Modern Mexico, Latin America, Environmental History, World History

Current book project: "Watering the Revolution: The Ecology and Technopolitics of Agrarian Reform in La Laguna, Mexico"

Ongoing research: "The Meandering Meanings of the 19th Century Mexican 'Ejido' and Their Revolutionary Social and Environmental Implications"

Journal Articles and Book chapters

"The Historical Dynamics of Mexico’s Groundwater Crisis in La Laguna: Knowledge, Resources and Profit," forthcoming December 2012, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos

"Bringing the Revolution to the Dam Site: How Nature, Labor, and Technology Converged in the Microcosm of a Company Town in 1930s and 40s Mexico," Journal of the Southwest (Spring 2011)

“Conflicto por un cambio de régimen de aguas en La Laguna: la ‘construcción social’ de la primera gran presa en el río Nazas, 1900-1936," Buenaval Journal of the Universidad Iberoamericana-Laguna (June 2006)

Working Papers

"Mining Water for the Revolution: Marte R. Gomez and the Business of Agrarian Reform in 'La Laguna,' Mexico, 1920s to 1960s," The Kellogg Institute Working Papers, University of Notre Dame Press, July 2010

Reviews

"Land Reform in Puerto Rico: Modernizing the Colonial State, 1941-1969," Hispanic American Historical Review (August 2011)

"Agua, Poder Urbano, y Metabolismo Social," Hispanic American Historical Review(August 2011)

Quinn Family Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, University of Chicago Department of History, 2007

Fulbright-García Robles Fellowship in Mexico, 2005-06

2009 University of Chicago’s Center for Teaching and Learning’s Graduate Student Teaching Award for Excellence in Course Design for “US Intervention and Regime Change in Latin America”