I am a professor of History and Political Science and the Chair of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences at Governors State University. I have published articles in the Review of International Political Economy, Paedagogica Historica, the New Mexico Historical Review, the Journal of the West, the World History Bulletin, and the Journal of the Southwest. My publications have focused on the centralization of education and the creation of the corporatist state in post-revolutionary Mexico, borderlands schooling, and education in the Sierra Tarahumara. I have presented on Mexican electoral politics and the impact of NAFTA on U.S. elections, U.S.-Mexican immigration issues, and the impact of expanded Chinese trade in Latin America. My book, From Many, One: Indians, Peasants, Borders, and Education in Callista Mexico, 1924-1935, was published by the University of Calgary Press. An edited volume on transnational crime in North America (with Elaine Carey) was published by the University of Arizona Press. A monograph with Dr. Laura Tuennerman on the gendering of the Tohono O'odham in the early 20th century was published in early 2013. I am currently working on an edited volume on indigenous people in the North American West (Canada, U.S., and Mexico) and on a special borderlands issue for The Middle Ground.