books
Men of the Leeward Port: Veracruz’s Afro-Descendants in the Making of Mexico
Under Contract with University of Alabama Press
Articles
Malfavon, Alan. “Loyalty, Subjecthood, and Violence: Veracruz’s Afro-Descendants in the Early Mexican War of Independence, 1812–1813.” The Latin Americanist 67, no. 4 (2023): 357–98.
Edited Volumes
“Power and Belonging: The Rise, Fall, and Erasure of José Antonio Martínez in Veracruz’s Early War for Independence.”
Forthcoming in 2025 in Coming into View: Afro-Mexican Lives in the Long Nineteenth Century under contract with Cambridge University Press
selected honors & awards
2024-2025 Huntington Library Short-Term Fellow- Huntington Library
2023- Nominated for the Gonzalo Aguirre Beltrán Medal for the Study of Afro-Mexican History and Culture- IVEC (Instituto Veracruzano de la Cultura)
2023- David G. Pollart Center for Arts and Humanities- Washington State University
2022- LASA Nineteenth Century Studies Section Best Dissertation Award Honorable Mention- LASA (Latin American Studies Association)
2021- Lindon Barret Award for Black Studies – University of California, Riverside
2021- University Teaching Certificate- University of California, Riverside
2020-2021 Center for Ideas and Society, Global 19th Century Fellow- University of California, Riverside
2019-2020 Huntington Library Short-term Fellow- Huntington Library