Scholarly and Creative Works
2026
- Carranza, J. A. (2026). One Historical Perspective on the Desexualization of People with Disabilities. In The Resource – Disability: Understanding Ableism, Sexual Violence, and Healthy Sexuality. National Sexual Violence Resource Center. Retrieved from https://www.nsvrc.org/blog_post/one-historical-perspective-on-the-desexualization-of-people-with-disabilities/
2025
- Carranza, J. A. (2025). “Sex Isn’t Just Having Babies…": Sex Education for Children and Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities in the US, 1960-1970s. In The Nursing Clio Reader: Histories of Sex, Reproduction, and Justice (pp. 17–21). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
2024
- Carranza, J. A. (2024, July). Book Review: Opioid Reckoning: Love, Loss, and Redemption in the Rehab State by Amy C. Sullivan. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences.
2023
- Carranza, J. A. (2023). Lorene K. Lane Rogers. In Handbook of Texas. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved from https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/rogers-lorene-katherine-lane
- Carranza, J. A. (2023). Marie Delalondre Dietzel. In Handbook of Texas. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved from https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/dietzel-marie-phelomene-delalondre
- Carranza, J. A. (2023). Helen Darden Thomas. In Handbook of Texas. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved from https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/thomas-helen-darden
- Carranza, J. A. (2023). Ruth Taubert Seeger. In Handbook of Texas. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved from https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/seeger-ruth-mae-taubert
- Carranza, J. A. (2023). Bertha Kruger Smith. In Handbook of Texas. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved from https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/smith-bertha-mae-kruger-bert
2022
- Carranza, J. A. (2022). Tales of the City as Historical Document: HIV/AIDS, Serialization, Urban Landscapes, and Sexuality. In Culture and Medicine: Critical Readings in the Health and Medical Humanities. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Carranza, J. A. (2022). Margaret Greer Harris Gordon Amsler. In Handbook of Texas. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved from https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/amsler-margaret-greer-harris
- Carranza, J. A. (2022). Caro Crawford Brown. In Handbook of Texas. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved from https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/brown-caro-crawford
- Carranza, J. A. (2022). Sonja Eva Singletary. In Handbook of Texas. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved from https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/singletary-sonja-eva
2018
- Carranza, J. A. (2018). Book Review: Arresting Dress: Cross-Dressing, Law, and Fascination in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco by Clare Sears. Not Even Past. Retrieved from https://notevenpast.org/arresting-dress-cross-dressing-law-and-fascination-in-nineteenth-century-san-francisco-by-clare-sears-2015/
- Carranza, J. A. (2018). Jack Taylor Brown. In Handbook of Texas. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved from https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/brown-jack-taylor
2017
- Carranza, J. A. (2017). Book Review: How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS by David France. Not Even Past. Retrieved from https://notevenpast.org/how-to-survive-a-plague-the-inside-story-of-how-citizens-and-science-tamed-aids-by-david-france-2016/
- Carranza, J. A. (2017). Book Review: Loneliness and Its Opposite: Sex, Disability, and the Ethics of Engagement by Don Kulick and Jens Rydström. Anthro Book Forum. Retrieved from https://anthrobookforum.americananthro.org/loneliness-and-its-opposite-sex-disability-and-the-ethics-of-engagement/
- Carranza, J. A. (2017). B.R. Ambedkar and the Dalit Buddhist Movement. In Great Events in Religion: An Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Religious History. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio.
- Carranza, J. A. (2017). Indian Councils Act 1909 (Morley-Minto Reforms). In Great Events in Religion: An Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Religious History. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio.
- Carranza, J. A. (2017). St. Thomas Christians of India. In Great Events in Religion: An Encyclopedia of Pivotal Events in Religious History. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio.
2013
- Carranza, J. A. (2013). Eating Modernity: The Culture of Consumption and the Consumption of Culture at Hemisfair ‘68. Journal Of The Life And Culture Of San Antonio. Retrieved from https://www.uiw.edu/sanantonio/HemisFairConsumption.html