Books, Chapters in Edited Volumes, and Journal Articles

“How to Vaccinate a Fish: Merck, the Pharmaceutical Industry and Developing Surveillance Capitalism within the Blue Revolution.” Development and Change 57, 1 (2026)

“Mobilizing Hope, Fighting for Change: Food Sovereignty Movements and Alliance Making in the United States.” (University of Nebraska Press 2025).

“From “Climate-Smart” to “Climate-Just Agriculture:” International Institutions and Challenging False Solutions to our Ongoing Climate Crisis.” (Routledge 2025)

“Pinballs, religion, and the family: explaining the growth of rightwing transnational activism with a new theory of strategic interaction.” London Review of International Law 2, 13 (2025)

“The Promise of New Agricultural Markets: Addressing Challenges in Domestic and International Agricultural Markets.” (Palgrave Macmillan 2024)

w Ron Hayduk. “Race, the Ballot, and Hegemony: What the Struggle over Immigrant Voting Teaches Us About Rightwing Mobilization in the US.” New Political Science

“From Rent-Seeking to Rent-Producing: Explaining Cargill’s Strategy to Control Value Chains by Proliferating Links within Them.” Agriculture and Human Values.

“The Political Economy of Learning in Agrarian Contention: Transnational Networks and Interracial Alliance Formation.” Contention 11, no. 2 (2023): 57-80.

w/ Jordan Treakle. “From creating to confronting racial hierarchies: The evolving role of the US state in land policy.” Journal of Agrarian Change 23, no. 4 (2023): 687-705.

“Agrarian Crisis in the United States and Pathways to Reform.” (Routledge, 2023).

“Neo-Brandeisians and Marxists Unite!: Reevaluating the Nature of Power and Markets in Competition Policy.” New Political Science 44, no. 3 (2022)

“The Revolutionary Potential of Food Sovereignty.” Rethinking Marxism. (2021).

“Regrounding Critical Theory: Lenin on Imperialism, Nationalism, and Strategy.” International Studies Review (2020)

w/ Marcelo Milan. “The Brazilian Crisis and the New Authoritarianism.” Monthly Review. June 2020.

“Social Movement Consolidation and Strategic Shifts: the Brazilian Landless Movement during the Lula and Dilma Administrations.” Latin American Perspectives 47, 4 (2020).

“The Trajectory of the Right to Food in Brazil: The Debate Between Means and Access.” In Why Human Rights Still Matter in Contemporary Global Affairs.” Ed. Mahmood Monshipouri. Routledge. (2020).

“Lenin’s Critical Engagement with Liberal Democracy: From Opportunism to Self-Determination and Dictatorship.” Theory & Event 22, no. 1 (2019): 44-68.

“Sovereignty and Capitalist Accumulation in Brazil’s Primary Sector.” Latin American Perspectives 46 (2) (2019): 10-26

“Brazil’s Long Revolution: Radical Achievements of the Landless Workers Movement.” University of Arizona Press. (2018).

“The Contradictions of Neo-extractivism and Social Policy: The Role of Raw Material Exports in the Brazilian Political Crisis.” Third World Quarterly 39 (8) (2018): 1656-1674.

“From Hostile Skepticism to Strategic Utilization: How the Brazilian Landless Movement Learned from Repression to use Legislation.” Social Movement Studies 17, no. 2 (2018): 175-188.

“The Changing Terrain of Rural Contention in Brazil: Institutionalization and Identity Development in the Landless Movement’s Educational Project.” Latin American Politics and Society 59, no. 3 (2017): 3-26.

“Agrarian Reform and the Radicalization of Food Politics.” New Politics.
Vol. XVI, No. 3. Summer (2017).

“The Brazilian Crisis: Corruption, Neoliberalism, and the Primary Sector.” Monthly Review Magazine 68, no. 9 (2017): 43-54.

w/ Tarlau, Rebecca eds. Brazilian Agrarian Social Movements. Routledge. (2016).

“Institutionalizing Economies of Opposition: Explaining and Evaluating the Success of the MST’s Cooperatives and Agroecological Repeasantization.” The Journal of Peasant Studies 42, no. 6 (2015): 1087-1107.

w/ Tarlau, Rebecca and Wendy Wolford. “Understanding Rural Resistance: Contemporary Mobilization in the Brazilian Countryside.” The Journal of Peasant Studies. 42, no. 6 (2015): 1069-1085.

“The MST’s Educational Program on a World Stage.” In eds Woods. Brazil in Twenty-first Century Popular Media: Culture, Politics, and Nationalism on the World Stage. Lexington Books. (2014).