• Ph.D. Washington State University, 1999.
• M.A. Washington State University, 1993.
• B.A. University of California, Santa Cruz, 1991.

Latin America

19th & 20th Century Middle East

Instructor: Universidad Internacional Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, since 2004.

Seminars Delivered: Teaching Methods, Geographic History of the United States, Cuba, and Overview of United States History, January 5-9, 2009, at Hanoi National University of Education, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Workshop on Research Publication. Harold Stanislaw, Marjorie Sanchez-Walker, Keith Nainby. Conducted January 13-16, 2009 at Phranakhon Rajabhat University, Bangkok, Thailand.

• “Vietnam,” in the Encyclopedia of Motherhood. O’Reilly, Andrea and Geoffrey J. Golson [eds.] Sage Press. Forthcoming 2010.
  
  
• Woven Within My Grandmother’s Braid: The Biography of a Mexican Immigrant Woman,
  1898-1982. Floricanto Press. Forthcoming 2009.
  
  
• Review: Contested Policy: The Rise and Fall of Federal Bilingual Education in the United States, 1960-2001, in the Journal of Southern History. Pending.
  
  
• “Fannie Zlabovsky and Grandma Stone’s Buick: Tales of Rescue on the Eve of the Holocaust at the US-Mexico Border Crossing.” Empire Conference. CSU Stanislaus, March 13-15, 2008.
  
  
• Commentor on the panel entitled, The West and Latin American Identities: Regional and World Perspectives on Popular Imagery, Conflict, and Materialism. World History Association Conference. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, June 28-30, 2007.
  
  
• “The Wider Cristero Rebellion, Mexican immigrants, the Catholic Church and transnational ethnic politics.” Paper delivered on the panel Mexicali, Managua, Mexico, and the Mission: Situating Transnationalism in Everyday Americas Culture at the American Studies Association Annual Conference, Oakland, California, October 13-15, 2006.
  
  
• “A Woman’s Charity Based on the Dignity of Humankind: Mexico-United States Transnational Communication.” Paper delivered on the panel Representations & Practices of Spirituality and round-table presenter on the panel Aunts, and Aunties: Narratives of Aunts and Aunting in Feminist Lives, at the Organization for the Study of Communication, Language and Gender Conference, Notre Dame, Illinois, October 14-17, 2004.
  
  
• “Cuba, Castro, Ché, and Coco-Cabs: Reflections on my Trip to the Island of the Palm Trees,” at the Spring Faculty Lecture Series, CSU Stanislaus, Turlock, California. March 24, 2004.
  
  
• “The Evolution of an Academic Subversive: A Secret Memoir,” Faculty Voices, A
  Narrative Writing Project, California State University, Stanislaus, 2003.
  
  
• Moderator, The Benevolent Impulse: Travel, Ethnography, and Imperialism, at the
  Empire and Imperial Cultures Conference. California State University, Stanislaus, Turlock,
  California. February 27-28, 2004.
  
  
• Panelist, “American History IV,” National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of
  Preservation and Access. Washington, D.C., November 29-30, 2001.
  
  
• “‘Not a religious vocation, but a way to do God’s work:’ Women Immigration Advocates at
  the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1922-1963.” Paper delivered on the panel Women’s Advocacy,
  Reform, and the Politics of Immigration on the US/Mexico Border, 1917-1960s at the
  Gender on the Borderlands Conference at St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas,
  July 12-14, 2001.
  
  
• Panel Chair and commentator: “Fragile Alliances: Native American & White Women’s
  Activism in the West at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” at the Women’s West
  Conference on Gender, Race, Class, and Region. Washington State University,
  July 27-20, 2000.
  
  
• “Parallel Lines of Shifting Humanity: The Encounter of Portugal and Africa
  with Indigenous America, 1500-1800.” Portuguese Summer Institute, CSU Stanislaus, June 17, 2000.
  
  
• “Sarah Weadick” and “Caroline A. Boone,” in The Encyclopedia of American Catholic
  Women. (ed) Michael Glazier. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, pending.
  
  
• Chapter, “Petra: The Biography of a Mexican Immigrant Woman, 1898-1982,” for a two-
  volume anthology on women in Latin America history. David G. Sweet (ed.). University of
  Nebraska Press, pending.
  
  
• “The Pet Bureau: the National Catholic Welfare Conference Immigration Bureau at El
  Paso, 1933-1941,” presenter in the session, Immigration and Catholic Advocates at
  Ellis Island and El Paso in the 1930s. Paper Delivered at the American Historical
  Association Conference Chicago, Illinois. January 6-9, 2000.
  
  
• “Immigrants & Immigration Policy at the United States-Mexico Border,” presenter and organizer of the panel U.S.-Mexico Border and Transborder Immigration Policy in the
  1930s, American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch, August 6-9, 1998. San
  Diego, California.