Welcome! I am the Fannie Gaston-Johansson Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. At Hopkins, I am a part of the Program in Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies, and I am on the board of the Chloe Center for the Critical Study of Racism, Immigration, and Colonialism.
In my book project, Exporting Borders, I explain how the U.S. externalization regime and the Mexican containment regime are mutually constituted and how the bureaucracy drove the latest U.S. imperial intrusion into Mexico. In my Immigration Bureaucracy Lab, we are building an archive to reconstruct the making and rise of the post-9/11 U.S. homeland security bureaucracy.
Learn more about my research on (I) bureaucracy, borders, migration, (II) organization(s) and power, (III) power-sharing methodologies, and (IV) policy briefs on DACA, TPS, and conservative base-building.
- “[W]e look forward to more scholarship which closely examines the continuously evolving and contingent nature of state regulation of human mobility, including the ways states’ own transnational mobility and ensuing policy cascades impact states and societies far beyond their own borders” – Read more in: “Hierarchy in the Politics of Migration: Revisiting Race, Ethnicity, and Power in the Migration State.”
- “The United States also deploys digital tools to fortify nation-state borders…” – Read more in: “The Power-Enhancing and Power-Diminishing Effects of Digital Technologies: Marginalized People and US Racial Authoritarianism”
Through the Latinx Organizational Archives (LXOA) Project, our community-academia research collective is mapping the Latino organizational terrain across exclusionary and repressive environments. Learn more about power-sharing methodologies in political science and stay tuned for a Special Issue on Civically Engaged Research in Politics, Groups, and Identities.
I teach research-intensive courses on the politics of migration and the expansion of borders. Check out my syllabus bank. My APD courses on Latinos and the American political landscape revisit APD’s biggest questions through the experiences of Latinos. In Spring 2025, the course theme was “Revisiting APD Through the Experiences of Latinos across Time and Place.” In Fall 2025, the course theme was “The Violence of Path Dependence and the Power of Path-Makers.”
I come from a family of women from San Luis Potosí. Through the fundraising, guidance, and support from educators and members of the Lockhart, Texas, community, I was able to attend Rice University as a first-generation college student. I graduated from Lockhart High School in 2009, earned my BA from Rice University in 2013, earned my PhD from the Department of Government at Harvard University in 2020, and I served as an Assistant Professor at Arizona State University from 2021 to 2024.
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