Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 2025
B.Sc., Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Méxcio, 2015

I am an interdisciplinary scholar of science and colonialism in the early modern world. My research and writing focus on commodity and knowledge production in Indigenous Mesoamerica and the Spanish Atlantic, as well as their unexpected itineraries outside these geographies. Originally trained as a biologist and historian of science in Mexico, I explore how humans have transformed the natural world into distinct visual and material cultures.

My book project, “Imperfect Reds: A New History of Cochineal Cultivation and Commerce in the Early Modern Atlantic World”, explores the early projects to produce cochineal, one of the most highly coveted red dyes in the early modern world. Following the transregional movement of dye cultivation across Central Mexico, Yucatán, Guatemala, Oaxaca, and beyond, this project traces how distinct Indigenous societies managed, negotiated, or rejected the intensified production of dye-bearing insects. In doing so, it highlights the dynamism and colonial entanglements of Indigenous knowledge, technologies, and economies.