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Romero-D铆az, N. (2020). Correspondencia entre la Venerable Sor Mar铆a de Jes煤s de 脕greda y mujeres de la familia de Felipe IV. Archivo Ibero-Americano 80 (290), 33-106,


Rosa, V. & Pinto, C. (2023). Disrupting Data: Developing Technology Integrated Assignments to Teach about Race and Racism. Radical Teacher, 125, 43-53.


Rosa, V. (2021). Colonial Projects: Public Housing and the Management of Puerto Ricans in New York City, 1945鈥1970. In A.Y. Ramos-Zayas and M.M. R煤a (Eds.) Critical Dialogues in Latinx Studies (pp.186-196). NYU Press.


Rosa, R. (2020). 鈥淢i Casa Is Not Su Casa: A Research Reflection.鈥 Meridians 19(2): 278-294. 


Rosa, V. Interview on Qu茅 Onda--video podcast hosted by Mari Casta帽eda. Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZI9TevT79Q


Was interviewed on Boston Public Radio about research she conducted with students in her Latinxs and Housing seminar. This research was also highlighted in an article by WGBH news on March 7, 2022. Additionally, Rosa chaired a session at the Eastern Sociological Society鈥檚 annual conference on March 7 and was invited to present her research on race and public housing in New York City at the New England Consortium for Latina/o Studies on March 25, 2022.


Was invited to speak at the closing session for the Fall 2020 Campus Compact Symposium, 鈥淎dvancing Equity Through Publicly Engaged Scholarship: Transforming Faculty Reward Policies and Practices.鈥 Vanessa also spoke about her research at the Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism Volume 19 symposium and celebration in November 2020.


Roth, J.H. (2019).  Kamikaze Truckers in Postwar Japan. Transfers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Mobility Studies, 9(3), 1-19.


Roth, J.H., Hoko onchi:  Way-finding and the Emergence of Directional Tone-Deafness in Japan, Ethos v. 43 i. 4 (December, 2015):  402-422


Roth, J.H., "Interpreting Minority Experiences of Japan's March 2011 Triple Disasters" (chapter in East Asia and the World, edited by Anne Prescott, M.E. Sharpe).