Writing
Public and Digital Scholarship
A brief excerpt about my research in Las cosas tienen vida, a podcast that brings together objects and research stories from Spanish-speaking scholars- "An experiential approach to the Archive of the Indies"[Part 1] and [Part 2], Not Even Past, January 2025. Public History Article.
- “Ayahuasca: Amazonian Plant Lessons”, Dumbarton Oaks, Plant Humanities Lab, July 2022. Co-authored Public History Article.
- “Los conquistadores invisibles”, Letras Libres, No. 252, December 2019. Public History Article in Spanish.
- A Witch in New Spain, May 2019. Public History Website about an eighteenth-century report on withcraft in Central Mexico. Document transcription is accompanied by two blogs that contextualize the report:
- “Setting Materia Medica in Place: Apothecary Shops in Eighteenth-Century New Spain”, November 2017 (Updated October 2026). Digital showcase made in StoryMaps.
"Creole Intellectuals Against the Devil and Idolatry"
"The Actual Craft of a Witch, Explained through Objects"
Listed in The Octo Archive, Blogging Early America
Academic Scholarship
- “When Nopales and Papers Proliferate: Reading Knowledge, Politics, and Ecologies in Cochineal Cultivation Visual Culture (1599-1620)”, Article under revision for resubmission
- Book Review: Carlos Marichal and David Pretel (Eds.), "Colours, Commodities and the Birth of Globalization: A History of the Natural Dyes of the Americas, 1500–2000", Hispanic American Historical Review. 106 (2): 317–318. doi:10.1215/00182168-12333859.
- Book Review: Bradley Skopyk, “Colonial Cataclysms: Climate, Landscape, and Memory in Mexico’s Little Ice Age”, Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. 77, no 1 (2022), 176–78. doi:10.1017/ahss.2022.56. (trans. Laurent Vannini)