I work on nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Mexico, focusing on medical, environmental, and indigenous history—particularly Maya of the southeastern Mexico. My book manuscript, “Diseased Relations: Epidemics, Public Health, and State-Building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847-1924,” focuses on disease epidemics such as smallpox, cholera, yellow fever, malaria, leprosy, and tuberculosis, that paralleled violent insurrection during the Caste War of Yucatán between 1847 and 1902, and the Mexican Revolution of 1910.

Select Publications

“On Sacred Ground: The Church and Burial Rites in Nineteenth-Century Yucatán” Journal of Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, volume 23:1, 2007.

Encyclopedia of Iberian American Relations, “Iberia and the Caribbean,” Introductory Essay, Fall 2005, ABC-CLIO, Inc. Santa Barbara, CA.

Courses

I teach courses on the Aztecs, Modern Mexico, Latin American Nation Building, and surveys of Latin American History.