Books

Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial, co-edited volume with David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Sarah Jaquette Ray. Temple University Press, November 2019.

The Nature of California: Race, Citizenship, and Farming since the Dust Bowl. University of Washington Press, May 2016.

Special Journal Issue

Latinx Outdoor Recreation. Diálogo: An Interdisciplinary Studies Journal Co-edited with Gabriela Enriqueta Nuñez, David Vázquez, and Priscilla Solis Ybarra, 61.2, in production for September 2025. 

“Belonging Afuera: Undisciplining and (Re)creating the Latinx Outdoors” co-authored with Priscilla Solis Ybarra, Gabriela Enriqueta Nuñez, David Vázquez, and Moe Gámez.

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

 “Abolish or Abolition Environmentalism?” Co-authored with Priscilla Solis Ybarra. Forum: Solidarity in Incommensurability: Ethnic Studies and the Environmental Humanities, ed by Michelle Huang and Carlos Nugent. American Quarterly 77.1 (2025): 145-153.

“Yo Cuento: Transmedia Testimonios and Latinx Participation in the Outdoor Diversity Movement.” Latino Studies 22 (2024): 452-472.

“Farmworkers and the Alternative Food Movement in U.S. Debates about Citizenship, Immigration, and Agricultural Labor.” Diálogo 19.2 (2016): 63-68.

 “‘Refusing to Halt’: Mobility and the Quest for Spatial Justice in Helena María Viramontes’s Their Dogs Came with Them and Karen Tei Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange.” Western American Literature 48.1 + 48.2 (2013): 70-89. 

“Visible Farmers/Invisible Workers: Locating Immigrant Labor in Food Studies.” Food, Culture, and Society 14.4 (2011): 567-86.

Chapters in Edited Collections

“Challenging White Sanctuary: Twenty-First Century Representations of Asian American Outdoor Recreation,” Natured Unfurled: Asian American Environmental Histories. Edited by Connie Chiang. University of Washington Press, 2024. 221-245. 

“Leisure over Labor: Latino Outdoors and the Production of a Latinx Outdoor Recreation Identity.” Cambridge Companion to American Literature and the Environment. Eds. Sarah Ensor and Susan Scott Parrish. Cambridge University Press, 2022. 175-188.

“America Is in the Heart as Postcolonial Pastoral: A Case Study of Carlos Bulosan,” Asian American Literature in Transition Vol 2 (1930-1965). Eds. Victor Bascara and Josephine Lee. Cambridge University Press, 2021.  231-247.

 “Farmworker Activism.” Cambridge Companion to Food and Literature. Ed. J. Michelle Coghlan. Cambridge University Press, 2020. 197-214. 

 “Agriculture and Asian American Literature” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture. Ed. Josephine Lee. Oxford University Press, 2020.  101-112.

            Translated for the Journal of Poyang Lake (leading ecocriticial journal in China) 

"Constructing Latinidad in National Parks: Consumer Citizenship and Nation Building in the National Park Foundation's Outreach Efforts to Latina/os." Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial. Eds. Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Sarah Jaquette Ray. Temple University Press, 2019. 52-75. 

 “‘The bodies of the earth are available for full exploitation’: An Interview with Helena María Viramontes” with David Vázquez and Paula M.L. Moya. Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial. Eds. Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Sarah Jaquette Ray. Temple University Press, 2019. 164-176.

“‘An Organic Being in the Middle of Chicago: An Interview with Ana Castillo” with Priscilla Solis Ybarra. Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial. Eds. Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vázquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Sarah Jaquette Ray. Temple University Press, 2019. 131-144.

“Sustainable Harvests: Food Justice, Community-Based Learning, and Environmental Justice Pedagogy.” Service Learning and Literary Studies in English. Eds. Laurie Grobman and Roberta Rosenberg. New York: Modern Language Association Press, 2015. 224-234. 

“Hisaye Yamamoto as Radical Agrarian.” Asian American Literature and the Environment.  Eds. Lorna Fitzsimmons, Youngsuk Chae, and Bella Adams. New York: Routledge Press, 2014. 149-66.

 “Planting Japanese Roots in U.S. Soil: Ecological Citizenship in David Mas Masumoto’s Harvest Son and Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s The Legend of Fire Horse Woman.” American Studies, Ecocriticism, and Citizenship: Thinking and Acting in the Local and Global Commons. Eds. Joni Adamson and Kimberly Ruffin. New York: Routledge Press, 2012. 87-100. 

 “‘We ain’t foreign’: Constructing the Joads’ White Citizenship.” The Grapes of Wrath: A Reconsideration. Michael J. Meyer, ed. Dialogue Series. Volume 2. Atlanta: Rodopi Press, 2009. 481-505. 

Academic Collaborations

Tierra Viva Collaborative, co-founder and core member, 2022-Present.

Public Humanities Projects

Northwest Forest Plan Just Futures Collaborative, Project Lead, 2024-2025.

“Amplifying Tribal Sovereignty and Environmental Justice in the Northwest Forest Plan,” White Paper (community-reviewed), primary co-authors with Meredith Jacobson and Tim Ingalsbee.

Northwest Forest Plan Just Futures Symposium, Lead organizer.  

Media Coverage by KEZI television , KMTR television, and Coast Range Radio.

Race, Environmental Justice and Public Lands Symposium, Lead organizer, 2018.

Multi-day symposium featuring 31 speakers, 14 community organizations, and 500 attendees

Digital Humanities Projects

Racial Ecologies of Mt. Hood National Forest, Project Lead, 2021. https://blogs.uoregon.edu/mounthoodstories/  Launched December 2021. Collaboration with UO Libraries Dream Lab (Kate Thornhill and Gabrielle Hayden), Bark (Courtney Rae), and the graduate students in ENG 660: Racial Ecologies. 

Bibliographies (Peer Reviewed)

“Latinx Environmentalisms.” Co-authored with Moe Gámez. In Oxford Bibliographies in Environmental History. Ed. Lisa Brady. New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming. 

Pedagogy Publications 

“Teaching Guide: Under the Feet of Jesus,” UO Common Reading Program. Faculty Advisor. Spring 2019. Web. 

“Teaching Diversity with an Inclusive Ecocriticism.” Teachers’ Guide to The Colors of Nature. Milkweed Press, 2013. Web