Historian — University of Houston
Atlantic World history; Jewish and Sephardic history; Iberian empires and colonialism; migration and diaspora; religion, memory, and identity; U.S.–Mexico borderlands; oral history and public history.
Primary field: Colonial Atlantic World | Secondary fields: Jewish History; U.S. History
Minors: Classical Studies, Jewish Studies, and Religious Studies
The Memory of Being Hidden: Crypto-Jewish Identity in the Twentieth-Century U.S.–Mexico Borderlands
Dissertation advisor: Mark Goldberg
Traces how descendants of Iberian and colonial conversos preserved, reinterpreted, and publicly articulated Jewish memory across the modern U.S.–Mexico borderlands. Drawing on oral histories and archival research in Texas, New Mexico, and California, the project connects twentieth-century identity formation to longer histories of Sephardic diaspora, Atlantic migration, colonial religious regulation, domestic practice, and communal memory.
"Hidden in Plain Sight: Crypto-Jewish Communities and the Negotiation of Identity in the Twentieth-Century Texas–Northern Mexico Borderlands."
Texas A&M University, 2026
"Hidden Voices: Oral History, Identity, and Crypto-Jewish Memory in the Borderlands."
Society for Crypto-Judaic Studies Annual Conference, Los Angeles, 2025
"Crypto-Jewish Space in the Texas Borderlands."
Southern Jewish Historical Society Annual Conference, 2023
"The Crypto-Jewish Memory of Being Hidden."
Western Jewish Studies Association Conference, 2023
Spanish Atlantic and New Spain
Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection; Huntington Library; Gilcrease Museum; University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Special Collections
Borderlands and Jewish History
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History; University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research; Fray Angélico Chávez History Library; New Mexico Photo Archives
Course design
Asynchronous online and face-to-face instruction; scaffolded writing; primary-source analysis; discussion and assessment design
Digital pedagogy
Canvas, Blackboard, Perusall, McGraw Hill Connect, and Top Hat
Research methods
Archival research, oral history, community-engaged research, public history, and qualitative analysis