His first book, Cárdenas Compromised: The Failure of Reform in Yucatan, came out in 2001 (Duke University Press). In 2005 he coedited a special edition of the Journal of Latin American Anthropology on Maya identity. Dr. Fallaw is also coeditor of Heroes and Hero Cults in Latin America (University of Texas Press, 2006). Currently he is completing a study of political relations between Catholics and the revolutionary state in Mexico from the end of the Cristero War to 1940.