Academic Publications

“Citizenship and Autonomy: Bilateral Labour Migration Governance and its Discontents in Malawi, Mexico, and Spain, 1919-75.” Journal of Global History (2026).

“Dead Ends and Passageways: ‘Temporary’ Migrant Workers in the Long 1970s.” In The Global Migration Turn and the New International Order in the Long 1970s. Ed. Simone Paoli and Emmanuel Comte, 27–41. Abingdon, U.K., New York: Routledge, 2026.

“Forum: Translation, Migration, Narrative.” [seven-essay dossier coedited with Christoph Rass] History and Theory 64: 3 (2025).

“Migrating Concepts: The Transatlantic Origins of the Bracero Program, 1919-42.” Article with coauthor Christoph Rass, American Historical Review 129:1 (2024): 22-52. Winner, Latin American Studies Association – Mexico section, best article in the social sciences; Honorable Mention, Kimberly Hanger Article Prize, Latin American and Caribbean Section of the Southern Historical Association.

In Sickness and in Health: Migrant Citizenships in the Postwar Years,” Migrant Knowledge blog, curated by the German Historical Institute (2020).

“Introduction: Immigration History and the End of Southern Exceptionalism,” special issue, “Multi-ethnic Immigration and the U.S. South,” Journal of American Ethnic History 38:4 (2019): 5-9.

La Revolución Institucional: The Mexican New Deal in the U.S. South, 1920-80,” chapter invited for Shaped by the State: Toward a New Political History of the 20th Century, ed. Lily Geismer, Brent Cebul and Mason Williams. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.

Holguín Mendoza, Claudia, Robert Davis and Julie Weise. “La pedagogía crítica y las ciencias sociales: Estrategias para empoderar a estudiantes de español como lengua de herencia y de segunda lengua” [Critical pedagogy and social sciences: strategies to empower Spanish heritage language and L2 learners]. Hispania 101:3 (2018): 368-380.

“The Bracero Program: Mexican Workers in the Arkansas Delta, 1948-1964.” In Race and Ethnicity in Arkansas, ed. John A. Kirk, 197-212. Fayetteville, Ar.: University of Arkansas Press, 2014.

“Dispatches from the ‘Viejo’ New South: Historicizing Recent Latino Migrations,” special issue, “Latinos in the U.S. South,” Latino Studies 10: 1-2 (2012), 41-59.

“Mexican nationalisms, Southern racisms: Mexicans and Mexican Americans in the U.S. South, 1908-1939.” American Quarterly 60, no. 3 (2008), special issue, “Nation and Migration—Past and Future”: 749-777.