Academic interests
I am interested in environmental history, indigenous studies, archival studies, and the colonial period in the Americas.
My research focuses on the preservation and representation of indigenous knowledge within the colonial archives of New Spain. Exploring practices of recording in the field, I study the colonial instruments that enabled commensurability between cultures through cultural, scientific, and epistemic translation. My research centers on the interplay between the instauration of an archive, the conservation, and the interpretation of indigenous (Nahua) knowledge, their use within a colonial setting, as well as the resistance and resilience that partake in these memory building processes.
Background
2018-2020: Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters Degree in Crossways in Cultural Narratives
2020: Laurea Magistrale (MA) Culture Moderne Comparate. Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy
2019: Máster Universitario (MA) Encrucilladas nas narrativas culturais. Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
2018: Master of Letters (MLitt) Crossways in Cultural Narratives. University of Saint Andrews, Scotland
2012-2016: Licenciatura (BA Hons), Lengua y literaturas modernas, Letras inglesas. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico
Appointments
- 2022-2024 Honorary Associate Research Fellow. Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS). University of Exeter.
Grants
- 2022–2023 Animating cycles for living and archiving the foodways of a Maya community in Yucatan. Imagining Futures Phase 2 commissioned project, UK, as co-investigator.