Education
Duke University, Durham, NC
Doctor of Philosophy in History, expected 2020
Master of Arts in History, 2016
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Master of Arts in Latin American Studies, 2013
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, Magna Cum Laude, 2010
Education
Duke University, Durham, NC
Doctor of Philosophy in History, expected 2020
Master of Arts in History, 2016
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
Master of Arts in Latin American Studies, 2013
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, Magna Cum Laude, 2010
Fellowships and Awards
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2018-2019
2018 2018 2018 2017 2016 2016 2015 2014 2014 2013-2014 2012 2012 2011-2013 2007-2010 |
Bass Instructional Fellowship
Andrew W. Mellon Research Grant Marie L. and William R. Hartland Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library Domestic Dissertation Award, Duke Graduate School Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Anne Firor Scott Award, Duke Graduate School Summer Research Grant, Duke Center for Human Rights Summer Research Grant, Duke Department of History Gender and Race Research Award, Duke Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies Summer Research Grant, Duke Department of History Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Graduate Fellowship Summer Research Grant, Tulane Stone Center for Latin American Studies Richard E. Greenleaf Award for Best Graduate Paper Tulane School of Liberal Arts Fellowship Florida Academic Scholarship, University of Florida |
Publications
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2019
2017 2016 2016 |
"Juana Aguilar: Hermaphroditism and Colonial Courts," in The Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer History, ed. Howard Chiang (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2019) (forthcoming)
Review of Nora E. Jaffary, Reproduction and Its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905 in Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 72:3 (July 2017) “Cooperation and Global Health,” Blog Entry, Duke Human Rights Center (August 4, 2016) “A Suitable Candidate for Global Eradication,” Blog Entry, Duke Human Rights Center (July 25, 2016) |
Workshops, Presentations, and Invited Talks
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2019
2018 2018 2018 2017 2017 2017 2016 2016 2016 2015 2014 2014 2013 2013 2012 |
"How to Preserve an Empire: Smallpox Vaccine in the Age of Revolution," Conference on Latin American History and AHA meeting, Chicago
"As If They Were Ministers of God: Religion and Epidemic Control in Nineteenth-Century Mexico," History of Science Society meeting, Seattle "Freedom from Smallpox: Vaccine and Medical Consent in the Iberian Atlantic World," Public Lecture at the John Carter Brown Library, Brown University "Theaters of Impurity: Medical Consent and the Turn to Vaccination," Tepaske Seminar in Colonial Latin American History, Emory University "To Save One’s Soul: Smallpox Vaccination as a “Divine Preservative,” Vaccines: Values, Present and Past Workshop, Uppsala University "Vaccinating Mexico City: Humanitarian Medicine in the Spanish Empire," European Spring School on the History of Science, Living in Emergency: Humanitarianism and Medicine, Institut Menorquí d’Estudis, Mahon, Menorca "Immunity Politics: The Smallpox Vaccine in Colonial Veracruz," Instituto Tepoztlán para la Historia Transnacional de las Américas, Colonialismos: Legados y Futuros, Tepoztlán, Mexico "A most touching voyage: imperial fantasies and the politics of philanthropy," Latin American Studies Association meeting, New York City “Images and Texts in Medical History" workshop, National Institutes of Health "Bodies in Need of Saving: Medical Philanthropy in the Mexican Enlightenment," Critical Juncture Conference, Emory University "For His Health, For His Remedy: Venereal Disease and the Male Body in Bourbon Mexico,” Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies Annual meeting, Tucson, Arizona “Ritual Healing and Enlightened Eating in 18th Century New Spain,” Duke-UNC Annual CLACS Consortium Conference “Casualties of the Botanical Reconquista: New Spain and the Hispanic Enlightenment," Graduate Student Conference on the Global Gulf, Tulane University “Black Brotherhoods: Confraternities and Mining in Colonial Mexico and Brazil,” XXXIII ILASSA Student Conference, University of Texas at Austin “Colonial Afro-Brazilian Irmandades: Sculpting Identity through Material Culture,” Latin American Studies Graduate Student Conference, Tulane University “Ethnogenesis, Pueblo Status, and Corporate Identity: Nahua and Afro-Mexican Relations in Colonial Mexican Communities,” Latin American Studies Graduate Student Conference, Tulane University |
Conferences Organized
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2015
2013 2012 2012 |
“Staging Sovereignty: Knowledge, Narratives, and Spaces of Governance” Graduate History Conference, Duke University
“Decolonizing the Americas,” Latin American Studies Conference, Tulane University “Exhibiting the Vernacular: Salvaged Art and Urban Space,” Tulane University "Social Justice and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean,” Latin American Studies Conference, Tulane University |
Teaching Experience
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2018
2013- 2016 2015 2015 |
Instructor, "Imperial Laboratories: Post/Colonial Histories of Science, Medicine, and Race," Duke University
Candidate in the Certificate in College Teaching Program, Duke University Bass Connections "History of Global Health" Course Development Team Teaching Assistant, “Women, Gender, and Sexuality in U.S. History," Duke University Graduate School "Teaching Triangles," Duke University |
Working Experience
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2017
2016 2015-2016 2014-2015 2014-2015 2011-2013 2009-2010 2009-2010 |
Fulbright COMEXUS García-Robles Interview Panelist
Research Assistant for Dr. Nicole Barnes Duke University Press, World and Latin American Reader Internship Ph.D. Lab Scholar, Ph.D. Lab in Digital Knowledge, Franklin Humanities Institute Editorial Assistant and Blog Manager, Hispanic American Historical Review Publishing Assistant, Colonial Latin American Review University of Florida Historical Archaeology Field School, Kingsley Plantation Curatorial Assistant, Historical Archaeology Lab, University of Florida |
Certificates
Certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Duke University
Certificate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Duke University
Language
English
Spanish
Professional Membership
American Historical Association
The Conference on Latin American History
History of Science Society
Latin American Studies Association
Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies
Certificate in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies, Duke University
Certificate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Duke University
Language
English
Spanish
Professional Membership
American Historical Association
The Conference on Latin American History
History of Science Society
Latin American Studies Association
Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies