Degrees

PhD, Government, Cornell University
MA, Government, Cornell University
BA, Political Science & Chicana/o Studies, Loyola Marymount University

Publications

• Walls, Cages and Family Separation: Race and Immigration Policy in the Trump Era (Cambridge University Press, 2020) with Sophia Wallace
• Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization, and Activism
  (Cambridge University Press, 2017)
• “Do Latinos Still Support Immigrant Rights Activism? Examining Latino Attitudes a Decade After the 2006 Protest Wave.”
  With Sophia Jordán Wallace. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (JEMS), 2019
• “Mobilizing for Immigrant Rights Under Trump.”
  With Sophia Jordán Wallace. In Charting the Resistance: The Emergence of the Movement Against President Donald Trump. Eds. Sidney Tarrow and David Mayer, Oxford University Press, 2018
• “The Political Effects of Having Undocumented Parents: How Parental Illegality Impacts the Political Behavior of their U.S.-Born Children.”
  With Alex Street and Michael Jones-Correa. Political Research Quarterly, 2017
• “The Impact of Large-Scale Collective Action on Latino Perceptions of Commonality and Competition with African-Americans.”
  With Michael Jones-Correa and Sophia Jordán Wallace. Social Science Quarterly (SSQ), 2016
• “Weapons of the (Not So) Weak: Immigrant Mass Mobilization in the U.S. South.”
  Critical Sociology, 2016
• “Mass Deportation and the Future of Latino Partisanship.”
  With Alex Street and Michael Jones-Correa. Social Science Quarterly (SSQ), 2015
• “Perceptions of Threat, Demographic Diversity, and the Framing of Illegality: Explaining (non)Participation in New York’s 2006 Immigrant Protests.”
  Political Research Quarterly (PRQ), 2014
• “Spatial and Temporal Proximity: Examining the Effects of Protests on Political Attitudes.”
  With Sophia Jordán Wallace and Michael Jones-Correa. American Journal of Political Science (AJPS), 2014
• “Triangulation in Social Movement Research.”
  With Phil M. Ayoub and Sophia Jordán Wallace. Methodological Practices In Social Movement Research. Donatella della Porta (Ed.), Oxford University Press, 2014

Awards & Grants

• Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Research Book Award, American Sociological Association’s Collective Behavior & Social Movements Section

• Ralph Bunche Book Award, American Political Science Association

• Best Book on Race & Immigration Award, American Political Science Association’s Race, Ethnicity & Politics Section