Brief Bio
I currently hold a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, for which I am based in the Freie Universität Berlin. As a Humboldt research fellow, I am working to complete my first book and will begin to conduct research for my second book project. From 2016 to 2018, I held a Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Chicago, where I conducted research, wrote journal articles, and taught two courses. Before then, I earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University (2016), a B.A. from The City College of New York (2011), and an A.A. from LaGuardia Community College (2008).

My current book project in progress is titled The Imperial Machine: Assembling the Spanish Commercial Empire in the Age of Enlightenment. It traces how an ambitious group of Spanish statesmen re-imagined Spain's vast territories as a well-ordered machine and devised a comprehensive plan to erect an integrated commercial empire centered on stimulating broad-based economic growth. The Imperial Machine recasts the Spanish Atlantic as a genuine, though not always successful, laboratory of economic innovation and brings to light the Hispanic world’s novel project of economic modernization during the age of Enlightenment.

My second book project is tentatively titled Empirical Statecraft: The Emergence of an Information Empire in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic. It will bring to light the emergence of a distinctly modern logic of government centered on harnessing scientific, economic, and administrative information to design imperial policy. In doing so, Empirical Statecraft will demonstrate that the Spanish Atlantic was a vast laboratory of the modern information age, which brought to the fore both the promise of knowledge-based governance and the perils of misinformation and distortion.

For a recent interview about my research, please click here.

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