THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Modern Latin America, economic and social history, labor history, family history, legal history, gender and sexuality
BIOGRAPHY
I am a historian of modern Mexico. My dissertation draws on methods from social, economic, legal, and labor history to show how women’s work—remunerated and not—was woven through the mid-twentieth-century Mexican economy in complex and unexpected ways. By centering the informal, family, and unpaid labor that has always exceeded formal employment in the so-called modern sector, and by studying this period of rapid economic and social change in granular, bottom-up detail, my dissertation advances a social history of development that both historicizes and challenges the foundational categories used to make sense of post-revolutionary Mexico.
Before beginning doctoral studies, I completed an MPhil in economic and social history at the University of Oxford and an A.B. in history at Princeton University. In 2025-26, I am a visiting doctoral researcher at the Colegio de México.
PUBLICATIONS
- “Rights to Her Labor: Women Workers on Mexico’s Southeastern Railroads,” International Labor and Working-Class History 109 (2026): 1-21.
- “Derechos del trabajo: Rosa Baños Pool y las ambigüedades de las labores femeninas en los ferrocarriles mexicanos,” Mirada Ferroviaria 48 (2025): 20-47.
- The Right to Research: Historical Narratives by Refugee and Global South Researchers, co-edited with Marcia C. Schenck (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022).