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“Architectures of Discretion: Autohoteles and the Fortified Enclaves of Guatemala City.” Environment and Planning C 42(6)2024: 992-1006.
“On the Impracticality of Lists.” Representations 161(1)2023: 1-19.
“Eat or Be Eaten: Motorcycle Taxis in Guatemala City.” Urban Geography 43(4)2022: 483-500.
“Moral Failure: A Jeremiad of the War on Drugs in Guatemala.” Journal for the Royal Anthropological Institute 28(1)2022: 52-70.
“Empty Streets.” Diacritics 49(3)2021: 112-125.
“Terminal Velocity: The Speed of Extortion in Guatemala City.” Environment and Planning A 53(5)2021: 977-991.
“Home Security: Drug Rehabilitation Centres, the Devil and Domesticity in Guatemala City.” Journal of Latin American Studies 52(4)2021: 785-804.
“Architectures of Captivity.” Grey Room (81)2020: 102-121.
“The Unmaking of a Pedophilic Priest: Transnational Clerical Sexual Abuse in Guatemala.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 62(4)2020: 745-769.
“Scam as Survival in Central America.” Co-authored with Anthony W. Fontes. Ethnography 21(1)2020: 137-147.
“Some Reflections on Levinas and Ethics.” Anthropological Theory 20(2)2020:180-189.
“Never Again: Religion, Commodities, and the State.” In The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Material Religion. Edited by Manuel Vasquez and Vasudha Narayan. New York: John Wiley & Sons. 2020. Pp 1020-1042.
“The Scales of Justice: Region, Rights, and Responsibility in St. Louis Missouri.” Co-authored with Bruce O’Neill. In Life Among Planners:Practices, Professionalism and Expertise in the Making of the City. Edited by Jennifer Mack and Michael Herzfeld. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 2020. 163-178.
“On the Aesthetics of Captivity.” History and Anthropology 30(5)2019: 540-545.
“A Forum on Captivity.” Co-authored with Jatin Dua. History and Anthropology 30(5)2019:491-496.
“La Visita: Prisons and Survival in Guatemala.” Co-authored with Anthony W. Fontes. Journal of Latin American Studies 51(1)2019: 85-107.
“Disenfranchised: Mapping Red Zones in Guatemala City.” Environment and Planning A 51(3)2019: 654-669.
“On the Importance of Wolves.” Cultural Anthropology 33(3)2018: 499-520.
“Captivity: A Provocation.” Public Culture. Co-authored with Jatin Dua 30(1)2018: 3-18.
“Espacios de Encarcelamiento en Guatemala.” Co-authored with Anthony W. Fontes. Ecuador Debate 101 2017: 87-97
“Making Do: The Practice of Imprisonment in Postwar Guatemala.” Co-authored with Anthony W. Fontes. Journal of Latin American Geography 16(2)2017: 120-136.
“Caught on Camera.” Public Culture 29(3)2017: 493-514.
“On Hunting.” Critical Inquiry 43(3)2017: 697-718.
“Narcotecture.” Environment and Planning D 34(4)2016:672-688.
“Sex, Gender, and Religion in Latin America.” In Cambridge History of Religion in Latin America. Edited by Virginia Gerrard-Burnett and Paul Freston. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2016. Pp. 525-546
“Politics of Prayer: Christianity and the Decriminalization of Cocaine in Guatemala.” In The Anthropology of Global Pentecostalism and Evangelicalism. Edited by Simon Coleman and Rosalind Hackett. New York: New York University Press. 2015. Pp. 214-247
“On the Importance of Having a Positive Attitude.” Co-authored with Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela. In Violence at the Margins. Edited by Javier Auyero, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, and Philippe Bourgois. New York: Oxford University Press. 2015. Pp. 73-92.
“On Liberation: Crack, Christianity, and Captivity in Postwar Guatemala.” Social Text 32(3)2014: 11-28.
“Politically Unwilling: An Introduction.” Co-authored with Tomas Matza. Social Text 32(3)2014: 1-10.
“Beyond Broken: Affective Spaces and the Study of American Religion.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 81(4)2014: 1093-1116.
“Left Behind: Security, Salvation, and the Subject of Prevention.” Cultural Anthropology 28(2)2013: 204-226.
“Verticality.” Co-authored with Benjamin Fogarty. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 19(2)2013: 378-388.
“Lost and Found: Christianity, Conversion, and Gang Disaffiliation in Guatemala.” In Oxford Handbook of Ethnicity, Crime, and Immigration. Edited by Sandra Bucerius and Michael Tonry. New York: Oxford University Press. 2013. Pp. 860-878.
“The Scales of Justice: Abu Ghraib, The Passion of the Christ, and Responsibility in a Transnational Frame.” In Diaspora and Transnational Studies Companion. Edited by Ato Quayson and Girish Daswani. New York: Blackwell Publishers. 2013. Pp. 428-442.
“Introduction: Further Explorations in Theory and Practice” History of Religions 51(4)2012: 291-298.
“Pastor Harold Caballeros Believes in Demons: Belief and Believing in the Study of Religion.” History of Religions 51(4)2012: 299-316.
“There Is No More Room: Cemeteries, Personhood, and Bare Death.” Ethnography 13(4)2012: 508-528.
“The Soul of Security: Corporatism, Christianity, and Control in Postwar Guatemala.” Social Text 30(2)2012: 21-42.
“The Passion of Guatemala: Space, Temporality, and the Politics of Truth and Resurrection.” Postscripts 5(3)2011: 391-407.
“Delinquent Realities: Christianity, Formality, and Security in the Americas.” American Quarterly 63(2)2011: 337-365.
“Securing the City: An Introduction.” Co-authored with Kedron Thomas and Thomas Offit. In Securing the City: Neoliberalism, Space and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala. Edited by Kevin Lewis O’Neill and Kedron Thomas. Durham: Duke University Press. 2011. Pp. 1-21.
“Hands of Love: Christian Outreach and the Spatialization of Ethnicity.” In Securing the City: Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala. Edited by Kevin Lewis O’Neill and Kedron Thomas. Durham: Duke University Press. 2011. Pp. 165-192.
“The Privatization of Public Space: The Displacement of Street Vendors in Guatemala City.” Co-authored with Rodrigo J. Véliz. In Securing the City: Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala. Edited by Kevin Lewis O’Neill and Kedron Thomas. Durham: Duke Univ. Press. 2011. Pp. 83-102.
“The Reckless Will: Prison Chaplaincy and the Problem of Mara Salvatrucha.” Public Culture 22(1): 67-88.
“I Want More of You: The Politics of Christian Eroticism in Postwar Guatemala.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 52(1)2010: 131-156.
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“But Our Citizenship is in Heaven: A Proposal for the Study of Christian Citizenship in the Global South.” Citizenship Studies 13(4)2009: 333-347.
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“Who is a Christian?: Toward a Dialogic Approach in the Anthropology of Christianity.” Co-authored with William Garriott. Anthropological Theory 8(4)2008: 381-398.
“Facing Risk: Levinas, Ethnography, and Ethics.” Co-authored with Peter Benson. Anthropology of Consciousness 18(2)2007: 29-55.
“Armed Citizens and the Stories They Tell: The National Rifle Association, Masculinity, and Rhetoric.” Men and Masculinities 9(4)2007: 457-475.
“Writing Guatemala’s Genocide: Christianity and Truth and Reconciliation Commissions.” Journal for Genocide Research 7(3)2005: 331-349.