Tulane University

Constance Rourke Essay Prize for the best article published in American Quarterly 2012, 2013
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation Research Travel Grant, 2011
General and Mrs. Matthew B. Ridgway Military History Research Grant, US Army Military History Institute, 2010
Co-Winner, Taft Prize in Labor History, 2009
Nota Bene Book, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
Newcomb Fellow Travel Grant, 2009
Committee on Research Tulane Summer Research Grant, 2009
George Washington Egleston Prize, Yale University, 2007

Languages:

Spanish
French
Creole

Selected Publications

Forthcoming. “War, Persecution, and Displacement: U.S. Refugee Policy Since 1945.” At War: Militarism and U.S. Culture in the 20th Century and Beyond. Edited by David Kieran and Edwin A. Martini. Rutgers University Press
Forthcoming. “Where is Guantánamo in Granma? Competing Discourses on Detention and Terrorism.” Guantánamo and the Empire of Freedom: Politics and the Humanities at a Global Crossroads. Edited by Don Walicek and Jessica Adams. Palgrave McMillan Press.
2016. “Tours of Duty/Tours of Leisure: The Politics and Cultures of Militarism and Tourism.” With Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez and Teresia Teaiwa. American Quarterly.
2015. Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism. With Daniel Bender. New York: NYU Press.
2014. “A Refugee Camp in America; Fort Chaffee and Vietnamese and Cuban Refugees, 1975-1982,” Journal of American Ethnic History.
2013. “‘The Fish Trusts the Water, and it is in the water that it is cooked’: The Caribbean Origins of the Krome Detention Center,” Radical History Review Special Issue on “Haiti and the World.”
2012. “‘Give Us a Ship’: Vietnamese Repatriates on Guam, 1975,” American Quarterly 64.1: 1-31.
2011. “‘The Face is the Roadmap’: Vietnamese Amerasians in U.S. Political and Popular Culture, 1980-1988,” Journal of Asian American Studies, 14.1: 33-68.
2009. Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
2009. “Guantánamo and the Case of Kid Chicle: Labor, Privatization, and the Law in the Expansion of US Empire.” In Transitions and Transformations in the US Imperial State. Alfred McCoy and Francisco Scarano, eds. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin.
2008. “Buenos Vecinos”, Ciudadanos y Súbditos: Nacionalidad y Competencia Laboral en la Base Naval de Estados Unidos en Guantánamo.” Trans. Rolando García Milián. In Memorias del VII Taller Internacional de Problemas Teóricos y Prácticos de la Historia Regional y Local (Urbana). La Habana, Cuba-Chapingo, Mexico: Instituto de Historia de Cuba, Universidad de Chapingo.

Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses: US Empire Since 1898; US Foreign Relations Since World War II; US Foreign Relations before World War II; US Labor and Migration in the 20th Century; US Immigration

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 2