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Courses

• HIST 11050: Ancient and Medieval World History 
• HIST 31543: The Scientific Revolution
• HIST 31550: Medicine in the Modern World Since 1500
• HIST 31031: The Reformation
• HIST 31141: Early Latin America

About

My research focuses on the early modern Iberian Atlantic world with a focus on the history of knowledge and belief. I am especially interested in the ways in which knowledge and belief have become sites for negotiating power between the state and its subjects as well as between members of different social and ethnic groups in early modern Latin America. My first book, The Andean Wonder Drug: Cinchona Bark and Imperial Science in the Spanish Atlantic, 1630-1800, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2016 and received an Honorable Mention for the 2017 Murdo J. MacLeod Book Prize from the Southern Historical Association. In 2019, I was co-editor, with Joseph Gabriel, of a collection of essays, Drugs on the Page: Pharmacopoeias and Healing Knowledge in the Early Modern Atlantic World, also published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Currently, I am working on a project exploring the history of a mining in late colonial Peru and another project on the history of heresy and tolerance in the Atlantic World. My research has been supported by fellowships from the William J. Fulbright Program, the John Carter Brown Library, the Science History Institute, the Lloyd Library and the Center for the History of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Fellowships

• Barbara S. Mosbacher Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library (2012)
• Herdegen Fellowship, Chemical Heritage Foundation (2011)
• Summer Research Fellowship, 5X���� (2010)
• J. William Fulbright Fellowship, Madrid, Spain (2005-2006)
• Short-Term Fellowship, Science History Institute (2018)
• Francis A. Countway Fellowship, Center for the History of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (2016)