EDUCATION

Ph.D. Borderlands History (ABD)
May 2024 (expected)
University of Texas at El Paso, Department of History
Major Fields: Borderlands, Latin America

M.S. Professional Science & Geospatial Information Science
December 2018
University of Texas at El Paso, College of Science

M.A. History 
August 2016
University of Texas at El Paso, Department of History
Concentration in Public History

B.A. Anthropology & History
May 2014
University of Texas at El Paso
Summa Cum Laude

EXPERIENCE

2021-Present
Educational Outreach Manager
UTEP Upward Bound

2018-Present
Digital Curator/Archivist
Association for Applied Border History

PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles

2021 “Powerful Disruptions: Braceros, Campesinos, and the Green Revolution in Mexico, 1940-1970.” Agricultural History, vol.95 (3), p.472-499.

Book Reviews

2021 Enrique M. Buelna, Chicano Communists and the Struggle for Social Justice (University of Arizona Press, 2019). The Oral History Review, vol.48 (2), p.298-299.

INVITED TALKS

2021 “Resistance & Rebellion: The Rarámuri and Early Contact with the Spanish, 1607-1652.” Emerging Scholarship on the Borderlands of New Spain. LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections at the University of Texas at Austin and the C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Department at the University of Texas at El Paso. April 14.

2021 “Far from Isolated: Resilience and Adaptation Among the Rarámuri in the 20th Century.” Virtual Lecture, Amerind Museum, Dragoon, AZ. February 20.

2017 “Far from Isolated: Resilience and Adaptation Among the Rarámuri in the 20th Century.” Autumn Fest, Amerind Museum, Dragoon, AZ. October 28.

CONFERENCES

2018 “Between Memory and Forgetting: The Bracero Archives of the Border Farmworker Center.” Power Lines: Annual Meeting of the National Council on Public History, Las Vegas, NV. April 19.

2016 “Foreign Labor, Model Lives: Braceros, Agriculture, and the American Plan to Modernize Mexico, 1940-1969.” Thirteenth Annual Conference in Citizenship Studies: Gender, Sexuality, and Citizenship. Wayne State University, April 2.

2015 “‘Civilizing’ Traditional Agriculture: Colonialism and Resistance of Native Foodways in the Spanish Borderlands.” UTEP Graduate Student Research Expo.  UTEP Graduate School, Nov. 13.

2014 “Fiends, Addicts, and Ethnics: Racializing Drugs in America and on the Border.” UTEP Graduate Student Research Expo.  UTEP Graduate School, November 14.

2014 “Between Three Nations: Tohono O’odham and the U.S.-Mexico Border.” Phi Alpha Theta NMSU-UTEP Paper Conference. NMSU Department of History, March 1.

DEPARTMENTAL TALKS

2021 “Resilient by Nature:  Landscapes, Identity, and Rarámuri Ethnogenesis, 1607-1785.” UTEP Department of History, February 26.

2016 “From Out of the Archives: Taking Historical Research into the Public Sphere.” UTEP Department of History, September 9.

2015 “Practical Preservation: Archives, Archaeology, and CRM for Public History Professionals.” UTEP Department of History, April 28.

FELLOWSHIPS

2018 Mellon Doctoral Fellowship, The Humanities Collaborative, UTEP & EPCC

2017 NEH Career Diversity Summer Seminar Fellow

2017 Tom Lea Research Fellowship

2016 Diana Natalicio Environmental Internship