Short story

2003 “The Promise.” Anthropology & Humanism, Vol. 28, Issue no.1: 101-110.

Essays

2019 “Books as Bridges,”  https://www.powells.com/post/original-essays/books-as-bridges

2016 “We’re Not Surviving, We’re Living.” Four part series about Junt@s Vamos, a cancer support group in Juárez, Mexico (with Mary Alice Scott). Guest Voz, Latina Lista, December 19-22. latinalista.com

2015 “Remembering the 43 Students of Ayotzinapa is to Recognize the Pursuit of Justice in a Country Wracked with Impunity and Elitism,” with Ana Cristina Vázquez Carpizo. Guest Voz, Latina Lista, September 2nd. latinalista.com

2008 “Women’s Co-ops Organize on Both Sides of Border.” Grassroots Press, Vol. 6, No.2, p. 3.

2008 “Earth and Life are Synonymous for Indigenous People of Chiapas.” Grassroots Press, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 6 & 8.

2007 “Lost in the Desert: Humanitarian Crisis at the Border.” (with Sally Meisenhelder). Grassroots Press, Vol. 5 (4): 1 & 4.

2003 “Local Women’s Delegation to Chiapas Tackles Social Injustice.” (with members of Las Cruces-Chiapas Connection). Grassroots Press, Vol. 1 (4), Oct/Nov., pp. 1,6, 7.

Guest Editorials and Op-Ed pieces

2015 “Don’t Forget the Students of Ayotzinapa, Mexico.” Guest editorial, El Paso Times, 19 September. Also appeared in The Las Cruces Sun News on 20 September.

2011 “Migrant Farm Workers Face Racial Profiling and the Threat of Deportation.” Guest editorial, Burlington Free Press, 27 September.

2002 “Reflections of Hope.” Guest editorial, Las Cruces Sun News, 10 September.

1997 “Terror is Rampant in Chiapas.” Guest editorial, El Paso Times, 28 December.

1994 “Mexican Rebels Seek Freedom From Outside Interference.” Op-ed piece, Hartford Courant, 7 January.

Academic articles and book chapters

2015 “Weaving Cooperatives and the Resistance Movement in highland Chiapas, Mexico: Pass Well Over the Earth.” In Artisans and Advocacy in the Global Market Walking the Heart Path. Jeanne Simonelli, Katherine O’Donnell, and June Nash, editors. Pp. 75-98. School of Advanced Research, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

2011 “Tell Them What Kind of An Anthropologist You Are!” Frontiers: A Journal of Feminist Studies, Fall 2011, Vol 11, No. 1, Special issue, “Feminist Anthropology Meets Queer Anthropology: A Tribute to the Work of Liz Kennedy.”

2008 “Border Crossings, From Theory to Practice: Looking for Floriberto.” (with Sally Meisenhelder). Practicing Anthropology, Vol. 31 (1): 25-29.

2007 “Women and Gender in Mesoamerica.” (with Brenda Rosenbaum). In The Legacy of Mesoamerica: History and Culture of a Native American Civilization (revised and updated edition). Robert Carmack, Janine Gasco, Gary Gossen, editors. Pp. 810-875. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. (Rosenbaum and I rewrote the bulk of the chapter in light of the wealth of new scholarship published since the 1996 edition.)

2006 “Reflections on Working with Women’s Cooperative Economic Groups in the United States, Mexico and Cameroon. (with Megan Snedden and Meghann Dallin, two former students). Practicing Anthropology, Vol 28 (3): 28-33.

2006 “‘Are We Standing on a Rock or Sand?’: Questioning Women-Centered Organizing in the United States, Mexico and Cameroon.” (with Megan Snedden, Meghann Dallin and Irma Castañeda). Practicing Anthropology, Vol 28 (3): 34-38.

2005 “Gender and Mesoamerican Religions.” (with Christine Kovic). In The Encyclopedia of Religion. (2nd edition). Lindsay Jones, Editor in Chief, Davíd Carrasco, Section Editor, Pp. 3411-3415. Macmillan, New York

2003 “Living Their Faith in Troubled Times: Two Catholic Women.” In Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle and Hope, edited by Christine Eber and Christine Kovic, pp. 113-129. New York & London, Routledge.

2003 “Introduction.” (with Christine Kovic). In Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle and Hope, edited by Christine Eber and Christine Kovic, pp. 1-22. New York & London, Routledge.

2003 “Buscando una nueva vida (searching for a new life): Liberation Through Autonomy in San Pedro Chenalho’, 1970-1998.” In Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias: The Indigenous People of Chiapas and the Zapatista Movement, edited by Shannon Mattiace, Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, and Jan Rus, pp. 135-159. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland.

2002 “Buscando una nueva vida: La Liberación a través de la autonomía en San Pedro Chenalho’, 1970-1998.” In Tierra, libertad y autonomía: impactos regionales del zapatismo en Chiapas,edited by Shannon Mattiace, Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, and Jan Rus, pp. 319-363. The International Work Group on Indigenous Affairs and El Centro de Investigaciones Superiores en Antropología Social, Copenhagen and Mexico City.

2002 “Seeking Our Own Food: Indigenous Women’s Power and Autonomy in SanPedró Chenalho’, Chiapas, 1980-1998” In Rereading Women in Latin America and the Caribbean: The Political Economy of Gender, edited by Jennifer Abbassi and Sheryl L. Lutjens, pp. 231-245. Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland.

2002 “Women’s Cooperatives in Chiapas: Strategies of Survival and Empowerment.” (with Janet Tanski). The Journal of Social Development Issues, Vol. 24, Issue no.3, pp. 33-40.

2001 “‘Take my water’: Liberation Through Prohibition in San Pedro Chenalho’, Chiapas.” Special Issue, “Alcohol and Drug Studies at the Millennium.” Social Science and Medicine, Volume 53, Issue #2: 251-262.

2001 “Buscando una nueva vida (searching for a new life): Liberation Through Autonomy in San Pedro Chenalho’, 1970-1998.” Latin American Perspectives, Issue #117, Volume 28, No. 2: 220-247

2001 “Women and the Democracy Movement in San Pedro Chenalho’.” In The Other Word: Women and Violence in Chiapas, Before and After Acteal, edited by Rosalva Aída Hernández Castillo, pp. 75-93. The International Work Group on Indigenous Affairs, Copenhagen.

2001 “Obstacles to Women’s Grassroots Development Strategies in Mexico” (with Janet Tanski). The Review of Radical Political Economics 33: 441-460.

2001 “Contemporary Gender Roles in Mesoamerica” (with Robin O’Brian). In The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures: The Civilizations of Mexico and Central America, Vol. 1, Davíd Carrasco, Executive Editor, pp. 432-434. Oxford University Press, New York.

2000 ‘That they be in the middle, Lord’: Women, Weaving, and Cultural Survival in San Pedro Chenalho’. In Artisans and Cooperatives: Developing Alternative Trade for the Global Economy, edited by Kimberly Grimes and Lynne Milgram, pp. 45-64. University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

1999 “Seeking Our Own Food: Indigenous Women’s Power and Autonomy in San Pedró Chenalho’, Chiapas, 1980-1998.” Latin American Perspectives, Issue #106, Volume 26, No. 3, pp. 6-36 .

1998 “Las mujeres y el movimiento por la democracia en San Pedro Chenalho’ (Women and the Democracy Movement in San Pedro Chenalho’).” In La otra palabra: Violencia y la mujer en Chiapas, antes y despues de Acteal, edited by R. Aída Hernández Castillo, pp. 84-105. CIESAS, COLEM and CIAM, Mexico.

1997 “Seeking Justice, Valuing Community: Two Women’s Paths in the Wake of the Zapatista Rebellion.” Working paper #265. Women and International Development Working Papers Series, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI.

1996 “Communique on Violence Toward Women in Chiapas.” Latin American Perspectives Issue 91, Volume 23, No. 4: 6­-8.

1993 “‘That We May Serve Beneath Your Hands and Feet’: Women Weavers in Highland Chiapas.” (with Brenda Rosenbaum). In Crafts in The World Market: The Impact of Global Exchange on Middle American Artisans, edited by June Nash, pp. 154-180. State University of New York Press, Albany.

1992 “Trayendo el margin al centro: mujer y genero en Mesoamérica” (“Bringing the Margin to the Center: Women and Gender in Mesoamerica”), co-editor with Brenda Rosenbaum and Irma Otzoy. Co-authored introduction with Rosenbaum, “Mujer y genero en Mesoameríca” (“Women and Gender in Mesoamerica”) Mesoamérica 23: xv-xxvi.

1988 “Un estudio feminista emica en los Altos De Chiapas” (A Feminist Emic Study in Highland Chiapas). Mexico Indígena. Mexico, D.F. Instituto Nacional Indigenista. Volume 21: 39-44.