Academic Publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• “The “New Wars”: security and cooperation in Mexico and Northern Central America,” with José Miguel Cruz. Crime Law Soc Change (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-023-10130-w

• "Regionalizando la larga Guerra Fría en México: violencia y anticomunismo en Puebla, 1930-1979," Estudios De Historia Moderna Y Contemporánea De México, n.º 65 (2023), 179-210. 

• “Mexico’s Long War on Drugs: Past and PresentFailures of a Punitive Approach to Drugs". Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, 4(2), pp.223–229, December 2022.

• “Martyrs, Fanatics, and Pious Militants: Religious Violence and the Secular State in 1930s Mexico,” The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History, Special Issue: Forging a Catholic Nation amidst a Secular State, The Americas, Volume 79, Issue 2, April 2022 , pp. 197 - 227

• “Deadly Rumors: Lynching, Hearsay, and Hierarchies of Credibility in Mexico,” Journal of Social History, Special Section: Interpretative Challenges in the Archive: Rumor, Forgery, and Denunciation in Latin America and the Caribbean , Journal of Social History (vol. 55, Issue 1, 2021, pp. 85–104.

• “Violence in Postrevolutionary Mexico,” Oxford Encyclopedia of Latin American History, published online August 31, 2021.

• “Violence in Postrevolutionary Mexico,” Working Paper Series, Kellogg Institute for International Studies, No. 444, May 2021.

• “The Lynching of the Impious: Violence, Politics, and Religion in Post-Revolutionary Mexico (1930s-1950s),” The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History  (Vol. 77, no. 1, 2020), pp. 101-28.

• “Lynching and the Politics of State Formation in Post-Revolutionary Puebla (1930s-1950s),” Journal of Latin American Studies (Vol. 51, no. 3, 2019), pp. 499-521.

• “Determinants of Support for Extralegal Violence in Latin America and the Caribbean,” with José Miguel Cruz,  Latin American Research Review (vol. 54, no. 1, 2019), pp. 50-68.

• “Maras y pandillas: límites de su transnacionalidad,” Revista Mexicana de Política Exterior No. 81, Las Fronteras de México. July- October, 2007.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters

• "When Cooperation Is Not Enough: North America's Security Paradigm and the Failure to Protect Citizens' Security," in North America: Stagnation, Decline, or Renewal? edited by Eric Hershberg and Tom Long, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press (2023). 

• “Representation, Refusal and Remembrance: Lynching and Extralegal Violence in Mexico and the United States (1890s-1930s),” in Sonia Hernández and John Morán González (eds), Reverberations of Racial Violence: Critical Reflections on Borderlands History (University of Texas Press, 2021).

• “‘The darkest and most shameful page in the university’s history’: Mobs, Riots, and Student Violence in 1960s-1970s Puebla,” in Jaime M. Pensado and Enrique C. Ochoa (eds.) México Beyond 1968 Revolutionaries, Radicals, and Repression During the Global Sixties and Subversive Seventies (University of Arizona Press, September 2018), pp. 215-235. 

• “Lynching, Religion and Politics in Twentieth-Century Puebla,” in Michael Pfeifer (ed.) Global Lynching and Collective Violence. Volume II (University of Illinois Press, Fall 2017).

• “Legitimating Lynching: Public Opinion and Extralegal Violence in Mexico,” in Gema Santamaría and David Carey Jr. (eds.) Violence and Crime in Latin America: Representations and Politics (University of Oklahoma Press, Spring 2017).

• “Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Criminal Violence in U.S. – Latin American Relations,” in Jorge Dominguez and Rafael Fernández de Castro, Contemporary U.S. Latin American Relations: Cooperation or Conflict in the 21st Century?, Routledge, 2016.

• “Lynching, Criminality and Racialized Subjects in Mexico,” in Luz Huertas, Bonnie Lucero, and Gregory J. Swedbert (eds.) Voices of Crime: Constructing and Contesting Social Control in Modern Latin America (University of Arizona Press, 2016).

• “Authorizing Death: Memory Politics and States of Exception in Contemporary El Salvador” in Yifat Gutman, Amy Sodaro y Adam Brown (eds.), Memory and the Future: Transnational Politics, Ethics and Society, Palgrave-Macmillan, New York, 2010.

Edited Volumes

• Human Security and Chronic Violence in Mexico: New Perspectives and Proposals from Below, edited with Alexandra Abello-Colak (Editorial Porrúa, México, 2019)

• Violence and Crime in Latin America: Representations and Politics, edited with David Carey Jr. (University of Oklahoma Press, 2017).

• Violencia y crimen en América Latina (Spanish Edition), edited with David Carey Jr. (Libreria CIDE, 2021)

Other Book Chapters

• “La difusión y contensión del crimen organizado en la región México-Centroamérica,” in Eric Olson and Juan Carlos Garzón (eds), The Criminal Diaspora: The Spread of Transnational Organized Crime and How to Contain its Expansion, Woodrow Wilson Center, April 2013.

• “Political transition, Social Violence and Gangs: Cases in Central America and Mexico” with Fernandez de Castro, Rafael and Cruz, Jose Miguel; In the Wake of War:  Democratization and Internal Armed Conflict in Latin America, Washington, D.C. and Palo Alto, CA: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Stanford University Press, 2011.