He is currently completing a book tentatively titled Dialectical Americas: Compelling Symmetries in New Mexican Chicanx and (Latin) American identities.  Individual chapters consider how Chicanx New Mexicans come to understand their own ethnic/racial identity through Native American, Spanish, Central American, Jewish, Biblical Hebrew, and Mexican immigrant “others.” These divergent and opposing identities not only mutually define distinct alterities but also serve as instructive components of Nuevomexicano "selves" within the context of New Mexico's ethnographic realities and regional creative literature. Moreover, Dialectical Americas poses a twofold intervention. First, it challenges prevailing conceptualizations of ethnic and racial formations in Chicanx Studies and American Studies, critiquing the privileging of individual scales like the transnational, national, or regional, over the more intricate multiscale reality that genuinely shapes subject formation. Second, this book intervenes into popular and scholarly depictions of New Mexican ethnic/racial identity that focus solely on New Mexican regional difference from, for example, recent Mexican immigrants and Native Americans. In the vein of this book, Trujillo is currently completing two related essays on New Mexican crypto-Jewish identity and has written a book chapter on New Mexican Chicanx indigenous identity. He has also begun drafting another book tentatively titled City of Violence: Ciudad Juárez in the Mexican and American Imagination after 1993.

Trujillo currently advises ten graduate students in the American Studies, Chicana and Chicano Studies, and Anthropology departments and mentors the CCS Department’s postdoctoral fellow. He is the American Studies Department’s former Undergraduate Director, and he has already supervised eight doctoral students and seven masters students to the successful completion of their degrees. He teaches graduate seminars in Marxism and cultural interpretation, cultural studies, and ethnography. His undergraduate courses include Introduction Southwest Studies and, in the past, Introduction to Chicana/o Studies and the CCS capstone course titled the Advanced Seminar in Chicana/o Studies. This semester he is teaching a new undergraduate course titled Breaking Bad: TV, Race, and Gender. He currently serves on the Executive Committee of UNM’s faculty union United Academics of UNM, the Legislative Committee of UNM’s Faculty Senate, and the Southwest Hispanic Research Institute’s Executive Committee. He is a member of the San Joaquin Del Rio De Chama Land Grant Association. Over the course of his career, he has received fellowships at the University of Texas, the Colorado College Center for Southwest Studies, and the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe. Trujillo is the author of The Land of Disenchantment: Latina/o Identities and Transformations in Northern New Mexico and the editor of a bilingual novel Some Are Born under a Star/Unos nacen con estrella by the creative writer Jim Sagel. He earned his doctorate in The Borderlands Program in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin under the direction of José E. Limón, the then director of the Center for Mexican American Studies.