Journal Articles

Tracey, P., Garcia P., Punzalan, R. (2023). Recordkeeping, logistics, and translation: A study of homeless services systems as infrastructure. Archival Science.

Andalibi N, Garcia P. (2021). Sensemaking and coping after pregnancy loss: the seeking and disruption of emotional validation online. Proceedings of the ACM Human Computer Interaction, CSCW.

Garcia, P., Fernandez, CH., Okonkwo, H. (2020). Leveraging technology: How Black girls enact critical digital literacies for social change. Learning, Media and Technology.

Cifor, M., Garcia, P. (2020). Gendered by design: A duoethnographic study of personal fitness tracking systems. ACM Transactions on Social Computing, 3, 4, Article 111.

Garcia, P., Fernandez, C., *Jackson, A.(2019). Counternarratives of youth participation among Black girls. Youth & Society.

Garcia, P., *Lueck, J., Yakel, E. (2019). The pedagogical promise of primary sources: Research trends, persistent gaps, and new directions. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 45(2), 94-101.

Garcia, P. (2017). Accessing archives: Teaching with primary sources in K-12 classrooms. TheAmerican Archivist, 80(1), 189-212.

Garcia, P. & Scott, K. (2016). Traversing a political pipeline: An intersectional and social constructionist approach toward technology education for girls of color. InterActions, UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies 12(2).  

Scott, K.A. & Garcia, P. (2016). Techno-social change agents: Fostering activist dispositions among girls of color through a culturally responsive technology program. Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 15(1).  

Garcia, P. (2014). Documenting and classifying labor: the effect of legal discourse on the treatment of H-2A workers.  Archival Science. DOI: 10.1007/s10502-014-9230-4  

Kelty, C., Panofsky, A., Erickson, S., Garcia, P., Currie, M., Crooks, R. & Wood, S. (2014). Seven dimensions of contemporary participation disentangled. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. DOI: 10.1002/asi.23202  

Conference Proceedings

Ericson, B., Garcia, P., Mondisa, J. (2022). Lessons learned from scaling Sisters Rise Up. SIGCSE 2022: Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education V. 1.

Garcia, P., Perez, M., Bork, S., Farrell, D., Ericson, B., and Mondisa, J. (2021). Supporting mutually beneficial near-peer mentoring relationships within computing education programs. Proceedings of the Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT) Conference, May 23-27.

Perez, M. Garcia, P., Ericson, B. (Accepted, 2021). Former students’ perspectives on the value of computing education programs. Proceedings of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) Annual Meeting, June 7-11, 2021.

Garcia, P. (2020).  Centering the identities of girls of color in computational thinking programs.  5th International Conference on Research in Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT), March 11, Portland.

Garcia, P., Scott, K.A. (2020). Learning in libraries: An intersectional analysis of computing identities. Paper to be presented at 2020 at American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, April 17-21, San Francisco. Archived in AERA online paper repository.

Garcia, P., Cifor, M. (2019). Expanding our reflexive toolbox:  Collaborative possibilities for examining socio-technical systems using duoethnography. 22nd ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW), November 7-13, Austin.  

Cifor, M. & Garcia, P. (2019). Inscribing gender: A duoethnographic examination of gendered values in fitness tracker design. Paper presented at Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) 52, January 2019. *Best paper nomination

Garcia, P., Fernandez, CH., *Jackson, A. (2019). Black girls as community change agents: Sustaining participatory practices in STEM learning. Paper presented at 2019 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Toronto, April 2019. Archived in AERA online paper repository.  

Fernandez, CH., Garcia, P. (2019). Counternarratives of STEM participation among Black girls. Paper presented at 2019 American Educational Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting, Toronto, April 2019. Archived in AERA online paper repository.  

Acker, A., Bilal, D., Bowler, L., Garcia, P., Meyers, E. M., & Zhang, Y. (2018). Investigating youth learning and data: Contexts, concepts, and connections. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIST), 55(1), 638-641.