Dr. Martinez’s research has been featured by local and national media outlets. She also offers a historical perspective on current events.
2021
- “The Ugly History Behind Those Border Agents Chasing Haitian Migrants on Horseback” – Slate (September 25, 2021)
- “What is critical race theory? Explaining the discipline that Texas’ governor wants to ‘abolish’” – The Texas Tribune (June 22, 2021)
- “In Texas, a struggle to memorialize a brutal lynching as resistance grows to teaching historical racism” – Washington Post (June 3, 2021)
- “Burned from the land: How 60 years of racial violence shaped America” – CNN (May 30, 2021)
- “Historians decry Texas bill that would restrict school lessons on race, racism” – Houston Chronicle (May 20, 2021)
- “Historians, parents say Texas bill limiting instruction about race hurt students” – CBS Austin (May 21, 2021)
2020
- “‘White Supremacy’ was behind child separations – and Trump officials went along, critics say” – NBC News (August 22, 2020)
- “‘A Watershed Moment’: How Scholarship and Activism Finally Toppled a Texas Ranger Statue in Dallas” – Texas Monthly (June 25, 2020)
- “Ayala: San Antonio College moves closer to eliminating Texas Ranger mascot” – San Antonio Express-News (June 25, 2020)
- “The Lone Legislator” – Latino USA (June 17, 2020) Listen to the podcast for this article below
- “A removed statue dredges up racism against blacks, Latinos in Texas Rangers’ History” – NBC News (June 9, 2020)
2019
- “The El Paso shooting is exactly what descendants of a 1915 massacre at the US-Mexico border had warned about” – CNN (August 8, 2019)
- “From El Paso to the War on Terror, the dangers of historical amnesia” – The Intercept (August 7, 2019)
- “El Paso, with deep Mexican American past, rallies amid pain” – Associated Press News (August 7, 2019)
- “Domestic Terrorism in Wake of the Weekend Mass Shootings” – WBUR Boston’s NPR News Station (August 6, 2019) Listen to the podcast for this article below
- “Hate Crime Expert: Crimes spike around Trump’s Election and rhetoric ” – MSNBC | The Beat with Ari Melber (August 6, 2019) Watch the video with this article below
- “‘Erased from Public Memory’: The History of Anti-Latio Violence in the U.S.” – WNYC Studios (August 5, 2019) Listen to the podcast for this article below
- “Mexican Americans faced racial terror from 1910-1920” – Associated Press News (July 26, 2019) Watch the video for this article below
- “Their ancestors were slain a century ago along the US-Mexico border. They say now is the time to retell the horror” – CNN (July 20, 2019)
- “The border wall isn’t just a dividing line — it’s a monument against racial progress” – The Guardian (April 25, 2019)
- “The bloody history of border militias runs deep — and law enforcement is part of it” – The Intercept (April 23, 2019)
- “100 years later, anti-Mexican violence still casts a shadow on Texas” – Austin 360 (April 5, 2019)
- “Considering History: The Role of Women in the Lynching Epidemic” – Saturday Evening Post (March 13, 2019)
- “Lynch Mobs Killed Latinos Across the West. The Fight to Remember These Atrocities is Just Starting” – New York Times (March 2, 2019)
2018
- “Refusing to Forget: Monica Muñoz Martinez Uncovers America’s History at the Border” – The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (November 2018) Watch the video for this article below
- “Remembering The Porvenir Massacre More Than 100 Years Later” – Marfa Public Radio (November 30, 2018) Listen to the podcast for this article below
- “Who Writes History? The Fight to Commemorate a Massacre by the Texas Rangers” – Texas Observer (November 27, 2018)
- “The Secret History of Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas” – Texas Monthly (October 2018)
- “Mob v. Mexicans In Texas History” – KERA-FM (October 22, 2018) Listen to the podcast for this article below
- “Author talks race, History” – The Collegian (October 17, 2018)
- “Texas has history of family separations, deportations” – Austin American-Statesman (September 25, 2018)
- “Fronteras: Massacre In A West Texas Border Town” – Texas Public Radio (September 21, 2018)
- “A New Book Investigates a History of State-Sponsored Violence Against Ethnic Mexicans” – Texas Standard (September 7, 2018) Listen to the podcast for this article below
- “A New History Tears Down The Myth of The Texas Rangers” – Texas Observer (September 4, 2018)
- “The History Behind the Border Crisis” – WNYC Studios (July 12, 2018) Listen to the podcast for this article below
- “The Border and the American Imagination” – The Baffler (July 2, 2018)
- “Porvenir massacre on Texas border haunts descendants 100 years later” – El Paso Times (February 2, 2018)
- “Texans commemorate 100th anniversary of Porvenir Massacre” – Spectrum News 1 (January 28, 2018)
2016
- “America’s Lost History of Border Violence” – Slate (May 5, 2016)
- “Refusing to Forget” – Process History (May 3, 2016)
- “Exhibit to shed light on Mexican-American murders” – Houston Chronicle (February 5, 2016)
Public Writing
- “Borders Don’t Stop Violence-They Create It,” Q&A with historian Karl Jacoby – Public Books (July 7, 2021)
- Testimony for U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship hearing on “Oversight of the Trump Administration Border Policies and the Relationship Between Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric and Domestic Terrorism” (Sept 6, 2019)
- “’The Highwaymen’ Whitewashes Frank Hamer and the Texas Rangers” – Washington Post (March 31, 2019)
- “Border Fears” – Lapham’s Quarterly (October 25, 2018)
- “History Teaches Us Not to Reduce Policing Standards” – Los Angeles Review of Books (May 4, 2017)
