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 | reading proficiency
French | reading proficiency
Book Manuscript
Poverty in a Golden Age: Ideas, Images, and Institutions in the Spanish Empire, 1500–1800 (in progress).
Publications
“The Hermandad de los Negritos of Seville: Race and Power 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 (Leiden: Brill Publishing, under contract).
“Of Power, Pícaros, and Paupers in Golden Age Spain,” in Philip III and the Government of the Spanish Empire, 1598–1621, edited by Héctor Linares, Isabel Enciso Alonso-Muñumer, Rich Lizardo, and Amorina Villarreal Brasca (Leiden: Brill Publishing, under contract).
“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: 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 (Madrid: 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 (Leiden: Brill Publishing, under contract).
As coeditor, Philip III and the Government of the Spanish Empire, 1598–1621, with Héctor Linares, Isabel Enciso Alonso-Muñumer, and Amorina Villarreal Brasca (Leiden: Brill Publishing, under contract).
As coeditor, Hospitales durante el Antiguo Régimen. Instituciones benéfico-asistenciales, siglos XV–XIX, with Paula Barbero and Ana Barrena Gómez (Palermo: 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: 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.