In the last years she has published two books, Working Women into the Borderlands (also translated into Spanish) and most recently For a Just and Better World: Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938. She also has co-edited a volume on Reverberations of Racial Violence: Critical Reflections on the History of the Border.
Dr. Hernandez has won a Fulbright fellowship to continue her research on the borderlands, and significantly she was a co-founder and has been involved in a non-profit public history project, “Refusing to Forget.” Its mission is to reach out to the public with its website (refusingtoforget.org) and promote photography, historical markers, documentaries, and museum exhibits. From 2023 to 2025 the organization is sponsoring a traveling exhibit, “Life and Death on the Border 1910-1920.” Op-Ed pieces and articles about their research have appeared in many venues, including the Austin-American Statesman, Houston Chronicle, Washington Post, and Time magazine.
Texas A&M has supported her research by awarding her a Chancellor Enhancing Development and Generating Excellence in Scholarship, or the EDGES Fellowship. She is at work on her third research monograph on transnational state violence thanks to the EDGES fellowship and a 2019 Fulbright fellowship.