PhD Student
Latin America & the Caribbean
I am a third-year PhD student in Caribbean, Latin American, and Atlantic History. My research lies at the intersection of environmental history and the history of marronage (escape from slavery) in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean islands, from the age of the Haitian Revolution to the abolition slavery in the 19th century. I am particularly interested in how African and Black maroons recreated environmental knowledge in Caribbean environments, how this intersected with African cultural and spiritual continuities in diaspora, and how maroons challenged the spatial boundaries of colonial societies. Methodologically, I aim to write transimperial "histories-from-below" that move across imperial, regional, and island boundaries within the Caribbean archipelago and the broader Atlantic world.
Previously, for my master’s thesis, I wrote about the history of hurricanes in Puerto Rico from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. I was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. I welcome inquiries from fellow Latin American, Caribbean, and Latino students pursuing graduate study in History.
Research Interests
- Slavery and Marronage
- Comparative Colonialism
- African and Black Atlantics
- Environmental History
Education
PhD Student, UC Berkeley, Latin American and Caribbean History
MA, UW-Madison, Latin American, Caribbean, and Iberian Studies
BS, UW-Madison, History & International Studies
Awards and Fellowships
UC Berkeley Center for British Studies Graduate Travel Grant (Pre-Dissertation), 2025
UC Berkeley John L. Simpson Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2025
UC MRPI “Routes of Enslavement in the Americas” Research Grant, 2024
UC-Cuba Research and Travel Fellowship, 2024
UC Berkeley Pre-Dissertation Research Grant in International Studies, 2024
UC Berkeley John L. Simpson Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2024
UC Berkeley Chancellor's Fellowship for Graduate Study, 2023-2024
UW-Madison Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship (Brazilian Portuguese), Summer 2022
UW-Madison Nave Short-Term Field Research Grant, 2022
Teaching
University of California, Berkeley
Graduate Student Instructor
- History 142: Cuba in World History (Fall 2025)
- History 8B: Latin American History: Modern Latin America (Spring 2025)
- History C187: The History and Practice of Human Rights (Fall 2024)
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Teaching Assistant
- History 102: American History, Civil War Era to the Present (Spring 2023)
- History 136: Sport, Recreation, and Society in the United States (Fall 2022)
