UMass Boston

Modern Mexican History, Latin American Political Economy, History of Commodities and Consumption, Mexican Gender and Cultural History

PhD, Stony Brook University

MA, Tufts University

BA, Middlebury College

• Co-Authored with Lawrence Clayton and Michael Conniff, A New History of Modern Latin America, Revised and Expanded, Third Edition (University of California Press, 2017)
• Co-authored with Edward Beatty, “The World’s Beer: The Historical Geography of Brewing in Mexico,” in Mark Patterson and Nancy Hoalst Pullen, eds., The Geography of Beer (Springer, 2014).
• Made in Mexico: Regions, Nation and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s-1940s (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010).
• "The World of Mexican Workers in Historical Perspective,” in José Cruz, ed., Latino Immigration Policy: Context, Issues, Alternatives, Proceedings of the New York Latino Research and Resources Network Conference on Latino Immigration Policy, November 3, 2006 (New York: New York Latino Research and Resources Network, University at Albany, State University of New York, 2007).
• “Working Class Masculinity and the Rationalized Sex: Gender and Industrial Modernization in the Textile Industry in Postrevolutionary Puebla,” in Jocelyn Olcott, Mary Kay Vaughan, and Gabriela Cano, eds., Sex in Revolution: Gender, Politics, and Power in Modern Mexico (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006). [Published in translation: Gabriela Cano, Mary Kay Vaughan, and Jocelyn Olcott, comps. Género, poder, y política en el México posrevolucionario (Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 2009).]
• “The Politics of Economic Nationalism in Postrevolutionary Mexico,” History Compass, Blackwell Publishing, 4, Issue 3 (May 2006): 567-577.
• “Masculine Bonds and Modern Mothers: The Rationalization of Gender in the Textile Industry in Puebla, 1940-1952,” International Labor and Working-Class History 63 (October 2002): 63-80.