Publications

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ARTICLES

“Niños por la causa: Child Activists and the United Farm Worker Movement, 1965-1975,” Pacific Historical Review 92, no. 2 (Spring 2023): 227-259. 

**Winner of the 2024 Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Article Prize

**Winner of the 2024 CCWH Carol Gold Best Article Award

“California Suffrage: A Game-Changer in the National Votes-for-Women Campaign,” Bulletin, California State Library Foundation, no. 129, December 2020. 

“The Wolf at the Door: Child Actors in Liminal Legal Spaces,” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 11, no. 1 (Winter 2018): 57-62. 

“Cultivating Healthy Personalities: Iowa and the Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth,” Annals of Iowa 75, no. 2 (Spring 2016): 130-163.

“They ‘used to tear around campus like savages’: Children’s and Youth’s Activities in the Santo Tomás Internment Camp, 1942-1945,” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 5, no. 1 (Winter 2012): 87-117. 

** Winner of the 2013 Neil Sutherland Article Prize

I have reviewed books for:

~  Journal of Popular Culture

~ History: Reviews of Books

~ Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth

~ Pacific Historical Review

~ Southwest Journal of Cultures

~ Minerva: Journal of Women and War

~ The History Teacher

~ Annals of Iowa

I have refereed peer-reviewed articles for:

~ Bulletin of the History of Medicine

~ Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth

~ Pacific Historical Review

~ The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

I have written articles for:

~ Music in American Life: An Encyclopedia of the Songs, Styles, Stars, and Stories That Shaped Our Culture, Greenwood, 2013.

~ Encyclopedia of Latino-American History, Facts on File, 2011.

~ The Encyclopedia of Play in Today’s Society, SAGE Reference, 2009.

~ Encyclopedia of the Jazz Age: From the End of World War I to the Great Crash, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2008.

~ American Countercultures: An Encyclopedia of Nonconformists, Alternative Lifestyles, and Radical Ideas in U.S. History, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2008.

NOVEL 

I am currently writing my first historical novel. Set in Manila during World War II, it is a story inspired by the extraordinary Allied civilians who endured three years of captivity under the Imperial Japanese Army.