• I hold a Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in International Relations from El Colegio de México. As a historian of Latin American cities, I am broadly interested in the social, political, and cultural forces that shaped urbanization in the twentieth century. I am currently writing a book that interrogates Mexico City’s 20th century urban transformation and places it within a global flow of ideas about cities and urbanization. At Trinity, I teach classes on Latin American History, Mexican History, and Urban History, in Latin America and the world.

    • Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago
    • B.A. in International Relations from El Colegio de México
    • “From the ‘Horseshoe of Slums’ to Colonias Proletarias: The Transformation of Mexico City’s ‘Housing Problem,’ 1930-1960,” Comparativ. Journal of Global History and Comparative Social Research 30, no. 1/2 (2020): 111-27.
    • “A Global History of Slums, Shantytowns, and Improvised Cities,” Journal of Urban History. Prepublished June 1, 2020 (Online before print).
    • “Mexico City as an Urban Laboratory: Oscar Lewis, the ‘Culture of Poverty,’ and the Transnational History of the Slum.” Journal of Urban History 45, no. 4 (2019): 813-830. 
    • “Memoria de la Guerra Civil española: en torno al trasfondo y derivas de la ‘Ley de la Memoria Histórica’ de 2007.” Foro Internacional 199, no. 1 (2010): 63-87.
    • Mexican History
    • Latin American History
    • Urban History
    • FYE: Inventing Mexico
    • Latin American Cultural Tradition
    • Modern Mexico
    • American Migrant Cities
    • Urban History Seminar
    • Postdoctoral Fellowship, International Institute (UCSD) 
    • Predoctoral Fellow, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies (UCSD) 
    • Mellon Dissertation Fellowship 
    • Teixidor Fellowship (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)