Peer-Reviewed Articles

Martínez, Caroline. 2025. “Indigenous Identity and Struggles for State Recognition in Ecuador.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, online first.

*Graduate Student Article Award, Sociology of Indigenous Peoples and Native Nations Section of the American Sociological Association.

*A. Kimball Romney Award for Outstanding Graduate Paper, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine.

Martínez, Caroline, Edward Telles, and Florencia Torche. 2025. “From Language to Self-Identification: Indigenous Classification in the Americas.” Social Forces 104(4):1630–51.

Polletta, Francesca, Debra Boka, Caroline Martínez, and Mutsumi Ogaki. 2025. “Social Movements in the Commercial Public Sphere: How Women’s Magazines Popularized Second-Wave Feminism.American Journal of Sociology 130(5): 1263–1314.

*Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Article Award, Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section, American Sociological Association.

*Clifford Geertz Prize for Best Article, Culture Section, American Sociological Association.

*Honorable Mention for Outstanding Article Award, Conflict, Social Action, and Change Division, the Society for the Study of Social Problems.

Martínez, Caroline.  Revise and Resubmit. “Indigenous and Latinx? How Indigenous Migrants Navigate Latinx Identity and Belonging.”

Manuscripts in Progress

 “Transnational Indigeneities: How Indigenous Migrants Understand the American Indian or Alaska Native Category.”

“The Latinization of American Indians in the U.S. Census: 1980-2021.”

Book Chapters and Reviews

Telles, Edward and Caroline Martínez. 2024. “Racial Inequalities in the Americas”. Pp. 80-99 in Handbook on the Sociology of Education, edited by Berends, Mark, Barbara Schneider, and Stephen Lamb. Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE.

Martínez, Caroline. 2024. Indigenous Peoples and Borders, edited by Sheryl Lightfoot and Elsa Stamatopoulou. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2359078

Other Writing

Martínez, Caroline. 2017. “Formation of Female Indigenous Leaders in the Highlands of Ecuador.” The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Journal 2016. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Martínez, Caroline. 2015. “Correa's Regime Challenged: Violent Reaction Towards Indigenous Uprising in Ecuador.” Change Magazine. Retrieved September 30, 2015 (http://change-magazine.org/2015/09/correas-regime-challenged/).