Degrees

• Ph.D., University of Texas in Austin, 2016
• M.A., Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS), Social Anthropology, 2008
• Professional Degree in Law Licenciatura en Derecho. Autonomous Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM), 2005
• Diplomado in Procedural Civil Law, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), 2003

Academic Experience

• Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, 2018-
• Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Humboldt State University, 2017-2018
• Fellow in the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California San Diego, 2015-2017

Distinctions

• Frat Bernardino de Sahagún National Award for Best Dissertation on Social Anthropology, National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), 2017
• Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies Fellowship, University of California (Research Fellow in Residence), 2015-2017
• Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, 2013
• Social Science Research Council (SSRC), Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, 2011
• Fulbright García-Robles Fellowship, International Institute of Education, 2008

Languages

• Spanish

Overseas Experience

• Mexico

Selected Publications

• 2017. “Towards a Fugitive Anthropology: Gender, Race, and Violence in the Field,” coauthored. Cultural Anthropology Journal. 32(4).
• 2015. “‘We May Not Be Able to Write, But We Can Speak’: The Oratory of Celia González Pérez as an Epistemological Intervention,” co-authored. In Reproducción social de la marginalidad. Exclusión y participación de las indígenas y campesinas de Chiapas, ed
• 2013. “Indigenous Justice Practices under State Recognition. The Case of Puebla from Cuetzalan‘s Organizational Experience,” co-authored. In Justicias Indígenas y Estado. Violencias Contemporáneas, edited by María Teresa Sierra, Rosalva Aída Hernández,
• 2011. “Seminario de Estudios sobre Violencias.” Ichan Tecolotl, 22 (255).
• 2010. “Experiencia en el Congreso de la Latin American Studies Association (LASA) 2010 en Toronto, Canadá.” Ichan Tecolotl, 21 (244).

Recently Taught Latin American-Related Courses: 

Indigenous Movements in Latin America