Books
- 2024 Visible Ruins: The Politics of Perception and the Legacies of Mexico’s Revolution. Austin: The University of Texas Press.
Book Chapters
- Forthcoming “The Tajín Totonac in and outside the Frame: Violence and Alterity in the Photographic Archive of Isabel T. Kelly.” In The Visual in Latin American History, edited by Ernesto Capello and Jessica Stites-Mor. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Selected Articles
- 2024 “Shedding Light on Labor: Photography, Archaeology, and the Making of Monumentality in Tajín, Mexico.” Bulletin of the History of Archaeology.
- 2018 “(In)Visible Ruins: The Politics of Monumental Reconstruction in Post-revolutionary Mexico.” Hispanic American Historical Review 98(1):43–76.
- 2016 “Crude Residues: The Workings of Failing Oil Infrastructure in Poza Rica, Veracruz, Mexico.” Environment and Planning A 48, no. 4: 718–35.
- 2015 “Enacting Agrarian Law: The Effects of Legal Failure in Post-revolutionary Mexico.” The Journal of Latin American Studies 47 (4) 685-715.
Book Reviews
- 2019 Review of Framing a Lost City: Science, Photography, and the Making of Machu Picchu, by Amy Cox Hall. Hispanic American Historical Review 99, no. 4 (November): 767–69.
- 2018 Review of Rubble: The Aftermath of Destruction, by Gastón Gordillo. Hispanic American Historical Review 98, no. 3 (August): 549–550.
- 2018 “Salas Landa on Bueno,” review of The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico, by Christina Bueno. H-Net Reviews (December).
Other publications
- 2024 “Extraction on Display: Delving into Research, Curation, and Collaboration at a Small Liberal Arts College” Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship. Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction.
- 2023 (coauthored) “Encountering Lauren Berlant: Cruel and Other Optimisms.” The Geographical Journal 189: 143–160.
- 2018 “Commentary: Toxic Bodies, Part I.” Engagement (blog of The Anthropology and Environment Society). February 22.
Manuscripts in Submission
- “A Postcard View of Progress: Pemex’s Visual Propaganda and the Aesthetics of Mexico’s Technological Nationalism.” History of Technology, special issue edited by Yovanna Pineda, Diana Montaño, and Mikael Wolfe.
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“Rough Topographies: Grounding the History of Oil Extraction in Mexico’s Gulf Coast.”