I am a sociocultural anthropologist with regional expertise in Latin America. I work with oral narratives, historical documents, visual records, and material culture to examine processes of state formation, nation-building, and collective remembrance in post-revolutionary and contemporary Mexico. My work is located in the multidisciplinary field of Latin American studies and in the subfields of political anthropology, historical anthropology, and visual anthropology. I completed my undergraduate education in anthropology and archaeology in Mexico before obtaining an MA in museum studies from New York University and a PhD in anthropology with a concentration in Latin American studies from Cornell University. Prior to coming to Lafayette College in 2016, I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University.

My first book, Visible Ruins: The Politics of Perception and the Legacies of Mexico’s Revolution, will be released this spring by the University of Texas Press.

Image Credit: Detail, Letter, Comité  Ejecutivo Agrario de la Congregación de Agua Dulce, 1923, Archivo General del Estado de Veracruz, Comisión Agraria Mixta, Expediente 71, Papantla.