Faculty Publications

• At the First Table: Food and Social Identity in Early Modern Spain (University of Nebraska Press, February 2017)
• Women in Port: Gendering Communities, Economies, and Social Networks in Atlantic Port Cities, 1500-1800, edited with Doug Catterall, (Brill, 2012)
• Monarchy, Political Culture and Drama in Seventeenth-Century Madrid: Theater of Negotiation (Ashgate Press, 2006)

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• “Gender,” in The All-Volunteer Force: Fifty Years of History, Impacts, Challenges, and Implications, ed. William A. Taylor (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2023), 101-21.
• “Grand Narratives and Gendered Wars and Societies,” War and Society 42, no. 1 (February 2023): 82-89.
• “A Girl in Every Port? The U.S. Military and Prostitution in the Twentieth Century,” in The Military and the Market, edited by Jennifer Middlestadt and Mark Wilson (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022), 87-104.
• “She Who Has Borne the Battle: Vietnam Veterans of America’s Women’s Project,” in Service Denied: Marginalized Veterans in American History, edited by John Kinder and Jason Higgins (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2022), 143-58
• “Reproduction in Combat Boots,” in Managing Sex in the U.S. Military: Gender, Identity, and Behavior, co-edited by Beth Bailey, Alesha Doan, Shannon Portillo, and Kara Dixon Vuic (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022), 119-40

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• “Englishman John R. Jewitt's Enslavement Among the Nuu-Chah-Nulth,” Eighteenth-Century Studies, (2022), 243-253.
• Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire (Basic Books, 2019)
• “Forward,” The Yamasee Indians:  From Florida to South Carolina, ed., Denise Bossy (University of Nebraska Press, 2018).
• “European Slaving of Native Americans,” in Princeton Companion to Atlantic History (2015)
• “Defining the European Frontier City in Early Modern Asia: Goa, Macau, and Manila,” in Frontier Cities in the Early Modern World (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).

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• "A Potions Lesson: Experiential Learning in the History Classroom," The History Teacher 57, no. 3 (2024): 397-407.
• "Bookmaking in Tlatelolco After the Apocalypse," in American Contact: Intercultural Encounter and the History of the Book, ed. Rhae Lynn Barnes and Glenda Goodman (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024): 82-89.
• "The Heist: A Massive Theft of Pre-Columbian Art Reveals Troubling Truths About Texans' Role in the Illicit Antiquities Trade," co-authored with Jack Emery, Michael Fung, Sofía Gómez Pichardo, Jack Hines, Anthony Peebler, and Leonel Rodriguez, Texas Observer, June 10, 2024.
• Guest editor, "Reproduction and the Mesoamerican Book," Dialogues of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 5 no. 4 (2023).
• "The Echo of Voices after the Fall of the Aztec Empire," Hispanic American Historical Review 103, no. 2 (2023): 217-249. *Awarded the James Alexander Robertson Prize by the Conference on Latin American History for best article published in HAHR.

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• “Adoption of Domestic Female Salves in 17th Century Istanbul,” Journal of Global Slavery. (Submitted)
• “Ottoman Legal Practice and Non-Judicial Actors in 17th Century Istanbul,” The Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association, 2 (1), 2015, pp. 21-36.

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• Flood on the Tracks: Living, Dying, and the Nature of Disaster in the Elkhorn River Basin (Texas Tech University Press, 2018)
• Inspiration and Innovation: Religion in the American West (Wiley, 2015)
• “State Violence and the Un-American West: Mormons, American Indians, and Cults,” in From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, and America (University of California Press, 2012).
• “Rock Music and the New West, 1980-2010,” Western Historical Quarterly 42(Spring 2012): 53-71.
• God’s Country, Uncle Sam’s Land: Faith and Conflict in the American West (University of Illinois Press, 2006)

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• The Battle at Lake Changjin: The Influence of Korean War Memory on Contemporary Chinese War Films. Journal of Chinese Military History, 13(1), 53–92.

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• Race and Reproduction in Cuba (University of Georgia Press, 2022).
• A Cuban City, Segregated: Race and Urbanization in the Nineteenth Century (University of Alabama Press, 2019).
• Revolutionary Masculinity and Racial Inequality: Gendering War and Politics in Cuba, 1895-1902 (University of New Mexico Press, 2018). Paperback, 2021.
• Voices of Crime: Constructing and Contesting Social Control in Modern Latin America, co-edited with Luz E. Huertas, and Gregory Swedberg (University of Arizona Press, 2016)

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• Terror’s Triumph: The British Empire and the Origins of Modern Terrorism (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025)
• Guest co-editor with Ian Campbell Ross, Eire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies, 49: 1&2 (Spring/Summer 2014) Special Issue on Irish Crime since 1921
• Property Crime in London, 1850-Present (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011).
• “Going on the Hoist: Women, Work, and Shoplifting in London, c. 1890-1940.” Journal of British Studies 50, No. 2 (April 2011): 410-433

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• Political Intelligence and the Creation of Modern Mexico, 1938-1954. Penn State University Press, 2010.
• “Derecha Mexicana (coyuntura de 1940)” in Torcuato di Tella and Patricia Chomnález, eds. Repertorio politico. 4 vol. A United Nations Development Program publication. (Buenos Aires: Emecé Planeta, 2007).
• “La fusión fracasada: Almazán y Amaro en la campaña presidencial de 1940”, Boletín del Fideicomiso Archivos Plutarco Elías Calles y Fernando Torreblanca 49 (August 2005), pp.1-32.

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• “Of Plants and Providence: Assessing Drugs, Difference, and Divine Will in Timothy Bright’s The Sufficiencie of English Medicines (1580),” Renaissance Quarterly 78, no. 4 (Winter 2025).
• Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024).Winner, 2025 John Ben Snow Prize, North American Conference on British Studies.
• Co-author (with Hannah Frydman), “Introduction: Histories of Abortion Beyond Roe,” Gender & History 36, no. 2 (Summer 2024): 289–294.
• Guest editor, “Reproductive Rights Beyond Roe,” a special forum in Gender & History 36, no. 2 (Summer 2024): 289–333.
• “How to Cure a Horse, or, the Difference Between the Knowledge of Experience and the Experience of Knowledge,” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 52, no. 4 (2022): 546–552.

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• Grain and Fire: A History of Baking in the American South. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2022. 
• “In Favor of our Fathers’ Country and Government’: Unionist Women in North Texas." In Texas Women and the Civil War: Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi, edited by Deborah Linsley Liles and Angela Boswell. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 2016.
• “Sallie McNeill: A Woman’s Higher Education in Antebellum Texas.” In Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives. Edited by Elizabeth Hayes Turner, Stephanie Cole, and Rebecca Sharpless, 82-104. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015.
• Texas Women: Their Histories, Their Lives. (Coeditor with Elizabeth Hayes Turner and Stephanie Cole) Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2015.
• "‘She Ought to Have Taken Those Cakes’: Southern Women and Rural Food Supplies.”  Southern Cultures 18, no. 2 (summer 2012), 45-58. 

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• ed. The Selected Papers of John Paul Jones, with James C. Bradford, under Contract with the University of Alabama Press.
• Drumming Through War and Peace: The Life of Jordan Bankston Noble, 1800-1890, under Contract with LSU Press.
• ed., A Fortified Sea: The Defense of the Caribbean during the Eighteenth Century, with Pedro Luengo-Gutiérrez. forthcoming 2024 with University of Alabama Press.
• ed. TCU’s First 100 Years: Images and Stories, Fort Worth, with Jackson W. Pearson. Fort Worth, TX: TCU Press, ISBN: 978-0-87565-840-7, 2023.
• ed. Coloring Texas History: A Texas History Coloring Book, with LeAnna Schooley. Fort Worth, TX: TCU Press, 2022.

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• Insurgent Beauty: Indigenous Art in Urban Panama.  University Press of Mississippi, 2025. 
• Náñez-Woodward Collection of Panamanian Popular Art (2022).  University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries (Digital Library of the Caribbean).  Collection of 1000 digitalized photos of Panamanian art and artists.
• Restaurantes, rumba y más: Gringo’s Guide to Latino Fort Worth.  TCU Press, 2014.
• Wolf Tracks: Popular Art and Re-Africanization in Twentieth-Century Panama.  University Press of Mississippi, 2012. ACLS Humanities Ebook.
• Co-author. “Historical Commentaries, Panama and the Canal Zone.” In The Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Association Papers, Volume XI: The Caribbean Diaspora, edited by Robert A. Hill. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011, ccxli–ccxlix. 

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• “Children in the Archive: Migration and School Life in Turn-of-the-Century Egypt.” In Children and Youth Migrants in Middle East and North African History (Special Issue). Mashriq & Mahjar: Journal of Middle East & North African Migration Studies 11.2 (2024): 93-117.
• “A Latin Alphabet for the Arabic Language: Romanizing Arabic in Late Nineteenth-Century Egypt and Beyond.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 55, no. 3 (2023): 444-460.
• “Printing Arabic Manuscripts in the Sixteenth Century.” InManuscripts and Arabic-Script Writing in Africa, eds. Stewart, Charles and Ahmed Chaouki Binebine. The Islamic Manuscript Association, 2023: 175-197.
• Conversation Series"History Sounds." Borderlines, Community Site of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (CSSAAME).
• “‘Their Parents Are All Sailors and Blue-Collar Workers:’ Elementary Education in the Suez Canal Region at the Turn of the Century.” In Italy and the Suez Canal, from the Mid-nineteenth Century to the Cold War: A Mediterranean History. ed. Barbara Curli. Palgrave MacMillan, 2022: 297-312.

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• “El Paso.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Oxford University Press, 2014. Article published November 22, 2023. 

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• This Great Struggle: America’s Civil War. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011.
• Manifest Destinies: Westward Expansion and the Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
• Sherman. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
• Nothing but Victory: The Army of the Tennessee, 1861-1865. New York: Knopf, 2005.
• While God is Marching On: The Religious World of Civil War Soldiers. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2001.

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• "The 'Acid Test' of the Revolution: Demobilization and the Collapse of Chiang Kai-shek's Military Coalition in 1929," Twentieth-Century China, Volume 46, 3 (October 2021): 268-286. https://doi.org/10.1353/tcc.2021.0024 
• “A Tale of Two Fronts: China’s War of the Central Plains, 1930” War in History, (2017): 1-24. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0968344516685927
• General He Yingqin: The Rise and Fall of Nationalist China. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2016.
• “Continuity and Change: Chinese Nationalist Army Tactics, 1925-1938,” The Journal of Military History, 78, 3 (July 2014): 995-1016.
• “The Eastern Expeditions of 1925: A Defining Moment in the History of the Nationalist Military,” [當代中國研究] Modern China Studies, 17, 2 (2010): 19-47.

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