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I am a historian at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I earned a PhD from the University of Wisconsin. Click here for contact information.

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Other Writing

Ghosts of Passion. Martyrdom, Gender and the Origins of the Spanish Civil War

Nation and Conflict in Modern Spain: Essays in Honor of Stanley G. Payne, co-edited with Sasha D. Pack and Carl Gustaf-Scott, Madison: Parallel Press, 2008.

 “Boxer in New York: Spaniards, Puerto Ricans and Attempts to Construct a Hispano Race.” Journal of American Ethnic History vol. 35, 4 (Summer 2016): 32-58.

“A ‘Suspiciously Swarthy’ Boxer: Luis Firpo and the Ambiguities of the Latin Race.” Radical History Review Issue 125 (May 2016): 97-115.

“Harry Wills and the Image of the Black Boxer from Jack Johnson to Joe Louis” Journal of Sport History 39, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 63-80.

“When the Bounding Basque met the Brown Bomber: Race and Ethnicity in World Boxing before the Second World War” Sport in Society 11, no. 6 (Nov. 2008): 643-656.

“ ‘A Sharp Note of Pugnacity’: Conservative Youth Groups in Spain, 1914-1939” in Nation and Conflict in Modern Spain: Essays in Honor of Stanley G. Payne. Madison: Parallel Press, 2008.

“Revolutionary Warrior and Gendered Icon: Aida Lafuente and the Spanish Revolution of 1934” Journal of Women’s History 15, no. 2, (Summer 2003): 99-122.

“ ‘Your Comrades Will Not Forget!’ Revolutionary Memory and the Breakdown of the Spanish Second Republic, 1934-36” History & Memory 14, nos. 1-2 (Fall 2002): 65-92.