Expertise
- Mexican History
- Costa Rican History
- Latin American Urban & Labor History
- Historical Research Methods
About
I am a historian of Latin America and a university professor with extensive teaching, advising, and program-organizing experience. In Mexico, New Mexico, and now Washington state, I have taught survey-, upper-division-, and graduate-level courses (in person and online) on the modern and colonial history of the region, as well as on world history, European history, and research methods. I served from 2015-2022 as the advisor for EWU’s history M.A. program and helped convert it to a fully online program that now enrolls hundreds of students.
During my career, I have organized over a dozen faculty-led student travel programs, most of them abroad, and have organized conferences including the 2024 annual meeting of Phi Alpha Theta NW, and on special topics ranging from pressing issues in Mexican-U.S. relations, Inclusion/Exclusion and the Vote in U.S Electoral Politics, and throughlines of urban informality and squatting in Latin American and North American settings.
Alongside my teaching, advising, and public outreach duties, I have kept active as a scholar, regularly presenting my research at conferences in the U.S. and abroad, and publishing articles and book reviews in leading Latin American studies journals.
Most significant has been the publication of my first book, “Redeeming the Revolution: The State and Organized Labor in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico” (University of Nebraska Press, 2017). The book received positive scholarly reviews and was named a book of distinction by Mexico’s national university, UNAM. My new book, “Precario: Everyday Histories of Eviction, Squatting, and Survival in Costa Rica” (McGill/Queen’s University Press, 2026), assesses those phenomena in that country from both a historical and contemporary perspective.
Currently, I am a speaker in the Washington Humanities Speakers Bureau (2026-2027), which allows me to share transnational and cross-cultural perspectives on informal housing with audiences here at home.
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