Publications
Research Articles and Book Chapters
“Operation Condor Trial: Transnational Prosecution and Its Effects,” in The Impact of Human Rights Prosecutions: Insights from European, Latin American, and African Post-Conflict Societies, edited by Rosario Figari Layus and Ulrike Capdepón (Leuven, Belgium: Leuven University Press, 2020).
"Reagan and the Waning Years of Uruguay’s Military Rule: Democracy Promotion and the Redefinition of Human Rights,” in The Reagan Administration, The Cold War, and the Transition to Democracy Promotion, edited by Michael Schmidli and Robert Pee (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019): 189-208
"Uruguay's Long Transitional Decade and a New Era of Gendered Activism," Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 23 no. 1 (October 2017): 383-398.
"Silêncios, direitos humanos e o referendo uruguaio de 1989 sobre a lei de anistia," TALLER: Revista de Sociedad, Cultura, Politica en America Latina 4 no. 5 (2015): 43-62.
“El Caso Gelman and the Battle Against Impunity in Uruguay,” in 40 Years is Nothing: History and Memory of the 1973 coups d’état in Uruguay and Chile, eds. Fernando Lopez and Pablo Leighton (UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015).
"Uruguay and the Re-conceptualization of Transitional Justice," in Transitional Justice and Legacies of State Violence in Latin America, eds. Marcia Esparza and Nina Schneider (Lexington Books, 2015), 135-153.
"Sovereignty and Human Rights: Re-examining Carter’s Foreign Policy Towards the Third World," Diplomacy & Statecraft (June 2014): 303-330.
“Moral Responsibility and the ICC: Child Soldiers in the DRC,” Eyes on the International Criminal Court 4 no. 1 (2007).
Commentaries and Shorter Pieces
"The Evolution of Transitional Justice in Uruguay," Oxford Research Encyclopedia on Latin American History (April 2022).
Co-Author with Yannick Kluch, "Rule 50 and Racial Justice: The Long History of the International Olympic Committee's War on Athletes' Free Expression," History News Network, August 22, 2021.
"Why Mexico is a haven for political exiles like Bolivia's former president Evo Morales," Washington Post, December 8, 2019.
Co-Author with Jennifer Rich, "President Trump's executive order won't redefine Judaism, but it will complicate rising anti-Semitism," Philadelphia Inquirer, December 16, 2019.
“Jimmy Carter’s Notre Dame Speech,” Voices and Visions Foreign Relations Reader, Digital History Project, 2017.
"Romero Jorge Rodriguez," Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017)
"Affirmative Action Tests Uruguay Government Commitment to Race," North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) (September 2, 2014).
"Uruguay's Complex Human Rights Landscape," Foreign Policy (July 29, 2014)
"Uruguay's No a la Baja Campaign Takes Center Stage," North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) (July 8, 2014).
"Chile" and "Wisconsin", Encyclopedia of World Poverty, 2nd edition (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, forthcoming).
Co-author with Abby Goldberg, “Uruguay’s Struggle for Historical Accountability,” Upside Down World: Online Magazine for Politics and Activism in Latin American (July 25, 2013).
New Media Advocacy Project Blog, 2013 ( http://blog.newmediaadvocacy.org/).
- "Uruguayans Mobilize for the Montevideo Launch of Nunca Más Qué,” April 24, 2013
- “CEJIL and N-Map Launch Nunca Más Qué”, March 11, 2013
- “Gelman Hearing Sheds Light on the State of Uruguay’s Accountability Efforts,” Feb. 22, 2013
Contributing Writer, Latin Correspondent, 2014-2015 (http://latincorrespondent.com/)
Contributing Writer, Independent Voters Network, 2012-2016. (ivn.us)
“Marie Meyer,” and “Yzetta L. Nelson,” An Encyclopedia of Women at War: From the Home Front to the Battlefields, ed. Lisa Tendrick Frank (ABC-Clio Publications, 2013).
“Human Rights,” Encyclopedia of Military Science (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2013)
Co-author with Lt. Governor Barbara Lawton, “The Role of States in US Citizen Diplomacy,” The U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy (November 2010).
Contributing Writer, Policy á la Carte, 2010. (http://www.policyalacarte.com/)
Reviews
H-Diplo Roundtable Essay of Theresa Keeley, Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020), June 2021.
H-Nationalism Review Essay of Tanya Harmer, Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life (Chapel Hill, UNC Press, 2020) , January 2021.
Introduction to H-Diplo Roundtable of Reagan, Congress, and Human Rights: Contesting Morality in US Foreign Policy by Rasmus Sinding Søndergaard, December 2020.
Review of The Insubordination of Photography: Documentary Practices Under Chile’s Dictatorship by Ángeles Donoso Macaya, Journal of Social History, September 2020.
H-Diplo Review Essay of Sarah Snyder, “Ending our Support for the Dictators: Ed Koch, Uruguay, and Human Rights,” Cold War History (2020), July 2020.
Review of Thomas C. Mann: President Johnson, the Cold War, and the Restructuring of Latin American Foreign Policy by Thomas Tunstall Allcock, Journal of American Studies 54 (2020).
H-Diplo Review Essay of Michael Franczak, “Human Rights and Basic Needs: Jimmy Carter's North-South Dialogue, 1977-1981," Cold War History 18:4 (2018): 447-464.
H-Diplo Review Essay of Lars Schoultz, In Their Own Best Interests: A History of U.S. Effort to Improve Latin Americans. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2018.
Review of From Selma to Moscow: How Human Rights Activists Transformed U.S. Foreign Policy by Sarah Snyder (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018) in Human Rights Quarterly 41 no. 1 (May 2019).
H-LatAm Review Essay of James Brennan, Argentina's Missing Bones: Revisiting the History of the Dirty War. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018.
H-Diplo Review Essay of Amanda Rothschild, "Rousing a Response: When the United States Changes Policy toward Mass Killing," International Security 42 no. 2 (Fall 2017): 120-154.
Review of Uruguay, 1968 by Vania Markarian, Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 43 no. 1 (February 2018): 146-149.
H-Diplo Review Essay, Barbara Keys, “Congress, Kissinger, and the Origins of Human Rights Diplomacy,” December 2010.
Work in Progress
Of Light and Struggle: Human Rights, Social Justice, and Accountability in Uruguay (Philadelphia, Penn Press, forthcoming 2023)
"The Road to Recognition: Afro-Uruguayan Activism and the Struggle for Visibility," forthcoming
"Opposing Affirmative Action: Covert and Coded Challenges to Racial Equality in Uruguay," forthcoming
"Cold War Foreign Policy: U.S.- Uruguayan Relations," ongoing research project
"Debating the 1986 Amnesty Law in Uruguay: A View from the Interior," ongoing research project
"Uruguayan Human Rights Activism in the UK and the US," manuscript being prepared
"Sports, Politics, and Human Rights Memory in South America," new project
"Transnational Jewish Activism and the Southern Cone dictatorship," new project
"Uruguay, Justicia, and the Inter-American Court," manuscript being prepared with Francesca Parente
"The Road to Recognition: Afro-Uruguayan Activism and the Struggle for Visibility," forthcoming
"Opposing Affirmative Action: Covert and Coded Challenges to Racial Equality in Uruguay," forthcoming
"Cold War Foreign Policy: U.S.- Uruguayan Relations," ongoing research project
"Debating the 1986 Amnesty Law in Uruguay: A View from the Interior," ongoing research project
"Uruguayan Human Rights Activism in the UK and the US," manuscript being prepared
"Sports, Politics, and Human Rights Memory in South America," new project
"Transnational Jewish Activism and the Southern Cone dictatorship," new project
"Uruguay, Justicia, and the Inter-American Court," manuscript being prepared with Francesca Parente
