Biography
Degrees
Ph.D. Candidate in History, University of California, Irvine
M.A. in History, University of California, Irvine, 2023
M.A. in Latin American Studies, California State University, Los Angeles, 2021
B.A. in Political Science, California State University, Los Angeles, 2017
Committee
Dr. Renée J. Raphael and Dr. Alex Borucki, Co-chairs
Dr. David H. Colmenares & Dr. Marina Garone Gravier, (Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
Fields
Early Modern Iberian Empire and Colonial Latin America, History of the Book and Print Culture, History of Science and Technology
Research Interests
I research women printers, book history, and the history of science and technology in the early modern transatlantic Iberian world. My research focuses on Mexico and Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with particular attention to women printers’ expanding collaborations with monarchical, inquisitorial, and university institutions, and their role in print production, book circulation, and the production of humanist and scientific knowledge. More broadly, I examine the relationships between women, books, gender, universities, knowledge production, and empire.
Research Support
My research has been made possible through the Clark Predoctoral Fellowship awarded by the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, the Newberry Library, the John Carter Brown Library, the Huntington Library, the BSA-Pine Tree Foundation Fellowship in Hispanic Bibliography, the California Rare Book School Scholarship Award, the University of California Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives “Routes of Enslavement in the Americas” Grant, the Fernando and Olga Niebla Latinx/Hispanic Studies Graduate Fellowship, the Charles & Ann Quilter Graduate Student Award in History, the Diversity Recruitment Fellowship, and the School of Humanities Fellowship.
Teaching
My teaching experience at UC Irvine includes teaching discussion sections in world historical development, innovation, empire, and revolution (History 21A and 21B); colonial American worlds, race, slavery, and empire (History 40A); historical interpretation and historical narratives (History 5); colonial Latin American societies, labor, race, gender, reform, and nation-making (History 70D); the history of sexuality (History 15D); twentieth- and twenty-first-century U.S. history, culture, and power (History 40C); modern European migration, displacement, and citizenship (History 70B); and the history of science, scientific knowledge, and the circulation of ideas (History 60/LPS 60).
