PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor at Washington and Lee University, 2022-
Visiting Assistant Professor at Claremont McKenna College, 2021-2022
Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020-2021, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Facultad de Administración y Economía. Project: The Rise of the Capitalist Agrarian Economy in the Araucania, 1883-1920
EDUCATION
UC Irvine, Ph.D. History, June 2018
Tufts University, M.A. History, May 2012
San Francisco State University, B.A. History, June 2009
DISSERTATION/THESIS
Ph.D. History Dissertation: “‘To Govern is to Educate:’ Race, Education, and Colonization in La Araucanía, Chile, 1883-1920.” Advisor: Heidi Tinsman. June 2018
M.A. History Thesis. “Banners Forward: The Rise of a Women’s Movement in Argentina in 2003, the Role of Women Workers, and the Demand to Legalize Abortion.” Advisor: Peter Winn. May 2012
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Editorial Committee, North American Congress of Latin America (NACLA), 2023-Present
Secretary (2023) and Chair (2024), Conference of Latin American History (CLAH), Chile-Rio de la Plata Section, 2023-2024
International Committee Member for the Association of Critical Heritage Studies, 2021-2022
Editorial Assistant, Revista de Historia Agraria de América Latina, 2020-Present
Book Review Copy Editor, Revista de Historia Agraria de América Latina, 2019-2020
Ad-Hoc Reviewer, Estudios Rurales (Argentina), 2020
PEER-REVIWED JOURNAL ARTICLES/BOOK CHAPTERS
“Educating Gender: The Economic and Spiritual Battles Over Land and Mapuche Children in Araucanía, Chile (1897-1922).” Endeavour vol. 48, no. 3 (September 2024).
“From ‘Armies of Love’ to Demanding Legal Abortion: Piqueteras and Women Workers at the Forefront of Forging New Feminist Politics in Argentina (1990-2005).” Radical History Review 148, January 2024
“Land and the Language of Race: State Colonization and the Privatization of Indigenous Lands in Araucanía, Chile (1871-1916).” The Americas 80, January 2023
“Collective Trauma, Feminism, and the Threads of Popular Power: A Personal and Political Account of Chile’s 2019 Social Awakening.” Radical Americas - Special Issue: Chile’s Popular Unity at 50, June 2021
“‘Useful Citizens for the Working Nation:’ Mapuche children, Bavarian Capuchin Friars, and the Vocational Workshops in Making the Modern Rural Economy in the Araucanía, Chile (1896-1920).” Revista de Historia Agraria de América Latina (1), April 2020
JOURNAL ARTICLES/BOOK CHAPTERS (NON PEER-REVIEWED)
Book chapter under contract with Bloomsbury Press. “Family and Heredity: Blood and Family Relations in the Age of Empire” for A Cultural History of Blood in the Age of Empire. Expected 2025
Co-authored Introduction to the English language publication of Anarchism in Latin America by Angel Capelletti. Chico, AK Press, 2018
“Unearthing Violeta Parra: Counter-Memory, Rupture, and Authenticity Outside of the Modern.” In Violeta Parra: Life and Work, ed. Lorna Dillon. Suffolk, Tamesis, 2017
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
To Govern is to Educate: Modeling Racial Education in Modern Chile (1879-1920), under contract with the University of Alabama Press
“Reluctant Modernizers: Bavarian Capuchins and Mapuche Communities Negotiating Existence, 1896-1916.” (article project)
RESEARCH & COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS
Directed the WLU-funded Summer Student Research digital humanities project “Xplained: Tracing the History of the Gender-Neutral X in Indymedia Argentina. Student researchers: Ashley Escobar and Evan Clark. Summer 2023 and 2024: https://indymediaxplained.academic.wlu.edu
Worked with two journalism courses to create a magazine and website on my course “Historical Memory in Latin America,” Winter 2023
PUBLIC SCHOLARSHIP
Co-editor with Roger Merino and Nayla Vacarrezza. Issue on Plurinationalism from Below. The North American Congress of Latin America (NACLA), Fall 2024.
“Why Pedro Pascal Being Unabashedly Chilean Matters.” The Abusable Past, 8 March 2023
Co-editor with Joshua Frens-String, NACLA Issue on Chile: Charting a Future in the Aftermath of Defeat. The North American Congress of Latin America (NACLA), Winter 2022
Interview with Elisa Loncon and Alondra Carrillo Vidal, “Transforming Chile from the Ground Up,” The North American Congress of Latin America (NACLA), Winter 2022
“In Chile, Boric’s Win Signals Victory for Social Movements and New Constitution.” The North American Congress of Latin America (NACLA). December 23, 2021
“An Uprising that Changed Santiago’s Political Landscape.” Online geography journal Society and Space. January 2020
“‘Until living becomes worth it:’ Notes from the Chilean Uprising.” The Abusable Past from the Radical History Historical Review. November 1, 2019
BOOK REVIEWS
Beatriz Allende: A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America (2020) by Tanya Harmer for The Global Sixties: An Interdisciplinary Journal (18 October 2024): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/27708888.2024.2418204?src=exp-la
Moving Memory: Remembering Palestine in Postdictatorship Chile (2023) by Siri Schwabe for The North American Congress of Latin America (NACLA), Winter 2024: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10714839.2024.2427992
“What can the walls tell us? Two Books on the aesthetics of resistance and revolution in Latin America.” Terri Gordon-Zolov and Eric Zolov, The Walls of Santiago: Social Revolution and Political Aesthetics in Contemporary Chile (2022) and Lisa Bogerts, The Aesthetics of Rule and Resistance: Analyzing Political Street Art in Latin America (2022) for The Global Sixties: An Interdisciplinary Journal (8 March 2024): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/27708888.2024.2325723
Contested Nation: The Mapuche, Bandits, and State Formation in Nineteenth-Century Chile (2019) by Pilar M. Herr in The Latin Americanist (September 2022)
Ranquil: Rural Rebellion, Political Violence, and Historical Memory in Chile (2022) by Thomas Miller Klubock in H-Net Reviews (June 2022): https://networks.h-net.org/node/23910/reviews/10337944/green-rioja-klubock-ranquil-rural-rebellion-political-violence-and
Negotiating Autonomy: Mapuche Territorial Demands and Chilean Land Policy (2021) by Kelly Bauer in Revista de Historia Agraria de América Latina (HAAL) 3:1 (April 2022)
Soberanías fronterizas: Estados y capital en la colonización de Patagonia, Argentina y Chile, 1830-1922 (2019) by Alberto Harambour in Revista de Historia Agraria de América Latina (HAAL) 1:1 (April 2020)
INTERVIEWS
Interview with Prof. David Seitz by Catpitali$t Imperiali$m: Cocaine, Coffee, and the Commons podcast on “The Queer Commons: Dismantling the Cis-Term.” (May 26, 2022): https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ZAQ6yBMRFE4PIjuX1yc5y
ACADEMIC PAPERS & PRESENTATIONS
“Poner el cuerpo in the chat room: How can researching the gender-neutral x teach us about feminism, queerness, and data preservation? (Argentina, 2002-2009)” approved workshop with research students Evan Clark and Ashley Escobar for Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference, May 2025
“The ‘marvelous history’ of US Settler Colonialism: The Racial Imaginations of Chile’s Industrial Elite (1882-1891)” for the panel Settler Colonialism Beyond Borders: The United States and Latin America in the Age of Empire, 2025 AHA
“Are they common lands? The Limitations and Usefulness of Universalizing Land Enclosure in the Americas,” accepted abstract for the 2024 AHILA conference “The Land Question Between Latin America and Europe,” September 2024
“Stories of Organic Anarchisms during Three Uprisings: Argentina 2002, OWS-Boston 2011, and Chile 2019,” for the workshop Reimagining Anarchism: Race, Class, Gender, and Revolution at Cornell University (March 2023)
“The Racial Politics of Chilean 19th-Century Settler-Colonial Policies” for the panel Can We Call It White Supremacy? Rethinking Racial Systems in Modern Latin America, 2024 AHADiscussant on panel "Rethinking the Geography of the Southern Cone" for Chile-Rio de la Plata section, Congress of Latin American History (CLAH), 2024 AHA
“Gender Battles, Spiritual Warfare, and Land Rights in Southern Chile.” Lunch & Learn (Winter 2023) Series at Washington and Lee University
“Educating Gender: Mission Schools and Mapuche Children in Araucania, Chile (1896-1915) and its and its consequences in the present.” Gender and Feminist Studies panel: Los cuerpos femeninos como territorios: dispositivos estratégicos de biopoder desde el marco de las instituciones antes y después de la pandemia del COVID-19 at Latin American Studies Association (LASA), May 2022
“Spiritual Warfare and Gender Battles in Southern Chile.” Junior/Visiting Faculty Forum: Flash Talks at Claremont McKenna College, April 2022
“The Venezuelan Refugee Crisis in Geopolitical Perspective: Initial Questions.” Model United Nations Conference at Claremont McKenna College, April 2022 (Canceled due to COVID-19)
“Building Active Citizen Skills in the Classroom.” Teaching at CMC: Excellence, Innovation, and Technology at Claremont McKenna College, January 2022
“COVID-19 in Latin America: Social and Political Responses to the Pandemic.” California State University, Los Angeles, July 2021
“Silencios históricos y continuidad de la resistencia indígena en la Araucanía, Chile” and “Land, Race, and Capital in Southern Araucanía, Chile (1871-1889). Two accepted panel presentations at Latin American Studies Association (LASA), May 2021
“Writing, Thinking & Teaching the Southern Cone Today.” Rio de la Plata Studies Subcommittee Panel. Congress of Latin American History (CLAH) roundtable at the American Historical Association Conference, January 2021
“Prospects for Change in Chile: From Social Uprising to Constitutional Reform.” Co-presenter, webinar organized by the Davis Humanities Institute, UC Davis, December 2020
“The Global Implications of the 1884-1885 Berlin Conference: A Chilean Story.” Workshop: América Latina, la Era del Imperio y las fronteras de la civilización, 1870s-1930s, Universidad Austral-Valdivia, March 2020
"New Mapuche Histories: The Politics of Settler Colonialism, Comparative Studies, and Interplays with Hegemony.” Congress of Latin American History (CLAH) roundtable at the American Historical Association Conference, January 2020
“Neoliberalism, Sexual Dissidence, and Transversal Politics: The Feminist Wave in Chile and Argentina.” Spanish and Portugues Department conference series “What is Art Doing for You?” at UC Irvine, Spring Semester, May 2019
“The Colonial Politic in State Building: The Racial Imaginations of Chile’s Agency of Colonization, Paris, 1882–95.” Conference paper presented at a CLAH panel at the American Historical Association, January 2019
“Racial Fantasies in the Making of Modern Chile.” Talks given in Spanish at Universidad de Chile, Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile (Santiago), and Universidad de la Frontera (Temuco), October-November 2018
CONFERENCE COMMITTEES
Member of the International Scientific Committee in charge of topic No. 4 “Education, Interculturality, and Heritage” in theAssociation of Critical Heritage Studies’ (ACHS) 6th conference at Pontífica Universidad Católica de Chile in December 2022
ACADEMIC EVENTS ORGANIZER
Panel presentation on current Latin American politics with professor Zoila Ponce de Leon, Marcos Perez, and Jim Casey. Sponsored by the departments of History, Politics, Economics, SOAN, and LACS at Washington and Lee University (January 2023)
Co-organizer or “Femicide, Human Rights, and New Visions for Feminism in Latin America.” Mgrublian Center for Human Rights at Claremont McKenna College, October 2021
Assisted in the mutli-campus tour by the Chilean historian and FONDECYT recipient, Dr. Cristián Perucci, titled “Mapuche Political Leaders and Chiefs, 19th Century Chile,” February 2019
Co-Organizer of the scholarly speaking series “Heterodox Histories: Dialogues about Nature, Ideology, and Race” with guest speakers Dr. Lauren (Robin) Derby, Dr. Jessica Graham, and Dr. Aisha Finch and support from the Humanities Commons, Black Consortium, and Latin American Studies at University of California-Irvine, 2017-2018 academic year
Co-Organizer of the history graduate conference “Replicas & Frames” with guest speaker Dr. Dayo Gore at University of California-Irvine, Spring 2014
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American History Association (AHA), 2017-Present
Centro de Estudios de Historia Agraria de América Latina (CEHAL). 2019-Present
The Conference of Latin American History (CLAH), 2016-Present
Latin American Studies Association (LASA), 2010-Present
Asociación de Historiadores Latinoamericanistas Europeos (AHILA), 2024-Present