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• Faculty Development Leave (08/01/2021-08/31/2021)
• Paper Award - Southwestern Sociological Association (11/01/2019)
• UTEP Academy of Distinguished Teachers - UTEP (04/01/2019-04/30/2019)
• UT Regents Outstanding Teaching Award - University of Texas System (08/24/2016)
• Paper Selected for Border Studies Working Paper Series - CIBS and Graduate School (03/30/2016)
• Mentoring Award - Building Scholars and the College of Liberal Arrs (06/01/2015)
• Faculty Marshal for Graduate School Fall 2014 - Graduate School (12/13/2014)
• Chapter in Book Awarded the Gold Award - Association for Borderland Studies (11/01/2014-11/30/2014)
• Book Chapter in Honorable Mention in the ASA Human Rights Section’s Gordon Hirabayashi Book Award - American Sociological Association Human Rights Section (08/01/2014-08/31/2014)
• Faculty Award - Rainbow Miners (05/01/2009-05/31/2009)

• Ph D in Sociology, Texas A&M University (2004)

• Citizenship profiling and diminishing procedural justice: local immigration enforcement and the reduction of police legitimacy among individuals and in Latina/o neighbourhoods Ethnic and Racial Studies 44 1 (2021), Maria C. Morales, Theodore R. Curry.
• Explaining the cultural retention-delinquency relationship using differential support and coercion theory: A study of native-born and immigrant Latino youth. Social Science Quarterly 101 2 (2020), Egbert Zavala, Theodore R. Curry, Maria C. Morales.
• Seeking the American Dream along the United States-Mexico Border Practicing Anthropology 10 3 (2018), Maria C. Morales, Juan Mendoza.
• The Influence of Sexual Racism on Erotic Capital Springer International Press (2018), Jesus Smith , Maria Cristina Morales, Chong-Suk Han.
• Variations in Citizenship Profiling by Generational Status: Individual and Neighborhood Characteristics of Latina/ os Questioned by Law Enforcement About Their Legal Status Race and Social Problems 10 4 (2018), Maria C. Morales, , Theodore R. Curry.
• Racial Constructions among Men Who Have Sex with Men: The Utility of the Latin Americanization Thesis on Sexual Partner Selection Issues in Race & Society: An Interdisciplinary Global Journal (in press), Jesus Smith , Maria C. Morales.
• Why is Family Violence Lower Among Mexican Immigrants? The Protective Features of Mexican Culture Journal of Family Violence 33 (2018), Theodore R. Curry, Maria C. Morales, Egbert Zavala, Jorge L. Hernandez.

• Citizenship Profiling and Latina/o Perceptions of Police Harassment (2021), Volume Zoom, Maria C. Morales.
• Latina/os and Perceptions of Police Harassment (2021), Volume Virtual , Maria C. Morales, Crystal Rodriguez.
• Latinos in the U.S. Diversity and Change (2021), Maria C. Morales.
• Art + Labor (2020), Volume El Paso-Juarez, Jessica L. Tolbert, Maria C. Morales, Jane Terrazas, Nancy Plankey-Videla.
• Author Meets Critic: Durable Ethnicity (2019), Volume San Diego , Maria C. Morales.
• Citizenship Profiling and Diminishing Police Legitimacy: A Multilevel Study of Trust and Cooperation with Police in an Era of Heightened Local Immigration Enforcement (2019), Volume San Diego, Maria C. Morales, Theodore R. Curry.
• The Influence of Citizenship Profiling on Police Legitimacy (2019), Volume San Diego, CA, Maria C. Morales.
• El Paso as a Safe City (2019), Volume El Paso, Maria C. Morales, Theodore R. Curry.
• The Influence of Citizenship Profiling on Policing: A Multi-level Study in Trust in Police Effectiveness (2019), Volume New York City , Maria C. Morales.
• School Closures in the Barrio (2019), Maria C. Morales.
• What is Your Citizenship Status? Citizenship Profiling by Law Enforcement (2019), Volume College Station, TX, Maria C. Morales.
• Student Placement in At-Risk Schools: The Role of Mental Health and Ethnicity (2018), Volume Orlando, FL, Gisselle Garcia, Maria C. Morales.
• Mothering on the Border (2018), Volume El Paso, TX, Maria C. Morales.
• English-Spanish Linguistic Acculturation and Occupational Access at the U.S.-Mexico Border (2018), Volume Tarragona, Spain , Maria C. Morales.
• Madres Fronterizas: Parenting in the Backdrop of Oppressive Structures (2018), Volume San Antonio, Texas, Maria C. Morales.

• Air Quality Assessment: International Bridge of Americas, El Paso, Texas
• Research Collaborations with Restrictive Micro-Data