Current Research

-Reckoning: New Public Sites of Historical Memory in the United States

-Spain's Historical Memory Laws

-Developing a Campus Infrastructure for Community Engaged Scholarship (UC Merced)

Contemporary War El Salvador
- Post-civil war nation building

- Culture, History, and Identity

- Social Memory and National Belonging

- 1932, Historical Memory, and Human Rights

- Indigeneity and Nation

- Migration, Diaspora, and Transnational State Practices

Indigenous Migration from Latin America to California
- San Francisco Bay Area

- San Joaquin Valley

Partnership for the Assessment of Communities: Disparities, Inequality, and Civic Engagement in the San Joaquin Valley
- Planada

- South Merced

CURAJ Demonstration Project. Research in the service of local communities 

- South Dos Palos (Merced County)

- Fairmead (Madera County)