West. His first book, River of Hope: Forging Identity and Nation in the Rio Grande Borderlands (Duke University Press, 2013), explores state formation and cultural change along the Mexico-United States border, and traces changes in ethnicity, citizenship, and gender relations among borderland residents as jurisdiction over the area passed from native peoples to Spain, Mexico, and finally the United States. He is co-editor of the anthology, Major Problems in Latina/o History (Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2014), and author of articles on divorce, regional identity, and immigration that have appeared in the Journal of Women’s History, Estudios Mexicanos/Mexican Studies, and the Journal of American Ethnic History. His longer-term project is a transnational study of the U.S.-Mexican War that examines memory, identity, and civil rights.