Articles and Book Chapters
- “Puerto Rican Workers and the Struggle for Decent Lives in New York City, 1910s-1970s,” in Joshua Freeman, editor. Labor’s City: A History of Workers and Organized Labor in New York City. Museum of the City of New York. Columbia University Press, 2019.
- Winner of the 2019 International Labor Historians Association Book of the Year Award.
- “Discurso liberal, práctica campesina: la privatización de tierras en la región del volcán de San Vicente,” in López Bernal, Carlos Gregorio, (Ed.) Poder, actores sociales y conflictividad, El Salvador: 1786-1972. Colección Cultura y Sociedad. San Salvador: Dirección Nacional de Investigaciones en Cultura y Artes, SECULTURA, 2011.
- “Holding the City Hostage: Popular Sectors and Elites in San Miguel, El Salvador, 1875,” The Americas, 68:1 (July 2011): 63-95.
- Honorable Mention for the Tibesar Prize for best article in 2015, The Conference on Latin American History.
- “Land, Production and Trade: Nineteenth-Century Economic and Social Patterns” in A Companion to Latin American History, Thomas Holloway ed., Blackwell Companions to World History. Blackwell Publishing, 2008: 264-284.
- “The Culture and Politics of State Terror and Repression in El Salvador” in When the State Kills, Cecilia Menjivar and Nestor Rodriguez, eds. University of Texas Press, 2005: 85-114.
- “Local History, Politics and the State in El Salvador.” in Landscapes of Struggle: Community, Politics in El Salvador. Aldo Lauria Santiago and Leigh Binford, eds. Pittsburgh University Press, 2004: 1-19.
- “’They Call us Thieves and Steal Our Wage’: Toward a Reinterpretation of the Salvadoran Rural Mobilization, 1929-1931.” coauthored with Jeffrey Gould, Hispanic American Historical Review, May 2004.
- “Café Comunidad y Capitalismo Agrario en la Transformación del Campesino Ladino Salvadoreño.” Revista Repositorio-Archivo General de la Nación, I:1 (March 2003): 46-61
- “Los campesinos, el añil y la tierra en El Salvador.” Cultura: Revista del consejo nacional para la cultura y el arte. No. 86 (January-February 2002): 38-57.
- “Land, Community, and Revolt in Indian Izalco, 1860-1900.” Hispanic American Historical Review. 79:3 August 1999.
- Criscenti Best Article Prize 2000, New England Council of Latin American Studies.
- Reproduced in Landscapes of Struggle: Community, Politics in El Salvador. Aldo Lauria Santiago and Leigh Binford, eds. Pittsburgh University Press, 2003.
- “‘That a Poor Man be Industrious:’ Coffee, Community, and Agrarian Capitalism in the Transformation of El Salvador’s Ladino Peasantry, 1760-1900” in Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean, edited by Aldo Lauria-Santiago and Aviva Chomsky. Duke University Press, 1998.
- “La historia regional del café en El Salvador, 1850-1920.” Revista de Historia. No. 38. (July-December 1998): 9-62. [published in 2000].
- Reproduced in El Salvador: Historia General, Oscar Martínez Penate ed. (Editorial Nuevo Enfoque, 2002).
- “Una contribución biográfica a la historia del Partido Comunista de El Salvador: Entrevista con un ex-dirigente del PCS.” Revista de Historia. (San José) 1998.
- “Identity and Struggle in the Historiography of the Hispanic Caribbean and Central America 1860-1950.” with Aviva Chomsky in Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation-State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean, Aviva Chomsky and Aldo Lauria Santiago, eds. Duke University Press, 1998.
- “Los Indígenas de Cojutepeque, la política faccional, y el estado nacional en El Salvador, 1830-1890” in Construcción de las identidades y del estado moderno en Centro America, Arturo Taracena, ed. (San José: UCA Editores/CEMCA/FLACSO, 1995).
- “Historical Research and Sources on El Salvador.” Latin American Research Review, Spring 1995.”Las bases de la república agraria liberal, 1860-1900” in Historia de El Salvador, Knut Walter, Coord. Ed., (San Salvador: Ministerio de Educación, 1994).