Profile

Democracy's Child: Young People and the Politics of Control, Leverage, adn Agency (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022).

“Populists, Clients, and U.S. Immigration Wars: Modes of Immigration Politics in American Development,” Polity (Winter 2021).

 “Race, Ethnicity and American Immigration Policy,” with Anna Law, forthcoming in David Leal, Taeku Lee, and Mark Sawyer, Oxford Handbook on Racial and Ethnic Politics in the United States, (Oxford University Press, 2021). 

“Rival Visions of Nationhood: Immigration Policy, Grand Strategy, and Contentious Politics,” forthcoming in Christopher Nichols, Rethinking Grand Strategy (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021).

Rivalry and Reform: Presidents, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Politics, with Sidney Milkis, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019). Named Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2019. 

“The Modern Presidency and the Washington Lobbying Community,” in The Presidency and the Political System, edited by Michael Nelson (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2020).

“Framing Kids: Children, Immigration Reform, and Same-Sex Marriage,” with Alison Gash, Angelita Chavez, and Malori Musselman, Politics, Groups, and Identities, Fall 2019.

“Tenuous Belonging: Diversity, Power, and Identity in the U.S. Southwest,” with Robin Jacobson, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Winter, 2019. Winner of WPSA's Charles Redd Award.

The Politics of International Migration, with Marc Rosenblum, Oxford Handbook Series, (New York: Oxford University Press, new paperback edition in 2018).