Directory

Faculty Research

• Latinos/Latinas in the U.S.
• Transnational migration and immigration
• U.S. social, cultural, urban, and labor history
• Food studies
• The American West
• Race and ethnicity in the Americas

Books

• Steel Barrio: The Great Mexican Migration to South Chicago, 1915-1940. New York: New York University Press, 2013.
• Made in Chicago: Mexican Food, Tourism, and Cultural Identity (in progress)
• The Latino South: A History of Migration and Race in Pursuit of the American Dream (in progress)

Book Chapters

• “No Cheerful Patches of Green: Pollution, the Build Environment, and the Early Mexican Community on the Far Southeast Side of Chicago” in City of Lake and Prairie: Chicago’s Environmental History, ed. William Barnet, Kathy Brosnan, and Ann Keating, editors. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020)
• “Chicago Steel, Latino Workers, and Midwestern Environmental History” in The Latino Midwest Reader, ed. Omar Valerio-Jiménez, Santiago Vaquera-Vásquez, and Claire F. Fox. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017
• “Engaged Learning in the Anti-Immigrant South: Building Bridges in a Hostile Environment” in Civic Labors: Class, Community, & the Challenge of Engaged Scholarship, ed. Dennis Deslippe, Eric Fure-Slocum, and John McKerley. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2016)
• “Beyond the Baseball Diamond and Basketball Court: Organized Leisure in Interwar Mexican Chicago” in More Than Just Peloteros: Sport and U.S. Latino Communities, ed. Jorge Iber (Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2015)

Articles

• “Mexican Chicago’s Colonia Hull House: Food, Tourism, and Belonging in the 1930s” In Global Food History vol. 4 no. 1 (April 2018).
• “Beyond the Baseball Diamond and Basketball Court: Organized Leisure in Interwar Mexican Chicago.” The International Journal of the History of Sport 26, no. 7 (June 2009): 906-923.
• “Organizing for Fun: Recreation and Community Formation in Mexican South Chicago, 1919-1936.” The Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society 98, no. 3 (Autumn 2005) 144-161.
• “Beyond Bread and Butter: Graduate Student Organizing in a Right-to-Work State.” In Perspectives: Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association vol. 40 no. 2 (February 2002).