Here are links to book reviews I have written.

• Mabel Moraña and Miguel Alejandro Valerio, ed. Mapping diversity in Latin America: race and ethnicity from colonial times to the present (October 2025).
• Casey High, Translating worlds, defending land : collaborations for indigenous rights and environmental (August 2025).
• Nicholas A. Robins, The Shining Path in Huancavelica, Peru : conflict and the legacy of exclusion (May 2025).
• Marc Edelman, Peasant politics of the twenty-first century : transnational social movements and agrarian change (October 2024).
• Brooke Larson, The lettered Indian : race, nation, and indigenous education in twentieth-century Bolivia (July 2024).
• Nicolás Buckley, Urban guerrilla vs. citizens revolution: the Ecuadorian dilemma at the turn of the century (June 2024).
• Laura Quintana and Nuria Sánchez Madrid, Neoliberal techniques of social suffering: political resistance and critical theory from Latin America and Spain (February 2024).
• Pascal Lupien, Indigenous civil society in Latin America : collective action in the digital age (December 2023).
• Debbie Sharnak, Of light and struggle: social justice, human rights, and accountability in Uruguay (November 2023).
• Lorenza B. Fontana, Recognition politics: Indigenous rights and ethnic conflict in the Andes (November 2023).
• Timothy M. Gill, Encountering US empire in socialist Venezuela: the legacy of race, neocolonialism, and democracy promotion (July 2023).
• William Neuman, Things are never so bad that they can't get worse: inside the collapse of Venezuela (February 2023).
• Carmen Martínez Novo, Undoing Multiculturalism: Resource extraction and indigenous rights in Ecuador (April 2022).
• Elizabeth Jelin, The struggle for the past : how we construct social memories (January 2022).
• Ashley Elizabeth Kerr, Sex, skulls, and citizens : gender and racial science in Argentina (1860-1910) (March 2021).
• Helga Baitenmann, Matters of justice: Pueblos, agrarian reform, and judiciary in revolutionary Mexico (November 2020).
• Marcela A. Fuentes, Performance constellations : networks of protest and activism in Latin America (August 2020).
• Leigh Binford, Lesley Gill, and Steve Striffler, ed., Fifty years of peasant wars in Latin America (July 2020).
• Amy Cooper, State of health : pleasure and politics in Venezuelan health care under Chávez (October 2019).
• Hannah Burdette, Revealing Rebellion in Abiayala: The insurgent poetics of contemporary Indigenous literatures (September 2019).
• Penelope Anthias, Limits to decolonization : indigeneity, territory, and hydrocarbon politics in the Bolivian Chaco (October 2018).
• Ingeborg Gaarde, Peasants Negotiating a Global Policy Space: La Vía Campesina in the Committee on World Food Security, (March 2018).
• Joaquín Mauricio Chávez, Poets and Prophets of the Resistance: Intellectuals and the origins of El Salvador's civil war (September 2017).
• Manuel Llamojha Mitma and Jaymie Patricia Heilman, Now Peru is mine : the life and times of a campesino activist (April 2017).
• Alessandra Pellegrini Calderón, Beyond indigeneity : coca growing and the emergence of a new middle class in Bolivia (March 2017).
• María L. O. Muñoz, Stand Up and Fight: participatory indigenismo, populism, and mobilization in Mexico, 1970-1984 (October 2016).
• James J. Phillips, Honduras in dangerous times: resistance and resilience (April 2016).
• Geoffroy de Laforcade and Kirwin Shaffer, ed., In defiance of boundaries: anarchism in Latin American history (February 2016)
• Arthur Scarritt, Racial spoils from native soils : how neoliberalism steals indigenous lands in highland Peru (October 2015).
• Christopher Krupa and David Nugent, ed., State theory and Andean politics: new approaches to the study of rule (September 2015).
• Mara Loveman, National Colors: Racial classification and the state in Latin America (January 2015).
• Sebastián Carassai, The Argentine silent majority : middle classes, politics, violence, and memory in the seventies (December 2014).
• Lindsey Blake Churchill, Becoming the Tupamaros: solidarity and transnational revolutionaries in Uruguay and the United States (July 2014).
• Tracy Devine Guzmán, Native and national in Brazil: indigeneity after independence (October 2013)
• Carlos Iván Degregori, How Difficult it is to be God: Shining Path's politics of war in Peru, 1980-1999 (May 2013).
• Jean Muteba Rahier, ed., Black Social Movements in Latin America: From monocultural mestizaje to multiculturalism (December 2012).
• Emma Cervone, Long Live Atahualpa: Indigenous politics, justice, and democracy in the Northern Andes (December 2012).
• Miguel La Serna, Corner of the Living: Ayacucho on the Eve of the Shining Path Insurgency (September 2012).
• Gregory Hammond, The Women's Suffrage Movement and Feminism in Argentina From Roca to Perón (April 2012).
• Henry Louis Gates, Black in Latin America (February 2012).
• James F. Siekmeier, The Bolivian revolution and the United States, 1952 to the present (December 2011).
• Nicola Foote and René Harder Horst, ed., Military Struggle and Identity Formation in Latin America: Race, nation, and community during the liberal period (August 2011).
• Robert Andolina, Nina Laurie, and Sarah A. Radcliffe. Indigenous Development in the Andes: Culture, Power, and Transnationalism (January 2011).
  
• Alberto Flores Galindo, In search of an Inca: Identity and utopia in the Andes (December 2010).
• Elizabeth Maier and Nathalie Lebon, ed. Women's Activism in Latin America and the Caribbean: Engendering social justice, democratizing citizenship (November 2010).
• Karem Roitman, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Ecuador: The manipulation of mestizaje (June 2010).
• Jason Wilson, The Andes: A cultural history (April 2010).
  
• Pamela Murray, For glory and Bolivar: The remarkable life of Manuela Sáenz (October 2009).
• Peter Blanchard, Under the Flags of Freedom: Slave soldiers and the wars of independence in Spanish South America (May 2009)
• Laura Gotkowitz, A Revolution for our Rights: Indigenous struggles for land and justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952 (February 2009).
• Bettina Ng'weno, Turf Wars: Territory and citizenship in the contemporary state (May 2008).
• Héctor Lindo-Fuentes, Erik Ching, Rafael Lara Martínez, Remembering a massacre in El Salvador (July 2008).
• William F. Sater, Andean Tragedy: Fighting the war of the Pacific, 1879-1884 (May 2008).
  
• Marshall C. Eakin, The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures (April 2008).
• Lolita Gutiérrez Brockington, Blacks, Indians, and Spaniards in the Eastern Andes: Reclaiming the forgotten in colonial Mizque, 1550-1782 (December 2007).
• Barry J. Lyons, Remembering the Hacienda: Religion, Authority, and Social Change in Highland Ecuador (September 2007).
• John Lynch, Simón Bolívar, A life (May 2007).
  
• Florencia E Mallon, Courage Tastes of Blood: The Mapuche community of Nicolas Ailío and the Chilean state, 1906-2001 (Septermber 2006).
• Donna Lee Van Cott, From Movements to Parties in Latin America: The Evolution of Ethnic Politics (June 2006).
• Amy Lind, Gendered Paradoxes: Women's movements, state restructuring, and global development in Ecuador (May 2006).
• Thomas Olesen, International Zapatismo: The construction of solidarity in the age of globalization (January 2006).
• Deborah J. Yashar, Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The rise of indigenous movements and the postliberal challenge(January 2006).
• Nancy Grey Postero and León Zamosc, eds., The Struggle for Indigenous Rights in Latin America (April 2005).
• Suzana Sawyer, Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador (April 2005).
• Temma Kaplan, Taking back the streets: women, youth, and direct democracy (July 2004).

14 book reviews posted to H-LATAM, H-Net's Latin American History email list

• David Nugent, The Encrypted State: Delusion and displacement in the Peruvian Andes (September 2019).
• A. Dirk Moses, ed., Empire, Colony, Genocide Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History (October 2012).
• Martin Thomas, Bob Moore, and L. J Butler, Crises of Empire: Decolonization and Europe's imperial states, 1918-1975 (November 2010).
• Jorge Coronado, The Andes imagined: Indigenismo, society, and modernity (June 2010).
• Cynthia E. Milton, The Many Meanings of Poverty: Colonialism, Social Compacts, and Assistance in Eighteenth-Century Ecuador (August 2009).
  
• Eugene Walker Gogol, The Concept of Other in Latin American Liberation: Fusing Emancipatory Philosophic Thought and Social Revolt (December 19, 2004).
• Suzana Sawyer, Crude Chronicles: Indigenous Politics, Multinational Oil, and Neoliberalism in Ecuador (December 19, 2004).
• Steve Striffler, In The Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995 (December 2002).
• David Carey, Jr., Our Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives: Xkib'ij Kan Qate' Qatata' (April 29, 2002).
• Judith A. TeichmanThe Politics of Freeing Markets in Latin America: Chile, Argentina, and Mexico (January 22, 2002).
• Gustavo Gorriti Ellenbogen, The Shining Path: A History of the Millenarian War in Peru (October 2, 1999).
• Ronn F. Pineo, Social and Economic Reform in Ecuador: Life and Work in Guayaquil (February 18, 1997).
• Karen Vieira Powers, Andean Journeys: Migration, Ethnogenesis, and the State In Colonial Quito (September 24, 1995).
• John Charles Chasteen and Joseph S. Tulchin, ed., Problems in Modern Latin American History (March 21, 1995).

10 book reviews in A Contracorriente

• Claudia Zapata Silva, ed., Intelectuales indígenas piensan América Latina (forthcoming).
• Matthew D. Rothwell, Transpacific Revolutionaries: The Chinese revolution in Latin America 10, no. 3 (Spring 2013): 505-509.
• Roberta Rice, The New Politics of Protest: Indigenous mobilization in Latin America's neoliberal era in A Contracorriente 10, no. 1 (Fall 2012): 615-20.
• Thomas Ponniah and Jonathan Eastwood, ed., The Revolution in Venezuela: Social and Political Change Under Chavez in A Contracorriente 9, no. 2 (Winter 2012): 478-84.
• Paulo Drinot, ed. Che's Travels: The making of a revolutionary in 1950s Latin America in A Contracorriente 8, no. 3 (Spring 2011): 318-23.
• Greg Grandin, Fordlandia: The rise and fall of Henry Ford's forgotten jungle city in A Contracorriente 7, no. 3 (Spring 2010): 530-35.
• Margarita Camacho Zambrano, Cuerpos encerrados, cuerpos emancipados: Travestis en el ex penal García Moreno in A Contracorriente 6, no. 1 (Fall 2008): 295-98.
• Rebecca Earle, The Return of the Native: Indians and myth-making in Spanish America, 1810-1930 in A Contracorriente 5, no. 3 (Spring 2008): 225-230.
• Erin E. O'Connor, Gender, Indian, Nation: The Contradictions of Making Ecuador, 1830-1925 in A Contracorriente 5, no. 2 (Winter 2008): 362-366.
• Samuel Brunk and Ben Fallaw, ed. Heroes & Hero Cults in Latin America in A Contracorriente 4, no. 2 (Winter 2007): 273-78.

7 book reviews in Journal of Latin American Studies

• Erin Fitz-Henry, US Military Bases and Anti-Military Organizing: an Ethnography of an Air Force base in Ecuador in Journal of Latin American Studies 49, no. 1 (February 2017): 202-204.
• Mark Goodale and Nancy Grey Postero, ed., Neoliberalism, interrupted: social change and contested governance in contemporary Latin America in Journal of Latin American Studies 47 no. 4 (November 2015): 880-82.
• Carolin Schurr, Performing politics, making space: a visual ethnography of political change in Ecuador in Journal of Latin American Studies 47 no. 2 (May 2015): 441-43.
• Jean Muteba Rahier, Kings for Three Days: The play of race and gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian festival in Journal of Latin American Studies 46, no. 3 (August 2014): 615-17.
• Jill Michelle DeTemple, Cement, Earthworms, and Cheese Factories: Religion and community development in rural Ecuador in Journal of Latin American Studies 46, no. 2 (May 2014): 399-400.
• Salomon, Frank and Mercedes Niño-Murcia, The Lettered Mountain: A Peruvian village's way with writing in Journal of Latin American Studies 45, no. 1 (February 2013): 156-58.
• Andrés Guerrero, Administración de poblaciones, ventriloquía y transescritura in Journal of Latin American Studies 43, no. 2 (May 2011): 362-64.

6 book reviews in Hispanic American Historical Review

• Paulo Drinot, José Carlos Mariátegui o el "cojito genial": Historia y discapacidad en el Perú in Hispanic American Historical Review 104, no. 4 (November 2024): 741–43.
• Christa J. Olson, Constitutive visions: indigeneity and commonplaces of national identity in republican Ecuador in Hispanic American Historical Review 96, no. 1 (February 2016): 169-70.
• Myriam Jimeno, Juan Gregorio Palechor: The story of my life in Hispanic American Historical Review 95, no. 1 (February 2015): 175-76.
• Carlos de la Torre and Steve Striffler, ed., The Ecuador Reader: History, culture, politics in Hispanic American Historical Review 90, no. 4 (November 2010): 730-32.
• José Antonio Lucero, Struggles of Voice: The politics of indigenous representation in the Andes in Hispanic American Historical Review 90, no. 2 (May 2010): 356-57.
• Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes On A Latin American Journey in Hispanic American Historical Review 85, no. 1 (February 2005): 123-25.

6 book reviews in The Americas

• Radoslav A. Yordanov, Our comrades in Havana : Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe, 1959-1991 in The Americas 82, no. 1 (January 2025): 134-36.
• Carmen Martínez Novo, Undoing Multiculturalism: Resource extraction and indigenous rights in Ecuador in The Americas 79, no. 2 (April 2022): 378-80.
• Gabriela Zamorano Villarreal, Indigenous Media and Political Imaginaries in Contemporary Bolivia in The Americas 75, no. 1 (January 2018): 238-39.
• Paul Dosh, Demanding the Land: Urban popular movements in Peru and Ecuador, 1990-2005 in The Americas 68, no. 2 (October 2011): 301-302.
• Nils Jacobsen and Cristóbal Aljovín de Losada, Political Cultures in the Andes, 1750-1950 in The Americas 62, no. 4 (April 2006): 681-83.
• Jo-Marie Burt and Philip Mauceri, ed., Politics in the Andes: Identity, Conflict, Reform in The Americas 61, no. 3 (January 2005): 539-40.

4 book reviews in Bulletin of Latin American Research

• Detlef Nolte and Almut Schilling-Vacaflor, ed., New Constitutionalism in Latin America: Promises and Practices in Bulletin of Latin American Research 34, no. 1 (January 2015): 124-26.
• Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld, Fighting Like a Community: Andean civil society in an era of Indian uprisings in Bulletin of Latin American Research 30, no. 1 (January 2011): 106-107.
• Aldo A. Lauria-Santiago, An Agrarian Republic: Commercial Agriculture and the Politics of Peasant Communities in El Salvador, 1823-1914 in Bulletin of Latin American Research 19, no. 2 (2000): 258-60.
• Rudi Colloredo-Mansfeld, The native leisure class consumption and cultural creativity in the Andes in Bulletin of Latin American Research 19, no. 4 (2000): 572-74.

4 book reviews in Agricultural History

• Elizabeth Henson, Agrarian revolt in the Sierra of Chihuahua, 1959-1965 in Agricultural History 94, no. 1 (Winter 2020): 154-156.
• Aaron Bobrow-Strain, Intimate Enemies: Landowners, power, and violence in Chiapas in Agricultural History in Agricultural History 83, no. 1 (Winter 2009): 139-40.
  
• Elizabeth Dore, Myths of Modernity: Peonage and Patriarchy in Nicaragua in Agricultural History in Agricultural History 82, no. 1 (Winter 2008): 97-98.
• Shannan L. Mattiace, To See With Two Eyes: Peasant Activism & Indian Autonomy in Chiapas, Mexico in Agricultural History 79, no. 1 (Winter 2005): 101-102.

3 book reviews in Latin American Perspectives

• Patricio Herrera González, ed., El comunismo en América Latina. Experiencias militantes, intelectuales y transnacionales (1917-1955) in Latin American Perspectives 47, no. 6 (November 2020): 156-59.
• Eugene Gogol and Latin American Colleagues, Utopia and the Dialectic in Latin American Liberation in Latin American Perspectives 45, no. 6 (November 2018): 179-81.
• Paul Dosh, Demanding the Land: Urban Popular Movements in Peru and Ecuador, 1990– 2005 in Latin American Perspectives 43, no. 1 (January 2016): 266-67.

3 book reviews in Peace and Change

• Jonathan Stevenson, A Drop of Treason: Philip Agee and his exposure of the CIA in Peace and Change 47, no. 3 (July 2022): 295-97.
• James Green, We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian military dictatorship in the United States in Peace and Change 37, No. 2 (April 2012): 326-28.
  
• Orin Starn, Nightwatch: the Politics of Protest in the Andes in Peace and Change 26, no. 2 (April 2001): 270-71.

3 book reviews in American Historical Review

• Margaret Power, Solidarity Across the Americas: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and Anti-Imperialism in American Historical Review 129, no. 1 (March 2024): 313–314
• Kevin Young, Blood of the Earth: Resource Nationalism, Revolution, and Empire in Bolivia in The American Historical Review 123, no. 3, (June 2018): 996–997.
• Ronn F. Pineo, Ecuador and the United States: Useful strangers in The American Historical Review 113, no. 2 (April 2008): 547-48.

2 book reviews in Science and Society

• Kevin Anderson, Marx at the Margins: On nationalism, ethnicity, and non-western societies
• Marta Harnecker, Rebuilding the Left in Science and Society 72, no. 4 (October 2008): 495-97.

2 book reviews in The Latin Americanist

• Daniela Spenser, Stumbling its way through Mexico: the early years of the Communist International in The Latin Americanist 57, no. 3 (September 2013): 110-12.
• John Beverley, Latinamericanism After 9/11 in The Latin Americanist 56, no. 2 (June 2012): 181-82.

2 book reviews in AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples

• Lurgio Gavilán Sánchez, When rains became floods : a child soldier's story in AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples in AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 11, no. 3 (August 2015): 313-14.
• Henry Veltmeyer and James Petras, ed., The New Extractivism: A Post-Neoliberal Development Model or Imperialism of the 21st Century? in AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples 10, no. 4 (December 2014): 434-35.

2 book reviews in Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe

• Javier Sanjinés C, Embers of the past: essays in times of decolonization in Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe 25, no. 2 (July-December 2014): 135-37.
• Gerardo Leibner, El mito del socialismo indígena en Mariátegui in Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina y el Caribe 11, no. 2 (July-December 2000): 176-78.

2 book reviews in Against the Current

• Benjamin Dangl, The Five Hundred Year Rebellion : indigenous movements and the decolonization of history in Bolivia in Against the Current 202 (September/Octoer 2019): 41-42.
• S. Sándor John, Bolivia's Radical Tradition: Permanent revolution in the Andes in Against the Current 155 (November/December 2011): 33-34.

2 book reviews in Journal of American History

• Stuart Schrader, Badges without Borders: How global counterinsurgency transformed American policing in Journal of American History 108, 2 (September 2021): 417.
• Kirk Tyvela, The Dictator Dilemma: the United States and Paraguay in the Cold War in Journal of American History, Volume 107, Issue 2, September 2020, Pages 540–541.

1 book review in Diplomatic History

• James V. Kohl, Indigenous struggle and the Bolivian National Revolution : land and liberty! in Diplomatic History 46, no. 4 (September 2022): 842–44.

1 book review in American Anthropologist

• O. Hugo Benavides, Making Ecuadorian Histories: Four Centuries of Defining Power in American Anthropologist 107, no. 1 (June 2005): 277.

1 book review in Labor

• Salar Mohandesi, Red internationalism: anti-imperialism and human rights in the global sixties and seventies in Labor: Studies in Working-Class History 22, no. 2 (May 2025):108-110.

1 book review in Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos y del Caribe

• Francisco Sánchez López, ¿Democracia no lograda o democracia malograda? un análisis del sistema político del Ecuador, 1979-2002 in Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 89 (October 2010): 141-42.

1 book review in Left History

• Jessica Stites Mor, Transition Cinema: Political filmmaking and the Argentine left since 1968 in Left History 18, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2014): 93-94.

1 book review in Monthly Review

• Mike Gonzalez, In the Red Corner: The Marxism of José Carlos Mariátegui in Monthly Review 71, no. 9 (February 2020): 57-63.

1 book review posted to H-Peace, H-Net email list

• Kristian Gustafson, Hostile Intent: U.S. covert operations in Chile, 1964-1974 (April 2008).

2 book reviews in Upside Down World

• Linda C. Farthing and Benjamin H. Kohl, Evo’s Bolivia: Continuity and Change (July 15, 2014).
• Feliciano Félix Muruchi Poma, Benjamin H Kohl, and Linda Farthing, From the Mines to the Streets: A Bolivian activist's life (September 25, 2013).

1 book review in Council on Hemispheric Affairs

• Waskar Ari, Earth Politics: Religion, Decolonization, and Bolivia's Indigenous Intellectuals (April 8, 2014).

1 book review in Green Social Thought

• Linda C. Farthing and Benjamin H. Kohl, Evo’s Bolivia: Continuity and Change in Green Social Thought 66 (Winter 2015): 18-19.

1 book review in UNISA Latin America Report

• Judith A. Teichman, The Politics of Freeing Markets in Latin America: Chile, Argentina, and Mexico in UNISA Latin America Report (University of South America Centre for Latin American Studies) 18, no. 1 (2002): 65-66.

1 book review in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History

• Amalia Pallares, From Peasant Struggles to Indian Resistance: The Ecuadorian Andes in the Late Twentieth Century in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History.

1 book review in Red River Valley Historical Journal

• Seth Garfield, Indigenous Struggle at the Heart of Brazil: State Policy, Frontier Expansion, and the Xavante Indians, 1937-1988 in Red River Valley Historical Journal (forthcoming).

4 book reviews for the Ecuadorian Studies Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA)

• Christopher Walker, “Spears from all Sides” (Icarus Films, 2019).
• Charles Kleymeyer, Padre Sol, Madre Luna - Inti Taita, Killa Mama - Father Sun, Mother Moon: Cuentos del desarrollo de base pluricultural in Ecuabulletin 1, no. 1 (November 2000), official E-newsletter of the Ecuadorian Studies section of LASA.
• Steve Striffler, In The Shadows of State and Capital: The United Fruit Company, Popular Struggle, and Agrarian Restructuring in Ecuador, 1900-1995, posted to the Ecuatorianistas listserv on March 4, 2002.
• Steven L. Rubenstein, Alejandro Tsakimp: A Shuar Healer in the Margins of History in Ecuadorian Studies / Estudios ecuatorianos No. 2 (Dec. 2002), http://www.yachana.org/ecuatorianistas/journal/2/reviews.html.

2 computer software reviews for History Microcomputer Review

• Intellimation's Andean World software package in History Microcomputer Review 11, no. 1 (Spring 1995): 39-41.
• WorldView Software's Latin American Global Studies Computerized Study Guide in History Microcomputer Review 10: no. 1 (Spring 1994): 61-63.

1 book review in Great Plains Quarterly

• Tiana Bighorse, Bighorse The Warrior in Great Plains Quarterly 12, no. 1 (Winter 1992): 64.

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