“Wreathed in Worry, Pining for Protection: Latino Forestry Workers and Historical Traumas in Maine,” Journal of American History (March 2023)

“People in Cold Storage: The Cruel Limbos of Historical and Current Detainees in the United States,” Review of Elliott Young's Forever Prisoners: How the United States Made the World’s Largest Immigration Detention System for Reviews in American History (June 2022)

“Find Your Stride: 7 Lessons Running Taught Me,” Breathe Magazine, UK, Issue 45 (Feb. 2022)

“The Career of Chef Zarela Martinez and a Changing Mexican Foodscape in New York City, 1981-2011” for Food, Culture & Society (Dec. 2021)

Book review, Julie C. Keller, Milking in the Shadows: Migrants and Mobility in America’s Dairyland for H-Environment (July 2021)

"The History Of Mexican Food In New York," Gotham Center for New York City History, 1 July 2021

Book review, A.K. Sandoval-Strausz, Barrio America: How Latino Immigrants Saved the American City for Journal of Social History

“Farmworkers Are Essential, But Their Rights Don’t Reflect That,” Food52, April 2020

“How the United Farm Workers Gan Regain Their Influence,” The Washington Post, September 2018

"Dutch Plan to Target Youth in Designer Clothes is Dangerous Throwback to the Persecution of Zoot Suiters," Public Seminar, February 2018

"Our Thanksgiving Meals Are Eaten, But the Fight for Farm Workers' Rights Is Still on the Table," Immigration and Ethnic History Society, December 2017

“The Future of Latino San Francisco As Seen Through Murals,” BOOM: A Journal of California, Winter 2016

*Translated into German for the book Technopolis, (Assoziation A, Berlin, 2019)

"Legal Loopholes Put the Lives of Migrant Workers at Risk," Op-Ed, Detroit Free Press, November 2015

"Why Everyone Should Travel Solo At Least Once," The -M- Dash, October 2015

“A Town Full of Dead Mexicans: The Salinas Valley Bracero Tragedy of 1963, A Collision of Communities, and the End of the Bracero Program,” Western Historical Quarterly, Summer 2013

*Winner of the Judith Lee Ridge Prize of the Western Association of Women Historians

“An Unladylike Strike Fashionably Clothed: Mexican American and Anglo Women Garment Workers Against Tex Son, 1959-1963,” Pacific Historical Review, August 2009

*Winner of the Western History Association Jensen-Miller Prize

*Winner of the Pacific Coast Branch-American Historical Association W. Turrentine Jackson Prize

“A Community of Limits and the Limits of Community: MALDEF’s Chicana Rights Project, Empowering the ‘Typical Chicana’ and the Question of Civil Rights,” Journal of American Ethnic History, Spring 2008