Her current book project, Along the Caiman’s Way: The Great Magdalena River in Early Spanish America explores both the history of a river and the transformations that natural historical writing underwent in Spanish America during the first decades of the seventeenth century. The project focuses on sixteenth-and-seventeenth-century understandings of the Magdalena River (located in modern-day Colombia) and of riverine environments more broadly. It studies how early modern actors made their knowledge of the river and how they sought to transform the riparian landscape, and its people, based on this knowledge.
Associate Professor of History and Latin American Studies
