Graduate Student Directory
- Title
- PhD Candidate
- Teaching Assistant
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- History Department
- Office Location
- Remote work location, via Zoom
- Office Hours Wednesdays, 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
- Mail Stop History Department
Research Interests
Environmental change in Colonial Mexico
Jesuit missionaries in the Spanish Empire
Climate and weather in the 17th and 18th centuries
Early modern sensory history
Biography, Education and Training
Education
M.A., History, UC Santa Cruz, 2020
M.A., Art History, UC Davis, 2015
B.A., Art History, University of Washington, 2012
Instructor of Record
Environmental History of the Early Modern Atlantic World, Department of History, UC Santa Cruz, 2022
Art in the Age of Revolution, Department of Art History, UC Davis, 2018
Landscape, Nature, and Art, Department of Art History, UC Davis, 2017
UC Santa Cruz Teaching Assistant Experience
History 2B: The World Since 1500
History 9: Native American History
History 11A: Colonial Latin America
History 15: U.S. History
History 60: Medical and Scientific Terminology
History 70A: European History, 1500-1815
History 70B: European History, 1815-Present
History 100: Historical Skills and Methods
History 134A: Colonial Mexico
History 151B: Drugs in World History
UC Santa Cruz Service
Graduate Representative, Academic Senate Committee on Library & Scholarly Communication, 2023-2024
Graduate Committee Representative, Department of History, 2022-2024
Conference Organizing Committee, Center for World History, 2022-2023
Mentor, Womxn's Center, 2021-2022
Workshops
Princeton University, Dumbarton Oaks, and the Library of Congress: Missionary Manuscripts in Mesoamerican Languages, 2024
World History Center, University of Pittsburgh: New Approaches to Frontier History, 2022
National Humanities Center: Meaningful Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Classroom, 2022
Instituto de Docencia e Investigación Etnológica de Zacatecas: Classical Nahuatl, 2019-2021
Languages
French
Nahuatl (Classical)
Spanish
Honors, Awards and Grants
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies-Clark Research Fellowship, The Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies & the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, UCLA, 2024
Research Fellowship, The Huntington Library, 2024
Summer Dissertation Fellowship, Department of History, UC Santa Cruz, 2023
Summer Public Fellowship with Tumacácori National Historic Site, The Humanities Institute, UC Santa Cruz, 2023
Summer Dissertation Fellowship, Department of History, UC Santa Cruz, 2022
Thom Gentle Research Award for Environmental History, Center for World History, UC Santa Cruz, 2022
Graduate Student Summer Residency Fellow, National Humanities Center, 2022
Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship, Department of History, UC Santa Cruz, 2021
Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant, Research Center for the Americas, UC Santa Cruz, 2020
Summer Research Fellowship, Department of History, UC Santa Cruz, 2020
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Nahuatl), Center for Latin American Studies, University of Utah and the U.S. Department of Education, 2019
Summer Research Fellowship, The Humanities Institute, UC Santa Cruz, 2019
Regents Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz, 2018-2019
Selected Publications
Review of Defining Nature's Limits: The Roman Inquisition and the Boundaries of Science by Neil Tarrant, Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2024 (forthcoming)
Selected Presentations
"Climate, Evangelization, and the Senses in Colonial Sonora," Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference in Premodern Studies, The Newberry Library, February 2024
"Scents in Colonial Sonora: A Sensory Approach to Early Modern Natural Knowledge," American Historical Association Annual Conference, January 2024
"Climate and Evangelization in the Sonoran Desert, 1687-1768," Western History Association Annual Conference, October 2023
"Weather and the Jesuits in the Spanish Borderlands," Medieval & Early Modern Student Association Conference, Center for Early Global Studies, UCLA, June 2023
"Divine Weather: Climate and Evangelization in Colonial Sonora, 1680-1794," Arizona History Convention, April 2023
"Space, Climate, and Natural Knowledge in the Jesuit Missions of Sonora," USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute: New and Emerging Studies of the Spanish Colonial Borderlands, The Huntington Library, March 2023
Teaching Interests
Early modern world history
History of Catholicism
Environmental history
Colonial Latin America
