Degrees

• PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2014

• MA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009

• BA, University of Kansas, 2005

Appointments (selected)

• Director, Creating Connections Consortium (C3), Middlebury College

• Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Latin American, Latino & Caribbean Studies, Dartmouth College

• Assistant Editor of Cuban Studies/Estudios Cubanos, University of Pittsburgh Press

Fellowships & Awards (selected)

• Honorable Mention, Vanderwood Prize, Conference on Latin American History

• Honorable Mention, Criscenti Best Article Prize, New England Council of Latin American Studies

• Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dartmouth College

• Award for Outstanding Teaching, History Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• Cuban Heritage Collection Graduate Fellowship, University of Miami

• Lydia Cabrera Award, Conference on Latin American History

Invited Talks (selected)

• California State University, Los Angeles (2023)

• Washington University in St. Louis (2022)

• Rialta Alianza Iberoamericana para la Literature, las Artes y el Pensamiento (recording) (2021)

• Cambridge University Press (recording) (2020)

• University of Colorado at Boulder (2018)

• University of Florida (2017)

• Dartmouth College (2015)

• Yale University (2014)

• University of Miami (2014, 2011)

 Podcast Interviews

• New Books Network, interviewed by Rozzmery Palenzuela Vicente (recording) (2021)

Conference Presentations (selected) 

• Conference on Cuban and Cuban American Studies (2017)

• Latin American Studies Association (2016, 2014, 2013)

• American Historical Association (2016, 2015, 2010)

• Social Science History Association (2015)

• Berkshire Conference on the History of Women (2014, 2011)

Courses Taught (selected)

• Health & Disease in Latin America

• History of Sexuality in Latin America

• The Cuban Revolution: Origins & Legacies

• The History of the World since 1945

• History of Latin America since Independence

• Introduction to Latin American and Caribbean Studies

Book & Articles (selected, all single-authored & peer-reviewed)

• Laboring for the State: Women, Family, and Work in Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-1971 (New York: Cambridge University Press), 2019.

• “The Politics of Motherhood and Economic Scarcity through Cuban Cartoons, 1963,” invited contribution to Special Issue of Clio: Femmes, Genre, Histoire 41, no. 1 (Spring 2015): 219-227. Published in French as “Cuba 1963 à travers quelques caricatures: politiques maternelles et pénuries” and translated by Alice Bourgeois.

• “‘Count, Capture, and Reeducate’: The Campaign to Rehabilitate Cuba’s Female Sex Workers, 1959-1966,” in Journal of the History of Sexuality 24, no. 1 (January 2015): 125-153.

Languages

• Spanish

• English