His current academic interests include youth cultures, education, gender, and juvenile justice. Dr. Mora has published in Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, Gender and Society, Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, Perspectives on Urban Education, and ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America. His work is included in The Phenomenon of Obama and the Agenda for Education (Information Age Publishing, 2011), Latina / Chicana Mothering (Demeter Press, 2011), Great Lives from History: Latinos (Salem Press, 2012), and Lost Border(Arte Público Press, 2013). In addition, his fiction is included in Latinos in Lotus Land: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern California Literature (Bilingual Press, 2008) under thenom de plume Victorio Barragán.