Faculty Publications
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"Towards an Embodied Pedagogy in the Teaching of Latin American Theatre" in Dramatic Interactions: Teaching Literature, Culture, and Language Through Theater. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011.
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Edited Volumes
Isthmian Saberes: Embodied Knowledge and Archival Praxis in América Central, with K. Corinealdi and P. López Oro, NACLA Report on the Americas, Vol. 57, No. 2, Summer 2025.
¿Dónde están? NACLA: Report on the Americas, Vol. 56, Issue 2, Summer 2024.
Peer-Reviewed Articles
"Administrative Errors: Kilmar Ábrego García and the U.S.-El Salvador Carceral Archipelago" Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Vol. 34, Issue 4, 2025, pp. 651-667.
"Panamá, Exhausted" NACLA: Report on the Americas, Vol. 54, Issue 4, 2022, pp. 369-375.
"Shock Mobilities During Moments of Acute Uncertainty" Geopolitics, 2022, pp. 1-24.
"Vital minimums: El Salvador between youth and old age" Latino Studies 19, Issue 4, 2021, pp. 518-540.
"How to Read Equipo Maíz: Cartooning the Political in El Salvador" Radical History Review 141, 2021, pp. 176-202.
"Waterproofing the State: Migration, River-Borders, and Ecologies of Control" Comparative American Studies: An International Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2021, pp. 59-74.
"El Salvador's Hydrosocial Crisis" NACLA: Report on the Americas, Vol. 52, Issue 3, 2020, pp. 317-323.
"Deracination/Elimination: Colonial Terror and the 1930s Race Laws in El Salvador" American Indian Culture and Research Journal, Vol. 42, No. 2, 2018, pp. 39-56.
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Book: La Última Guerra. Cultura Visual de la Guerra contra Paraguay. Buenos Aires, Barcelona: Sans Soleil Ediciones. AAV-CEISS (Área de Antropología Visual, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Centro de Estudios de la Imagen Sans Soleil), 2015.
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The Dressing Room: Backstage Lives and American Film (Rutgers University Press, 2025)
Book Manuscripts
Diasporic Agency: Transnational Racial Leverage and Challenges to Exceptionalism in Brazil (Under Contract with Columbia University Press Series Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past/Present/Future)
Visualizing Black Lives: Ownership and Control in Afro-Brazilian Media (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022)
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
2022 "Latent Blackness: Afro-Brazilian People, History, and Culture in São Paulo, Brazil" in Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 26(3-4): 451-467.
2021 "I Africanize São Paulo: Vision, Race, and Afro-Paulista Visual Culture" in Journal of Global South Studies 38(1): 107-124.
2021 "Satirical Antiracism: Digital Protest Images in Afro-Brazilian Media," in Visual Anthropology Review 37(1): 31-51.
2017 "All Tangled Up: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Mariana Rondón's Bad Hair" in Black Camera 9(1): 47-61.
2017 "Representing Black Girlhood in Brazil: Culture and Strategies of Empowerment" in Communication, Culture, and Critique 10(4): 609-625.
2016 "The Help, Unscripted: Representing the Black Revolutionary Domestic in Afro-Brazilian Media" Feminist Media Studies 16(6): 1043-1056.
2016 "Learning to Transgress: Law 10.639 and Teacher Training Programs in Brazil" Transforming Anthropology 24(1): 70-79.
2015 "'Do I Look Suspicious?': Digital Acts, Narratives of Resistance to Police Violence in Brazil" College Language Association Journal 58(3-4): 286 – 302.
2013 "(En)countering Exceptionalism: Afro-Brazilian Responses to the Rise of Obama." Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies 8(3): 323 – 335.
Edited Volume Chapters and Commentary
2023 "I Africanize São Paulo" in International Journal of Fashion Studies 10(2): 249-53.
2022 "bell hooks's Oppositional Gaze and Black Feminist Film Production in Brazil." In Women's Studies and Communication 45(4): 450-456.
2022 "Afro-Brazilian Creative Workers Speak: Juliana Vicente's Standpoint Cinema." In Women- Centered Film in Brazil: Filmmakers and Protagonists of the Twenty-First Century. Jack A. Draper III and Cacilda M. Rêgo, eds. Albany: SUNY Press, pp. 217 – 232.
2016 "But You (Don't) Look Like an African American: African Diaspora Looking Relations between Brazil and the United States." In Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production: Diaspora and Black Transnational Scholarship in the United States and Brazil. Gladys Mitchell-Walthour and Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 99-111.
2013 "Resistance Televised: The TV da Gente Television Network and Brazilian Racial Politics." In Watching While Black: Centering the Television of Black Audiences. Beretta Smith-Shomade, ed. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, pp. 207 – 219.
Books:
Mixed: Multiracial College Students Tell Their Life Stories, edited book with Andrew Garrod and Robert Kilkenny, Cornell University Press, December 2013.
Mi Voz, Mi Vida: Successful Latino College Students Tell Their Stories, edited book with Andrew Garrod and Robert Kilkenny, Cornell University Press, May 2007.
Selected Articles:
"Finding América: Creating Space and Place for Latinx Children's Books," in The Life & Literary Legacy of Luis J. Rodríguez, edited by J. Metcalf and B. Olguín, Edinburgh University Press Ltd, July 2025.
"How We Get the Work Done: The Invisible Workforce in Art & Design," in Teaching Labor History in Art and Design: Capitalism and the Creative Industries edited by K. Pyun and V. Quan, Routledge Press, June 2024.
"Constructive Disequilibrium and Transformative Pedagogy: Developing Global Citizens in Faraway Spaces," with A. Nalani and A. Garrod, Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, December 2021.
"Out for Immigration Justice: Thinking through Social and Political Change," with D. Diaz-Strong, M. Luna-Duarte, E. Meiners in Youth Resistance Research and Theories of Change edited by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, Routledge Press, Fall 2013.
"Too close to the work/There is nothing right now," with E. Meiners, M. Luna-Duarte, and D. Diaz-Strong, in Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Research with Youth and Communities edited by Django Paris and Maisha T. Winn, Sage Publications, Spring 2013.
"Telling Our Stories, Naming Ourselves: The Lost María in the Academy," in Transforming the Ivory Tower, edited by Brett Stockdill and Mary Yu Danico, University of Hawaii Press, 2012.
"Undocumented Latino Youth: Strategies for Accessing Higher Education," with D. Diaz-Strong, M. Luna-Duarte, E. Meiners in Understanding the Disenfranchisement of Latino Men and Boys: Invisible No More, edited by Pedro Noguera, Aida Hurtado and Edward Fergus, Routledge Press, Fall 2011.
"Purged: Undocumented Students, Financial Aid Policies, and Access to Higher Education," with D. Diaz-Strong, M. Luna-Duarte, E. Meiners, Journal of Hispanic Higher Education, April 2011: vol 10, issue 2, 107 - 119.
See all articles: https://saic.academia.edu/ChristinaGomez
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Machado, M.R. & Healy, M. (2024). Landscape multifunctionality, agroecology and smallholders: A socio-ecological case study of the Cuban agroecological transition. Landscape Research.
Sands, B., Machado, M. R., White, A., Zent, E., & Gould, R. (2023). Moving towards an anti-colonial definition for regenerative agriculture. Agriculture and Human Values, 40(4), 1697-1716.
Machado, M. R. (2022). Smallholder farming for sustainable development: lessons on public policy from the Cuban agroecological transition. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 1-21.
Moulton, A. & Machado, M.R. (2019). Bouncing forward after Irma and Maria: Acknowledging colonialism, problematizing resilience and thinking climate justice. Journal of Extreme Events, 6(1), 1940003.
Fernández, M., Williams, J., Figueroa, G.,Graddy-Lovelace, G., Machado, M. R., Vásquez, L., Pérez, N., Casimiro, L., Romero, G., & Funes Aguilar, F. (2018). New Opportunities, New Challenges: Harnessing Cuba's Advances in Sustainable Agriculture under Normalizing Relations. Elementa Science of the Anthropocene , 6(1), 76.
Machado, M. R. (2018) What's going on with land-use in Cuba?: Disparate data sets and the Cuban agricultural transition. Journal of Land Use Science, 13(4), 439-446.
Machado, M. R. (2017). Alternative to what?: Agroecology, food sovereignty and Cuba's agricultural revolution. Human Geography, 10(3), 7-21.
Former editor of Latino Intersections, on-line academic journal published by Dartmouth College (2002 - 2006)
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Book: Humor and the Eccentric Text in Puerto Rican Literature. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005.
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Books:
Teatro y Cultura de Masas: Encuentros y Debates. México: Escenología, 2010.
Freak Performances: Dissidence in Latin American Theatre. Forthcoming, University of Michigan Press, November 2018.
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"Somos nós, asiáticos brasileiros? Ideologia do branqueamento na brasilidade da diáspora leste-asiática" in Hugo Katsuo and Edylene Severiano, O "perigo amarelo" nos dias atuais: reflexões de uma nova geração, 2023
"'Diário de um detento' e a autoria do Massacre do Carandiru", Textos Híbridos, Vol. 9, Issue 2, 2022, pp. 53-70.
"A mixagem de significações dos Racionais MC's: aspectos estéticos, políticos e religiososo na narrativa do rap" in Giordano Bertelli and Gabriel Feltran (eds.), Vozes à margem: periferia, estética e política, 2017