I'm a PhD student in the History Department at Duke University, where I work on Latin American cultural and intellectual history. My research interests include the history of philanthropy, medicine, natural history, science, technology, and global health.
My dissertation, titled "Brazo-a-Brazo: Humanitarian Medicine and the Preservation of Empire, 1767-1871" traces the introduction of new medical techniques (including inoculation and vaccination) and asks how scientific and religious debates about health and aid shaped the practice of medicine and public health in Mexico through the late colonial and early republican periods.
Before graduate school, I worked as a curatorial assistant and archaeologist at the Kingsley Plantation, the home of Zephaniah Kingsley and his wife, Anna Madgigine Jai, a Senegalese woman who was purchased by Kingsley as a slave and freed in 1811. The work I focus on now—tracing ideas and connections across the Spanish Atlantic—is yet animated by my anthropological training and my curiosity about the outer spaces of empire.
I am a member of the Duke Digital History Working Group and a co-founder of Duke HAW (Historians are Writers), a group committed to thinking deeply about creative writing in the world of academia and beyond.
My current scholarly projects also include an upcoming exhibit at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library on the Enlightenment in Latin America: the Legacy of John Tate Lanning.
My dissertation, titled "Brazo-a-Brazo: Humanitarian Medicine and the Preservation of Empire, 1767-1871" traces the introduction of new medical techniques (including inoculation and vaccination) and asks how scientific and religious debates about health and aid shaped the practice of medicine and public health in Mexico through the late colonial and early republican periods.
Before graduate school, I worked as a curatorial assistant and archaeologist at the Kingsley Plantation, the home of Zephaniah Kingsley and his wife, Anna Madgigine Jai, a Senegalese woman who was purchased by Kingsley as a slave and freed in 1811. The work I focus on now—tracing ideas and connections across the Spanish Atlantic—is yet animated by my anthropological training and my curiosity about the outer spaces of empire.
I am a member of the Duke Digital History Working Group and a co-founder of Duke HAW (Historians are Writers), a group committed to thinking deeply about creative writing in the world of academia and beyond.
My current scholarly projects also include an upcoming exhibit at the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library on the Enlightenment in Latin America: the Legacy of John Tate Lanning.
