writing for a public audience:
Trump’s Plan for Mass Detention at Guantánamo Has Happened Before. It Was a Disaster. - Teen Vogue
How Texas Jails Built Migrant Incarceration - Texas Observer
The Past and Present of Immigration Detention: Your Questions Answered - Bolts Magazine
A Nation of Imprisoned Immigrants - Inquest
The China Business - HNN
Family Separation Just the Latest Problem for Migrant Kids in U.S. - TIME
The Forgotten Tale of How America Converted its 1980 Olympic Village into a Prison - Atlas Obscura
Where is Medieval America Now? - Atlas Obscura
'What a Christmas Present! Deportation!’: The Revealing History of Ellis Island’s Holiday Parties - Atlas Obscura
Ellis Island’s Final Act - Atlas Obscura
Notes on Detention Camp - Topic
The Almost Refugee Crisis of the 1984 Olympics - History
The Rise and Fall of the 'Girl Mayors' - Atlas Obscura
The Secret History of the White Trains - History
media & publicity:
Briefly Noted, The New Yorker, 2024
Inside America’s Booming Immigration Detention Industry, Financial Times, 2025.
ICE HQ in S.F.’s Financial District has an 80-year history of detaining immigrants, Mission Local, 2025.
ICE Has Always Been Bad. This is Worse. Splinter, 2025.
Interview with The Source, Texas Public Radio, 2025
Interview with Andrew Free, #DetentionKills, 2025
Interview with the Australian Broadcasting Channel, 2025.
Guantánamo’s Status as ‘Not US’ Is Part of Its Appeal, Bloomberg Businessweek, 2025.
‘Perverse’ Incentives: How Local Governments Might Cash In on Trump’s Migrant Detention, The Marshall Project, 2025
Interview with El País, 2024 / en Español
The Migrant’s Jail: New Books Network Podcast, 2024
Brianna Nofil on The Migrant’s Jail, PUP Ideas Blog, 2024
With Good Reason, National Public Radio, 2024
A Conversation About the NPR Podcast “White Lies” at the University of Miami, UM Media, 2022
How History Is Repeating Itself for Haitian Migrants Trying to Enter the U.S, Time, 2021
W&M history professor recognized by Society of American Historians, W&M News, 2021
Detention by Design Podcast, WLRN Public Radio, 2020
How Immigration Detention Became a Government Headache, Duke Today, 2019
CREW sues NARA to halt ICE destruction of detainee records, 2019
Why the 1980 Olympic Village Is Now a Prison, Smithsonian Magazine, 2016