Degrees

• A.B., Brown University, Comparative Literature and Hispanic Studies, 1992
• M.A., Yale University, Hispanic Literatures, 1998
• M.Phil, Yale University, Hispanic Literatures, 2000
• Ph.D., Yale University, Hispanic Literatures, 2003

Academic Experience

• Associate Professor, Tulane University, 2012-
• Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2005-2012
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2003-2005
• Part-Time Acting Instructor, Yale University, 1999-2001
• Research Assistant, Yale University, 1998-2000
• Instructor, Colegio San Francisco de Asis, El Salvador, 1995-1996

Distinctions

• Best First Book Short-List Finalist in the History of Religions, for Allies at Odds: The Andean Church and its Indigenous Agents, 1583-1671, awarded by the American Academy of Religion (AAR), 2011
• Andrew W. Mellon Young Professorship in the Humanities, School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University, 2010
• Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, 2010
• National Endowment for the Humanities Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2005
• New England Council of Latin American Studies Best Ph.D. Dissertation Prize, 2004
• Fulbright Fellowship, 2001-2002

Languages

• Spanish
• Portuguese
• French
• Latin

Overseas Experience

• Peru

Related Experience

• Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Tulane University, 2012-
• Researcher, “Colonial Modernity in the Andes: A Comprehensive Study of Viceroy Toledo’s General Resettlement” (sponsored by the National Ethnology Museum of Osaka, Japan and Vanderbilt University), 2017-
• Undergraduate Honor Board, School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University, 2007-
• Latin American Library Faculty Committee, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, 2007-
• Richard E. Greenleaf Library Fellowships Committee, Latin American Library, Tulane University, 2008-

Selected Publications

• In progress. “After Cajamara: Religious Books in Post-Conquest Peru.”
• Forthcoming. “El Tercer Concilio de Lima en los Comentarios reales del Inca Garcilaso.” In Discurso e historia en los Comentarios reales del Inca Garcilaso. Ed. José Antonio Rodríguez Garrido, Pedro Guibovich Pérez, and Carmela Zanelli. Lima: Pontificia U
• 2014. “Trained by Jesuits: Indigenous Letrados in Seventeenth-Century Peru.” In Indigenous Intellectuals: Knowledge, Power, and Colonial Culture in New Spain and the Andes. Ed. Gabriela Ramos and Yanna Yannakakis. Durham: Duke University Press.
• 2013. “El poder de los quipus confesionales en las doctrinas de indios.” In El quipu colonial: Estudios y materiales, edited by Marco Curatola Petrocchi and José Carlos de la Puente Luna. Lima: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú: 167-190.
• 2011. “Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala en los foros de la justicia eclesiástica.” In Justicia y población indígena en la América virreinal. Ed. Ana de Zaballa Beascoechea, pp. 203-22. Madrid and Frankfurt: Iberoamericana, Vervuert.
• 2010. Allies at Odds: The Andean Church and its Indigenous Agents, 1583-1671. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.
• 2007. “More Ladino than Necessary: Indigenous Litigants and the Language Policy Debate in Mid-Colonial Peru.” Colonial Latin American Review. 16 (1): 23-47.
• 2007. “Unreliable Confessions: Khipus in the Colonial Parish.” The Americas. 64 (1): 11-33.

Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses: 

• SPAN-4140-01: Introduction to Colonial Letter