Research and Publications
Photograph provided by Fernando Lopez.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
“When “Doing With” Can be Without: Employing Critical Service-Learning Strategies in Creating the ‘New Orleans Black Worker Organizing History’ Digital Timeline,” Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, forthcoming.
“Esquinas, Loncheras, and Food Trucks: Navigating Bureaucracy and Enforcement in New Orleans.” Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies, Fall 2018, 13-25.
“Informed Gatekeepers and Transnational Violence: Using Perceptions of Safety of Latino/a Youth in Determining Immigration Cases.” co-authored with Clare Cannon and Miranda Stramel. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, May 2018, 40(2): 134-149.
“The Mafia, La Raza, and the Spanish-Language Press Coverage of the 1891 Lynchings in New Orleans.” Journal of Southern History. August 2017. 83(3): 509-530.
“Presumed Palettes and the Problems Perceived: Exploring Latin American Food and Food Establishments in the United States and New Orleans.” Race, Gender, and Class. 2011, 18(3-4): 316-328.
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP/DIGITAL MEDIA
"Hidden in Plain Sight: Las Pulgas of New Orleans" 2018
Gravy Podcast
"Who Will Rebuild Houston? 2017 North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
“New Orleans Con Sabor Latino” 2017 Permanent Exhibit. National Food and Beverage Foundation
“New Orleans Black Worker Organizing History” 2016 Digital Timeline co-produced with Colette Tippy, and Harvey Sanders.
1 X 100: Previniendo el VIH/SIDA 2007
Asuncion: Ministry of Children and Youth Paraguay, Peace Corps, United Nations
BOOK REVIEWS
A Recipe for Gentrification, edited by Allison Alkon, Yuki Kato, and Josh Sbicca. NYU Press. 2020. For Gastronomica: Journal for Critical Food Studies. Summer 2022.
The Taco Truck: How Mexican Street Food is Transforming the American City, by Robert Lemon. University of Illinois Press. 2019. for Great Plains Quarterly. Spring 2021. 31(1): 122-123.
“Immigration and Latino History-Hispanic and Latino New Orleans: Immigration and Identity Since the Eighteenth Century, by Andrew Sluyter, Case Watkins, James P. Chaney, and Annie Gibson, The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History, July 2018, 75:3, 574-575.
Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico, by Alyshia Gálvez (UC Press 2018), for Food, Culture, and Society, March 2019, 22:2, 254–256.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Gumbo Tapado: Politics of Food, Labor, and Migration in New Orleans, Book Manuscript.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
“Eating Baleadas in New Orleans.” Culinaria Research Center. University of Toronto. March 2019.
“El Sur Latino.” 20th Southern Foodways Symposium. Oxford, Mississippi, October 2017.
“Crescent City Culinaire: Latino Food Trucks in New Orleans Today.” National Parks Service: Jean Lafitte Historical Park and Preserve. September 2016.
“New Orleans Cultures as Life and Work.” Katrina at 10: New Orleans Ten Years After Katrina. University of New Orleans, March 2015.
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“The Politics of Cultural Extractivism.” American Studies Association. November 3, 2022.
“Teaching from Afar, Field Work at a Distance: Engaging with Food Ethnography in the Time of Covid-19.” Just Food: Because it’s Never Just Food Conference. Association for the Study of Food and Society. Virtual. June 15, 2021.
“Critical Food Studies Pedagogies: Philosophies of Teaching and Modes of Engagement,” panel session, American Studies Association. Baltimore, MD. November 2020 (cancelled due to Covid).
“Developer Graft, ICE Retribution, and Worker Precarity in New Orleans,” paper, American Anthropological Association. St. Louis, MO. November 2020. (cancelled due to Covid).
“Rebuilding by Documenting Worker Power: Planning and Reflecting with the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice.” Oral History Association. Virtual. October 23, 2020.
“Rebuilding by Documenting Worker Power: Planning and Reflecting with the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice.” Jobs with Justice and Labor Research and Action Network. Atlanta, GA. March 14, 2020 (cancelled due to Covid).
“A Tale of Two Telas: Food, Displacement, and Activism in New Orleans and Honduras.” American Studies Association. Honolulu, HI. November 2019.
“Deregulating Yet Policing: Latinx Labor and Resistance in New Orleans Restaurant Jobs.” American Anthropological Association. San Jose, CA. November 2018.
“Tacos and Gumbo: Politics of Immigration, Labor, and Food in New Orleans.” American Association of Geographers. New Orleans, LA. April 2018.
“The (In)Visibility of Latinx Foodways in New Orleans: 1920-Present.” Louisiana Historical Association. New Orleans, LA. April 2018.
“Latina/os in America Today: An Interdisciplinary View of New Latino Locations and Populations. Organization of American Historians. New Orleans, LA. April 2017.
“Street Legal: Taco Trucks, Changing Circumstances, and Shifting Policies in New Orleans.” American Anthropological Association. Minneapolis, MN. November 2016.
“Eating Tamales in New Orleans: Latinx Laborers, Visibility, and Integration.” Southern Foodways Alliance Graduate Symposium. University of Mississippi. September 2016.
“Mexican and Central American Foodways in New Orleans.” Labor and Working Classing History Conference: Fighting Inequality. Georgetown University. May 2015.
“Latin American Newspaper Coverage of the 1891 Lynchings of Eleven Italians in New Orleans.” Southern Labor Studies Association, Washington D.C. March 2015.
“What Scholars Look for When they Look for Scholarship.” American Association of University Presses Conference. New Orleans, LA. June 2014.
“Fiery’ Foods and Restaurants as Institutions: Latin American Immigration and Foodways in New Orleans from 1920-1950s.” Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies. New Orleans, LA. 2014.
“Transnational Citizens: Renegotiating Identity Across Borders.” (Moderated). Latin American Graduate Organization Conference, Tulane University. New Orleans, LA. February 2014.
“Return of the Catrachos: Transnationalism and Reintegration of Migrant Workers from New Orleans to Honduras.” Tinker Field Research Grant Symposium. New Orleans, LA. November 2013.
“Tortas, Po’Boys, and Po’Pusas? The Growth of Mobile Food Vendors in Post-Katrina New Orleans.” American Historical Association, New Orleans, LA. January 2013.