Teaching

Introduction to History

HIST 173/LAST 126 Heretics on Trial: The Holy Inquisition and its Enemies 

 

Lecture Courses

HIST/LAST 296 Colonial Latin America 

HIST/LAST 245 Modern Latin America since 1810

HIST 257/LAST 218 From Chocolate to Coca: Commodities and the Making of Latin America 

 

Upper-Level Seminars 

HIST 300 Issues in Contemporary Historiography 

HIST/LAST 322 Exploration, Conquest, and Insurrection: The History of the Amazon 1542 to the present 

HIST/LAST 335 Nature, Science, and Empire in Early Latin America

HIST/LAST 348 Urban Histories of Latin America 

HIST 356/LAST 229/CHUM 229 Between Worlds: Change and Continuity in Early Latin America 

HIST/LAST 373 Language and Power in Latin America 

 

 

Publications

Book:

The Cradle of Words: Language and Knowledge in the Spanish Empire (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025).

Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters:

 “Juan Páez de Castro and the Project of a Universal Library,” in Wars of Knowledge: Imperial Hegemony and the Assembling of Libraries Forum, Pacific Coast Philology, Vol. 52, No. 2, 2017, pp. 173-183.

“Language as Archive: Etymologies and the Remote History of Spain,” in Mercedes García-Arenal (ed.), After Conversion: Iberia and the Emergence of Modernity, (Leiden: Brill, 2016), pp. 95-125.

“Aurel Stein’s Methods and Aims in Archaeology on the Silk Road,” in Helen Wang (ed.), Sir Aurel Stein, Colleagues and Collections, British Museum Research Publication 184, London 2012, pp. 1–7.