Selected Publications:

2024 On the Shoulders of Ancestors: Ceremony and Ritual, The Art of Willis Bing Davis. Exhibition catalogue. Dayton: University of Dayton Press,

2023 “How Chicana Women Artists Have Often Used the Figure of the Virgin of Guadalupe for Political Messages.” The Conversation, https://theconversation.com/how-chicana-women-artists-have-often-used- the-figure-of-the-virgin-of-guadalupe-for-political-messages-213720.

2018 “Latino Artistic Hybrid Communities in the Midwest,” Global Midwest Latino Art, University of Illinois Press,

2011 Marking the Past/Shaping the Present: The Art of Willis Bing Davis. Exhibition catalog. Dayton: University of Dayton Press,

2008 Masks, Music, and Musings: A Retrospective Exhibition on the Art of Curtis Barnes Sr. Exhibition catalog. Dayton: University of Dayton Press,

2007 “Borderlands Critical Subjectivity in Recent Chicana Art,” Gender on the Borderlands: The Frontiers Reader. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007) pp. 104-121.

2003 "Chicana Critical Pedagogies: Chicana Art as Critique and Intervention," in Proceedings on The Interpretation and Representation of Latino Cultures, Research, and Museums. (Washington D.C.: Center for Latino Initiatives, Smithsonian, 2003) 153-172.

2003 "Borderlands Critical Subjectivity in Recent Chicana Art," in Frontiers: Journal of Women’s Studies, vol. 24, no. 2 & 3, (Omaha: U of Nebraska Press, 2003) 104-121.

2000 California Chicana Collectives and the Development of a Liberatory Artistic Praxis in America. Dissertation: U of California, Santa Barbara,

1995 Spirituality and Activism in the Art of Robert Campbell. Master’s Thesis, Rice University,.

1995 Tierra de Vida, the Art of Robert Campbell. Exhibition catalog. Houston: Diverse Works Art Space,

Selected Addresses and Papers Presented

2016 “Contemporary Latin American Art of the Midwest,” Midwest Art Historical Society Annual Conference, Chicago, IL.

2016 “Abstraction and Realism in Contemporary Latin American Art of the Midwest,” Smithsonian Institute, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL.

2016 “Visions and Values: Latino Art of the Midwest,” University of Dayton Roesch Library, Curator’s Talk, U of Dayton, OH.

2015 “Notes on Educating 21st Century Artists, Developing Cultural Competencies,” at National Association of Schools of Art and Design Annual Conference, Houston, TX.

2015 “Activism in the Art of Julie Green: Concerning The Last Supper and Final Meals of Death Row Inmates,” The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH.

2015 "Charles Scheeler: Stacks in Celebration", A Visual Feast, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH.

2013 “JPparalelos: Staging Hybrid Identities within the Heartland,” at Smithsonian Institute, National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C..

2013 “Los Dialoguistas: Staging Hybrid Identities across Transnational Currents” at MALCS Movements, Migrations, Pilgrimage Conference, Ohio State University.