Publications

Research Articles and Book Chapters

"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).


Reviews, Commentaries, and Shorter Pieces

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.

“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)

H-Diplo Review Essay, Barbara Keys, “Congress, Kissinger, and the Origins of Human Rights Diplomacy,” December 2010.

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/)

Work in Progress

"Of Light and Struggle in Uruguay: the Contested International History of Human Rights" manuscript being prepared

"The Road to Recognition: Afro-Uruguayan Activism and the Struggle for Visibility" article under review

"Cold War Foreign Policy: U.S.- Uruguayan Relations" ​ongoing research project