About
I am an ethnohistorian of medicine and science and teach Latin American Studies and History. I research as an associate at the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture. I edit the Medieval and Renaissance Latin America book series with the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and co-edit New Colonialisms in Latin America book series with Routledge Press. I blog about sickness and medicine at the Recipes Project. I collaborate with scholars of the humanities as a mentor to Mellon fellows with the Council on Library Information Resources and with Latin Americanists as the founding member and organizer of the Southwest Seminar. Occasionally, I run as a member emeritus of the Noonball League at the University of Arizona.
As an anthropologist and historian, I specialize in indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica, particularly the colonial and contemporary Maya. More broadly, I am interested in the making of metaphysical knowledges and epistemologies of experience of the early modern world. My current historical scholarly projects include two book projects. The first, Between Magic and Medicine: Colonial Yucatec Healing and the Spanish Atlantic World , explores networks of sickness and healing in colonial Yucatán and local production of medical knowledge in the Enlightenment-era Spanish Atlantic. The history of medicine, I argue, has largely overlooked the experiential and cooperative foundations of the production of knowledge. The second, tentatively titled The Morality of the Moon: Fable, Science, and Fiction in Enlightenment Mexico, examines how popular and, often, censored sixteenth and seventeenth centuries accounts of lunar travel reflected the tenuous emergence of modern metaphysics. My longstanding anthropological research involves the contemporary ethnobotany and lived medical practices of the Lacandón Maya of Chiapas, Mexico.
I am an ethnohistorian of medicine and science and teach Latin American Studies and History. I research as an associate at the Omohundro Institute for Early American History and Culture. I edit the Medieval and Renaissance Latin America book series with the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and co-edit New Colonialisms in Latin America book series with Routledge Press. I blog about sickness and medicine at the Recipes Project. I collaborate with scholars of the humanities as a mentor to Mellon fellows with the Council on Library Information Resources and with Latin Americanists as the founding member and organizer of the Southwest Seminar. Occasionally, I run as a member emeritus of the Noonball League at the University of Arizona.
As an anthropologist and historian, I specialize in indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica, particularly the colonial and contemporary Maya. More broadly, I am interested in the making of metaphysical knowledges and epistemologies of experience of the early modern world. My current historical scholarly projects include two book projects. The first, Between Magic and Medicine: Colonial Yucatec Healing and the Spanish Atlantic World , explores networks of sickness and healing in colonial Yucatán and local production of medical knowledge in the Enlightenment-era Spanish Atlantic. The history of medicine, I argue, has largely overlooked the experiential and cooperative foundations of the production of knowledge. The second, tentatively titled The Morality of the Moon: Fable, Science, and Fiction in Enlightenment Mexico, examines how popular and, often, censored sixteenth and seventeenth centuries accounts of lunar travel reflected the tenuous emergence of modern metaphysics. My longstanding anthropological research involves the contemporary ethnobotany and lived medical practices of the Lacandón Maya of Chiapas, Mexico.
