertas, Bonnie Lucero, and Gregory J. Swedbert (eds.) Voices of Crime: Constructing and Contesting Social Control in Modern Latin America (University of Arizona Press, 2016).

  • “Authorizing Death: Memory Politics and States of Exception in Contemporary El Salvador” in Yifat Gutman, Amy Sodaro y Adam Brown (eds.), Memory and the Future: Transnational Politics, Ethics and Society, Palgrave-Macmillan, New York, 2010.

 

Edited Volumes

Other Book Chapters

  • “La difusión y contensión del crimen organizado en la región México-Centroamérica,” in Eric Olson and Juan Carlos Garzón (eds), The Criminal Diaspora: The Spread of Transnational Organized Crime and How to Contain its Expansion, Woodrow Wilson Center, April 2013.

  • “Political transition, Social Violence and Gangs: Cases in Central America and Mexico” with Fernandez de Castro, Rafael and Cruz, Jose Miguel; In the Wake of War:  Democratization and Internal Armed Conflict in Latin America, Washington, D.C. and Palo Alto, CA: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Stanford University Press, 2011.