Additional Campus Affiliations
Associate Professor, History
Highlighted Publications
Diaz, M. A. (2024). A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War–Era Gulf South. (UnCivil Wars). University of Georgia Press.
Diaz, M. A. (2019). At the Center of Southern Empire: The Role of Gulf South Communities in Antebellum Territorial Expansion. In J. L. Bryan Jr (Ed.), Inventing Destiny: Cultural Explorations of US Expansion (pp. 229-245). University Press of Kansas. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvqsf3n3.16
Diaz, M. A. (2018). To Carry That Burden: The Texas Cart War and the Place of Mexican Laborers in the Southern Landscape, 1854–1857. In M. Hild, & K. L. Merritt (Eds.), Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power (pp. 63-77). University Press of Florida. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvx07731.8
Diaz, M. A. (2016). To Conquer the Coast: Pensacola, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Construction of American Imperialism, 1820-1848. The Florida Historical Quarterly, 95(1), 1-25. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24769295
Recent Publications
Diaz, M. A. (2024). A Continuous State of War: Empire Building and Race Making in the Civil War–Era Gulf South. (UnCivil Wars). University of Georgia Press.
Diaz, M. A. (2022). Review: C.M. Wolnisty's A Different Manifest Destiny: U.S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South America. The Journal of the Civil War Era, 12(1), 120-122. https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2022.0011
Diaz, M. A. (2019). At the Center of Southern Empire: The Role of Gulf South Communities in Antebellum Territorial Expansion. In J. L. Bryan Jr (Ed.), Inventing Destiny: Cultural Explorations of US Expansion (pp. 229-245). University Press of Kansas. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvqsf3n3.16
Diaz, M. A. (2018). Review: D. Liles and A. Boswell's (eds.) Women in the Civil War: Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi. Civil War History, 64(3), 314-316. https://doi.org/10.1353/cwh.2018.0025
Diaz, M. A. (2018). Review: P. Guardino's The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War. The Journal of the Civil War Era, 8(3), 526-528. https://doi.org/10.1353/cwe.2018.0054