Graduate Student Directory

- Title
- Ph.D. Candidate
- Graduate Student Researcher, Center for Cultural Studies
- Division Humanities Division
- Department
- History Department
- Affiliations History of Art/Visual Culture, Humanities Institute
- Office Location
- Humanities Building 1, Room 428
- Office Hours Spring 2022: By Appointment
- 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 century
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
UCSC Teaching Assistant Experience:
HIS 2B: The World Since 1500
HIS 9: Introduction to Native American History
HIS 11A: Colonial Latin America
HIS 70A: Modern European History, 1500-1815
HIS 70B: Modern European History, 1815-Present
HIS 100: Historical Skills and Methods
HIS 134A: Colonial Mexico
HIS 151B: Drugs in World History
Instructor of Record:
AHI 130: Landscape, Nature, and Art
(Department of Art History, UC Davis)
AHI 183A: Art in the Age of Revolution
(Department of Art History, UC Davis)
INTD 123: History of Western Architecture (Department of Design, CSU Sacramento)
Honors, Awards and Grants
2022 Thom Gentle Endowment for Environmental History, Center for World History and the Department of History, UC Santa Cruz
2022 Graduate Student Summer Residency Fellow, National Humanities Center
2021 Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship, Department of History, UC Santa Cruz
2020 Tinker Foundation Field Research Grant, Research Center for the Americas, UC Santa Cruz
2020 Summer Research Fellowship, Department of History, UC Santa Cruz
2019 Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Nahuatl), Center for Latin American Studies, University of Utah
2019 Summer Research Fellowship, The Humanities Institute, UC Santa Cruz
2018-2019 Regents Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz
2013-2014 First Year Fellowship, Department of Art History, UC Davis
2012 Honors Citation, Department of Art History, University of Washington
Teaching Interests
Early modern world history
History of Christianity
Environmental history
Colonialism and post-colonialism
Gender, race, and labor in the early modern period
Teaching Workshops and Certificates:
Alliance for Learning in World History and the World History Center, University of Pittsburgh: "New Approaches to Frontier History" (2022)
National Humanities Center: "Meaningful Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Classroom" (2022)