Authored books
- Contemporary Latin American Revolutions (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2022).
- The CIA in Ecuador (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020).
- The FBI in Latin America: The Ecuador Files (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017).
- Twentieth-Century Latin American Revolutions (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2017).
- ¡Pachakutik! Movimientos indígenas, proyectos políticos y disputas electorales en el Ecuador (Quito: FLACSO/Editorial Abya Yala, 2015). Download PDF of book
- Pachakutik: Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011; updated paperbacked edition, 2012).
- Historia agraria y social de Cayambe, co-authored with Silvia Tutillo (Quito: FLACSO - Abya Yala, 2009). Download PDF of book
- Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador’s Modern Indigenous Movements (Durham, Duke University Press, 2008).
- Global Democracy and the World Social Forums, co-authored with Jackie Smith, Marina Karides, Marc Becker, Dorval Brunelle, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Donatella della Porta, Rosalba Icaza, Jeffrey Juris, Lorenzo Mosca, Ellen Reese, Peter Jay Smith, Rolando Vázquez (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2008; 2d 2014 edition).
- Mariátegui and Latin American Marxist Theory, Latin American Series, No. 20 (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Monographs in International Studies, 1993).
Edited books
- Proceedings of the First Latin American Communist Conference, June 1929 (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming).
- Transnational Communism across the Americas, edited with Margaret Power, Tony Wood, and Jacob Zumoff (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, forthcoming).
- Rethinking Latin American Social Movements: Radical Action from Below, edited with Richard Stahler-Sholk and Harry E. Vanden (Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2014).
- Indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorians Facing the Twenty-First Century (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013).
- Cases of Exclusion and Mobilization of Race and Ethnicities in Latin America (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013).
- Associate editor, Native Peoples of the World: An encyclopedia of groups, cultures, and contemporary issues (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2013).
- José Carlos Mariátegui: An Anthology, edited and translated with Harry Vanden (Kharagpur, West Bengal, India: Cornerstone Publications, 2013).
- José Carlos Mariátegui: An Anthology, edited and translated with Harry Vanden (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2011).
- Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador, co-edited with A. Kim Clark (Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007).
Class projects and popular education books
- Historians of the Oval Table, papers from Senior Seminar in History (Truman State University, Spring 2011).
- The Panama Experience, by IAI Participants (Spring 2010).
- Stories from a Semester in Ghana (August - December 2009).
- Narrating the Past, papers from Senior Seminar in History (Truman State University, Fall 2008).
- Voices of Milan, a class project of students in Marc Becker’s Junior Interdisciplinary Seminar (JINS) on Race, Class, and Gender in Latin America (Truman State University, Fall 2007).
- A Particular Resistance: A Solidarity Delegation Report Back on Social Justice Movements in Oaxaca, co-authored popular education book with Gwendolyn Meyer (Inverness, California: Vision Road Publishing, 2007).