Visiting Lecturer
Early Modern Europe
Education
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, 2012
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2014
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2020
Publications
“The Pillars of Dynasty: Women, Marriage Diplomacy, and the Habsburg Dynastic Network, 1567-70,” The Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 54, N. 1 and 2 (March 2023), pp. 3-21
“Truth Telling, Trust, and Transformation Listening Report”, UC Berkeley, Spring 2023
Book Reviews
Suzanne Sutherland. The Rise of the Military Entrepreneur: War, Diplomacy, and Knowledge in Habsburg Europe. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. Austrian History Yearbook, Vol. 55 (May 2024), pp. 451-52
Selected Papers
“Rationalizing an Ill-Fated Match: A Jurist’s Perspective on Maria Theresa’s Renunciation and Spanish Marriage Diplomacy, 1659”, SCSC 2023 Baltimore Conference, 2023
“‘Between Great Kings There Is No Certain Thing’: Spanish Letrados, Dynastic Concerns, and Marriage Diplomacy with France under Philip III, SCSC 2022 Minneapolis Conference, 2022,
“The Resilient Queen: Court Rivalries, Political Marginalization, and Indirect Power Strategies During the Early Reign of Anne of Austria, 1615-1638,” 38th Annual James C. Young Colloquium, 2018
“Chicano Activism and New Nativism in the Twenty-First Century,” Los Medanos College, 2017
“El Gran Toreador: Mulatto Identity, Celebrity, and the Inquisition,” Early Modern Peripheries: Marginality and Eccentricity in the Old World and New Conference, 2015
Selected Awards and Fellowships
Future of Higher Education (FHE) Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2022-23
Berkeley Connect Consulting Fellowship, 2021
Adam Smith Fellowship, Mercatus Center and Liberty Fund, 2019-20
Doris G. Quinn Fellowship, 2018-19
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, UC Berkeley, 2018
Doctoral Qualification with Distinction, UC Berkeley, 2016
Chancellor’s Doctoral Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 2013-18
Campus Service
From Day One Program Mentor, Latinx Center, 2023-2025
Division of Equity and Inclusion Core Leadership Team, 2022-23
Bridge Connect Program Mentor, 2021
Berkeley Connect Senior Fellow, 2020-21
Committee on Climate, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (CEDI), 2018-2019
Research Interests
Spanish Empire
Diplomacy and Dynastic Politics
The History of Women
Indigenous History
Atlantic and Pacific Worlds
Recent Courses
History C184D/Data C104: Human Contexts and Ethics of Data
Data C4AC: Data and Justice
History 103: Women and the Making of the Spanish Colonial World
History R1B: Contested Encounters in the Spanish Pacific World
History 100B 002: The Global Spanish Empire: From Resistance to Revolution, 1492-1898
History R1B: Race and Gender in the Atlantic World
History R1B: Tracing Networks Across Early Modern Europe
