Publications

“Language, Church, and State in Territorial Arizona” José del Valle (ed.) A Political History of Spanish: The Making of a Language. Cambridge University Press. (Forthcoming 2011)

“Acquiring habitus: Shifting ideologies of language capital among immigrant day laborers in the Southwest.” Ana Roca, María Carreira, Cecilia Colombi (eds.) Spanish in the United States. Cascadilla Press: Somerville, MA. (Submitted).

“Conflicting discourses of rapport and co-membership: Gatekeeping encounters at a day labor center in Southern Arizona.” Bernd Meyer & Birgit Apfelbaum (eds.) Multilingualism at work: from policies to practices in public, medical, and business settings. Hamburg Studies in Multilingualism 9, Amsterdam: Benjamins. (Forthcoming 2010)

“Language Policy and the Drawing of Social Boundaries: Public and Private Schools in Territorial Tucson.” Spanish in Context 7(1): 25-45, 2010.

Performing Bilingualism: An Ethnographic Analysis of Discursive Practices at a Day Labor Center in the Southwest. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 2008.

“La mancha del plátano: Language policy and the construction of Puerto Rican national identity in the 1940s.” Spanish in Context. 4(2): 241-262, 2007.

“Gender Assignment to English Words in the Spanish of Southern Arizona.” Divergencias: Revista de estudios lingüísticos y literarios. 2(2): 27-39, 2004.

La mancha del plátano: The Effect of Language Policy on Puerto Rican National Identity in the 1940s. Master’s thesis. University of Arizona, 2004.

“Mexican Elites and Language Policy in Tucson’s First Schools.” Divergencias: Revista de estudios lingüísticos y literarios. 1(1): 3-17, 2003.