I am a social historian of modern Latin America with a special interest in the circum-Caribbean, specifically, the insular communities in the western Caribbean. My first book titled The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making (University of North Carolina Press, 2020) told the history of Caymanian turtle hunters who plowed the sea from the late nineteenth to late twentieth centuries. My next book project-in-progress is titled The Islands for the Islanders: Ethnic Politics, Environmental Crisis, and Sovereignty Struggles in Caribbean Colombia, 1953-1993. It will examine how the Colombian government promoted and used mass tourism to consolidate authority over the islands of San Andres and Providencia, a frontier territory that resulted in ethnic strife and environmental degradation.