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
ICE detentions in local jails have history in New York's North Country, The Times Union, 2025.
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