Curriculum Vitæ.

Education

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
M.A., University of Pennsylvania
B.A., Yale University

Languages

English | native fluency
Spanish | native fluency
Italian | working proficiency
Portuguese | working proficiency
French | reading proficiency

Book Manuscript

Poverty in a Golden Age: Ideas, Images, and Institutions in the Spanish Empire, 15001800 (in progress).

Publications

“The Black and Brown Brotherhoods of Seville: Negotiating Race and Religion in Early Modern Iberia,” in The Contractual Monarchy of the Iberian World, c. 1500–1700: Negotiating Power and Status in the Spanish Empire, edited by Héctor Linares and Rich Lizardo (Brill Publishing, forthcoming).

“Of Power, Pícaros, and Paupers in the Time of Philip III,” in Philip III and the Spanish Empire: Governance, Society, and Culture in an Age of Transformations, 1598–1621, edited by Isabel Enciso, Héctor Linares, Rich Lizardo, and Amorina Villarreal (Brill Publishing, under review).

“La centralización de las instituciones caritativas después del Concilio de Trento,” in Hospitales durante el Antiguo Régimen. Instituciones benéfico-asistenciales, siglos XV–XIX, edited by Paula Barbero, Ana Barrena Gómez, and Rich Lizardo, 149–68 (Palermo University Press, 2022).

“Los engaños y desengaños sociales del Siglo de Oro. María de Zayas y sus novelas,” in Élites en transición. Relaciones, reacciones, representaciones y estrategias de los grupos privilegiados entre los siglos XV y XX, edited by Alejandro Espejo Fernández et al., 185–99 (Editorial Dykinson, 2022).

As coeditor, The Contractual Monarchy of the Iberian World, c. 1500–1700: Negotiating Power and Status in the Spanish Empire, with Héctor Linares (Brill Publishing, forthcoming).

As coeditor, Philip III and the Spanish Empire: Governance, Society, and Culture in an Age of Transformations, 1598–1621, with Isabel Enciso, Héctor Linares, and Amorina Villarreal (Brill Publishing, under review).

As coeditor, Hospitales durante el Antiguo Régimen. Instituciones benéfico-asistenciales, siglos XV–XIX, with Paula Barbero and Ana Barrena Gómez (Palermo University Press, 2022).

As cotranslator, Political Thought in Portugal and Its Empire, c. 1500–1800, edited by Pedro Cardim and Nuno Gonçalo Monteiro (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Research Interests and Expertise

Early-modern Spain; Spanish empire; Colonial Latin America; poverty, charity, and poor laws; theories and practices of punishment; national, cultural, religious, and ethnic identities; intellectual, religious, and cultural history.