PUBLICATIONS
RECENT PUBLICATION:
“Unsilencing the Past and Re-membering: The Spirit Work of Movement-Era Tejanas” In !Somos Tejanas! Chicana Identity and Culture in Texas (UT Press, 2025)
* Recipient of the 2025 NACCS Tejas Foco Book Award.
FORTHCOMING BOOK
CHICANA SPIRITUAL ACTIVISM: MAKING CHANGE, MAKING SOUL
(University of Arizona Press, 2026)
JOURNAL ARTICLES & ANTHOLOGY CONTRIBUTIONS
2019. “Radical Mami Love: Chicana Consejos del Corazón" in Voices From the Ancestors and Beyond: Chicanx/Latinx Spiritual Expressions, co-edited by Lara Medina and Martha Gonzales, 258-272. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
2018. “The Space in Between: Exploring the Development of Chicana Feminist Thought in Central Texas.” In Chicana Movidas: New Narratives of Activism and Feminism in the Movement Era, edited by Maylei Blackwell, Maria Cotera, and Dionne Espinoza, 189-211. Austin: UT Press.
2014. “Methodologies of the Spirit: Reclaiming Our Lady of Guadalupe and Discovering Tonantzin Within and Beyond the Nepantla of Academia.” In Fleshing the Spirit: Spirituality and Activism in Chicana, Latina and Indigenous Women’s Lives, edited by Elisa Facio and Irene Lara, 81-101. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
2013. “The Cultural Production of Spiritual Activisms: Gender, Social Justice, and the Remaking of Religion in the Borderlands.” Chicana/Latina Studies 12(2): 59-109.
2009. “Mother’s Legacy: Cultivating a Chicana Consciousness in the War Years.” In Beyond the Latino War Hero: The Social and Political Legacy of Latinas/os & WWII, eds. Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez and Emilio Zamora, 156-177.Austin: UT Press.