Teoría de la Autoridad Arraigada y el Traslado de la Validación de la Autoridad al Marco Federal en las Repúblicas en Expansión (Theory of Rooted Authority and the Transfer of Authority Validation to the Federal Framework in Expanding Republics) Theresa Avila Bimbela, M.A. Under review, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, 2026

This article introduces two original theoretical concepts to federalism scholarship, grounded in the career of Juan Francisco Reyes, soldado de cuera and alcalde of the Pueblo de Los Angeles. It offers a structural account of how expanding republics relocate the site at which governing authority must be validated, with implications for the study of territorial incorporation, legal harmonization, and the limits of existing federalism theory.

Reclassifying Nursing Education as STEM: A Policy Position Paper Theresa Avila Bimbela, M.A., Grants Consultant, TAB Professional Services, LLC January 2026

This policy position paper argues that nursing education meets established STEM criteria and that its exclusion from STEM classification represents a structural funding barrier limiting educational capacity and workforce development.

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