Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in History, University of Toronto

M.L.I.S. in Library and Information Science, University of Western Ontario

M.A. in History, Queen’s University

B.A. in History and Philosophy, Brock University

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Academic Librarian Appointments

2020– Assistant Librarian, Western Libraries, University of Western Ontario

Sessional Appointments

2020– Sessional Instructor, History Department, Wilfrid Laurier University

2019– Sessional Instructor, History Department, Carleton University

2019–2020 Sessional Instructor, History Department, University of Western Ontario

2018 Sessional Instructor, History Department, Trent University Durham

2012 Sessional Instructor, History Department, University of Western Ontario

2009–2013 Sessional Instructor, History Department, Brock University

Limited-Term Appointments

2015–2017 Assistant Professor (LTA), History Department, University of Toronto

2013–2015 Assistant Professor (LTA), History Department, Trent University Durham

AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

Library Research Fellowships

2020 Richard E. Greenleaf Visiting Library Scholar Award, Latin American & Iberian Institute, University of New Mexico

2020 Vatican Film Library Mellon Fellowship, Saint Louis University Libraries

2016 Archibald Hanna Fellowship, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library

2016 Short-Term Fellowship, Newberry Library

2015 Msgr. Francis J. Weber Fellowship, Huntington Library

2015 Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Fellowship, Victoria University in the University of Toronto

2013 Center for New World Comparative Studies Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library

Institutional Grants and Bursaries

2015   SSHRC Institutional Grant, Department of History, University of Toronto

2015   Travel Bursary Funding, Conference on Colonial Missions and Their Legacies, Københavns Universitet

2014   Vice President Research and International Strategic Initiatives Fund, Trent University

Dissertation Awards

2014 Maureen Ahern Doctoral Dissertation Award in Colonial Latin American Studies, Latin American Studies Association

Teaching Awards

2013   Clarke Thomson Award for Excellence in Sessional Teaching, Brock University [nominated]

Graduate Awards, Scholarships, and Fellowships (University of Western Ontario)

2018   The H.W. Wilson Graduate Scholarship, University of Western Ontario

2017   Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Government of Ontario

Graduate Awards, Scholarships, and Fellowships (University of Toronto)

2017   Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Government of Ontario

2008–2009   Arthur Child Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Government of Ontario

2008   Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Major Collaborative Research Initiative, “The Hispanic Baroque Project: Complexity in the First Atlantic Society,” Graduate Student Research Grant, Government of Canada

2008   Edward W. Nuffield Graduate Travel Fellowship, University of Toronto

2007   Patricia and Alan Marchment Graduate Student Travel Award, University of Toronto

2007   School of Graduate Studies Travel Grant, University of Toronto

2007   University of Toronto Fellowship, University of Toronto

2006   History Department Travelling Fellowship, University of Toronto

2006   School of Graduate Studies Travel Grant, University of Toronto

2006   University of Toronto Fellowship, University of Toronto

2004–2007   Canada Graduate Scholarship, Government of Canada

2004   Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Government of Ontario [declined]

2004   Mary H. Beatty Fellowship, University of Toronto

Undergraduate Awards and Scholarships

2002   Distinguished Graduating Student Award in History, Brock University

2002   Distinguished Graduating Student Award in Philosophy, Brock University

2001–2002   Dean’s Honour List, Brock University

2000   Father John Nota Scholarship, Brock University

2000   In-Course Scholarship, Brock University

1999   In-Course Scholarship, Brock University

1999   Donald G. Creighton Prize, Brock University

1998–1999   Dean’s Honour List, Brock University

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Francisco de Florencia. “Vidas de los varones ilustres. El tercer volumen de la Historia de la Provincia de la Compañía de Jesús de Nueva España” [Transcription, critical edition, and scholarly introduction under review by the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, Universidad Jesuita de Guadalajara].

Articles and Chapters

“Criollo Patriotism and the Colonial Archive: Francisco de Florencia and the Early Florida Frontier.” In Latinx Literature and the Archive, 1492–1898, edited by Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela and Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez. Vol. 1 of Cambridge Latinx Literature in Transition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [In progress].

“Los recién venidos. La llegada a México en el imaginario histórico de los cronistas dominicos.” In “Publicaciones temáticas del I Congreso Internacional de historia de la Orden de Predicadores en América,” ed. Eugenio Martín Torres Torres. Bogotá: Universidad de Santo Tomás de Colombia [Accepted].

“Economic Pilgrimage to Southern Ontario: Vincenzo Pietropaolo and the Photohistory of Mexican Farmhands, 1984–2006.” In “Latin America Made in Canada,” eds. María del Carmen Suescun Pozas and Alena Robin. Ottawa: Lugar Común Editorial [Forthcoming].

“Native Evangelists in Northwestern New Spain.” In Reframing Reformation: Understanding Religious Difference in Early Modern Europe, ed. Nicholas Terpstra, 215–234. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2020.

“Bastions of the Virgin: The Marian Cartography of Mexico City.” Colonial Latin American Review 28, no. 3 (2019): 336–366. https://doi.org/10.1080/10609164.2019.1655886.

“La Florida in the Creole Imaginary: The Frontier of New Spain in Francisco de Florencia’s Historia de la Provincia (1694).” Florida Historical Quarterly 96, no. 3 (2018): 271–299.

“La parte censurada de la Historia de la Provincia de Francisco de Florencia.” Estudios de Historia Novohispana 44, no. 1 (2011): 141–188. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/iih.24486922e.2011.044.24005.

“La estrella del norte de México. Francisco de Florencia y los orígenes de la “biblioteca guadalupana”.” Boletín Guadalupano 114 (June 2010): 16–18.

“Late Arrivals: Seventeenth-Century Alternative Narratives of the ‘Spiritual Conquest’ of New Spain.” In Autores y actores del mundo colonial. Nuevos enfoques multidisciplinarios, eds. Verónica Salles Reese and Carmen Fernández-Salvador, 157–165. Quito: Universidad San Francisco Quito, 2008.

Articles (Co-Authored)

“Hyperdulia Americana: Sacred History and Devotional Landscapes.” Co-authored with Rosario Inés Granados Salinas. Colonial Latin American Review 28, no. 3 (2019): 295–311. https://doi.org/10.1080/10609164.2019.1655891.

Review Essays

“Missionaries in the Early Modern Spanish World.” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 20, no. 2 (2019). http://doi:10.1353/cch.2019.0019.

“Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxochitl and the Mexican Archive.” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 18, no. 1 (2017). http://doi:10.1353/cch.2017.0004.

“Indigenous and Black Intellectuals in the Lettered City.” Latin American Research Review 50, no. 2 (2015): 256–266. http://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2015.0028.

Book Reviews

Erin Woodruff Stone. Captives of Conquest: Slavery in the Early Modern Spanish Caribbean (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021). In Sixteenth-Century Journal [In progress]

Evelyn P. Jennings, Constructing the Spanish Empire in Havana: State Slavery in Defense and Development, 1762–1835 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2020) In Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies [In progress]

Daniel I. Wasserman-Soler, Truth in Many Tongues: Religious Conversion and the Languages of the Early Spanish Empire (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020). In Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire 56, no. 3 (2021): 438–439.

Corina Zeltsman, Ink under the Fingernails: Printing Politics in Nineteenth-Century Mexico (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2021). In Information & Culture 56, no. 3 (2021). https://infoculturejournal.org/book_reviews/Zeltsman_Dyck

Ryan Dominic Crewe. The Mexican Mission: Indigenous Reconstruction and Mendicant Enterprise in New Spain, 1521–1600 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019). In Renaissance and Reformation 44, no. 1 (2021): 223–225. https://doi.org/10.33137/rr.v44i1.37066

Richard Ovenden, A History of the Deliberate Destruction of Knowledge (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2020). In College & Research Libraries 82, no. 4 (2021): 611–612. https://doi.org/10.5860/crl.82.4.611

Linda A. Newson, ed., Cultural Worlds of the Jesuits in Colonial Latin America (London: University of London Press, 2020). In Hispanic American Historical Review 101, no. 2 (2021): 312–314. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182168-8897620

Sean F. McEnroe, A Troubled Marriage: Indigenous Elites of the Colonial Americas (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2020). In Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire 55, no. 3 (2020): 315–317. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh.55.3-br14

Ida Altman and David Wheat, eds., The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019). In Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 46, no. 1 (2021): 146–147. https://doi.org/10.1080/08263663.2021.1855894

David L. Haskell, The Two Taríacuris and the Early Colonial and Prehispanic Past of Michoacán (Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2018). In Sixteenth-Century Journal 50, no. 4 (2019): 1299–1301.

Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, ed., A Companion to Early Modern Catholic Global Missions (Leiden: Brill, 2018). In Renaissance and Reformation 42, no. 3 (2019): 231–233. https://doi.org/10.7202/1066386ar

Cameron Jones, In Service of Two Masters: Missionaries of Ocopa, Indigenous Resistance, and Spanish Governance in Bourbon Peru (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018). In Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 44, no. 3 (2019): 386–388. https://doi.org/10.1080/08263663.2019.1653700

Jaime Lara, Birdman of Assisi: Art and the Apocalyptic in the Colonial Andes (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and Bilingual Press, 2016). In Renaissance and Reformation 40, no. 2 (2017): 204–206. http://doi.org/10.33137/rr.v40i2.28523

Ana E. Schaposchnik, The Lima Inquisition: The Plight of Crypto-Jews in Seventeenth-Century Peru (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2015). In Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 41, no. 3 (2016): 457–458. https://doi-org.proxy1.lib.uwo.ca/10.1080/ 08263663.2016.1225678

Ann Twinam, Purchasing Whiteness: Pardos, Mulattos, and the Quest for Social Mobility in the Spanish Indies (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015). In Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire 51, no. 1 (2016): 198–200. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh.ach.51.1.rev36

Joanne Rappaport, The Disappearing Mestizo: Configuring Difference in the Colonial New Kingdom of Granada (Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2014). In Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 40, no. 3 (2015): 430–432. https://doi-org.proxy1.lib.uwo.ca/10.1080/ 08263663.2015.1090080

W. George Lovell, Christopher H. Lutz, Wendy Kramer, and William R. Swezey, “Strange Lands and Different Peoples”: Spaniards and Indians in Colonial Guatemala (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2013). In Canadian Journal of History/Annales canadiennes d’histoire 49, no. 2 (2014): 319–321. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjh.49.2.319

Frances L. Ramos, Identity, Ritual, and Power in Colonial Puebla (Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2012). In Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 38, no. 1 (2013): 160–161. https://doi.org/10.1080/08263663.2014.883818

John Charles, Allies at Odds: The Andean Church and Its Indigenous Agents, 1583–1671 (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010). In Sixteenth-Century Journal 43, no. 1 (2012): 290–291.

Susan Schroeder, Anne J. Cruz, Cristián Roa-de-la-Carrera, and David E. Tavárez, eds. and trans., Chimalpahin’s Conquest: A Nahua Historian’s Rewriting of Francisco López de Gómara’s La conquista de México (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010). In Histoire sociale/Social History 44, no. 87 (2011): 175–177. https://doi.org/10.1353/his.2011.0011

Academic Translations

Alonso Bonifacio. “Indigenous Teachers in Early Indigenous Missions – The Experience in New Spain (1664).” In Global Reformations Sourcebook: Convergence, Conversions and Conflict in Early Modern Religious Encounters, ed. Nicholas Terpstra, 119–122. London: Routledge, 2021.

Pedro Guibovich Pérez. “Library (Spanish America).” In Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque: Technologies of Transatlantic Transfer and Transformation, eds. Evonne Levy and Kenneth Mills, 197–199. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014.

Manuel Peña Díaz. “Language (Spain).” In Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque: Technologies of Transatlantic Transfer and Transformation, eds. Evonne Levy and Kenneth Mills, 186–188. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014.

Francisco Luis Rico Callado. “Music-Missions (Spain).” In Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque: Technologies of Transatlantic Transfer and Transformation, eds. Evonne Levy and Kenneth Mills, 246–248. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014.

José A. Rodríguez Garrido. “Opera (Spanish America).” In Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque: Technologies of Transatlantic Transfer and Transformation, eds. Evonne Levy and Kenneth Mills, 256–258. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014.

Aurelio Tello. “Music-Convents (Spanish America).” In Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque: Technologies of Transatlantic Transfer and Transformation, eds. Evonne Levy and Kenneth Mills, 243–245. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

“Colonial Encounters in the Catalogue: Search Skills, Indigenous Peoples, and ArcGIS StoryMaps,” virtual paper presented at the Digital Pedagogy Institute Conference, August 10, 2021.

“La invención criolla de Europa: los viajes transatlánticos de Francisco de Florencia,” virtual paper presented for Los Libros siguen a los Viajes. Historia del libro de viaje en el mundo hispanohablante, LVII Congreso de la Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas, June 3, 2021.

“Jesuit and Native Preaching in Northwestern New Spain,” paper presented for Imperial Performances: The Sensory History of Missions in Colonial New Spain, The Conference of Latin American History, New York, New York, USA, January 6, 2020.

 “The Martyrdom of María: The Death of an Indian Interpreter in Northwestern New Spain,” paper presented for Representations of Death in New Spain, The Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 19, 2019.

“Polemics and Presidios: Juan de Albizuri and the History of the Sinaloa Missions,” paper presented for Missions and Presidios: Jesuits, Amerindians, Filipinos, and Muslims in the Spanish Pacific, 1556–1700, The Conference of Latin American History, Chicago, Illinois, January 2019.

“Indigenous Evangelists on the Jesuit Missions of Sinaloa,” paper presented for Cultural Dynamics of Missions, Global Reformations: Transforming Early Modern Religions, Societies, and Cultures, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Toronto, Canada, University of Toronto, September 30, 2017.

“Los evangelistas nativos en el Mundo Pacífico,” paper presented for Mártires y misioneros en el Mundo Pacífico, LIII Congreso de la Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas, Toronto, Canada, June 1, 2017.

“Bastions of the Virgin: The Marian Geography of Seventeenth-Century Mexico City,” paper presented for Shaping Marian Cults: Sacred History, Materiality, and Identity in the Early Modern Spanish World, The Conference on Latin American History, Denver, Colorado, USA, January 7, 2017.

“The Nobility of the Soul: Multiethnic Sanctity in the Early Modern Spanish World,” paper presented for Indigenous Communities Confront Modernity and Identity, The Conference on Latin American History, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, January 9, 2016.

“Jesuit Missionary Partnerships: Morisco, Indian, and Filipino Evangelists in the Spanish World,” paper presented for Early Colonial Missions, Colonial Christian Missions and their Legacies Conference, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 29, 2015.

“Indigenous Martyrs in the Early Modern Spanish World,” paper presented for Politics, Ethnography, and the Paradoxes of Empire, XXXII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, USA, May 24, 2014.

“Indigenous Missionaries: The “Spiritual Conquest” Retold,” paper presented for Religion, Refuge, and Resistance in Indigenous History, The Conference on Latin American History, Washington, D.C., USA, January 3, 2014.

“Los recién venidos: La llegada a México en el imaginario colonial de los cronistas dominicos,” paper presented for La hermenéutica dominicana y la cuestión indígena: Las crónicas, Primer Congreso Internacional de historia de la Orden de Predicadores en América, Mexico City, Mexico, April 24, 2013.

“The Virgin of Remedies and the Politics of Precedence: Mercedarian Accounts of the “Spiritual Conquest,” paper presented for Revising Texts in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century New Spain, Conference of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, April 6, 2013.

“Creole Jesuit Hagiography: Volume III of Francisco de Florencia’s Historia de la Provincia,” paper presented for Jesuits and Crypto-Jews in Seventeenth-Century Spanish America: Individual and Familial Biographies, The Conference on Latin American History, Chicago, Illinois, USA, January 8, 2012.

“Economic Pilgrimage in Southern Ontario: Vincenzo Pietropaolo’s Photographs of Migrant Mexican Workers,” paper presented for Latin America and the Caribbean Made in Canada, Universities Art Association of Canada Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, October 29, 2011.

“Retablos of Migrant Mexican Workers in the Niagara Region,” paper presented for Urban Politics and Visual/Material Culture, Visual Culture of the Americas 2010 Workshop, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, April 17, 2010.

“La Florida in Francisco de Florencia’s Patriotic Vision of New Spain,” paper presented for Assessing the Sacred in the Colonial Borderlands: Jesuit and Indigenous Faith at the Margins of the Spanish Empire, American Historical Association Conference, New York, New York, USA, January 3, 2009.

“Novohispano Novenas: Patriotic Texts of Creole Promotion,” paper presented for Historicizing Colonial Texts, Conference of the Rocky Mountain Council for Latin American Studies, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA, April 12, 2008.

“The Patriotic Tradition of Francisco de Florencia’s Zodiaco Mariano,” paper presented for Marian Images in Spain and the New World, Society of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Conference, Fort Worth, Texas, USA, April 5, 2008.

“El indigenismo de Francisco de Florencia en su cartografía iconográfica,” paper presented for Literatura indigenista e indígena, Latin American Indian Literatures Association Conference, San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico, March 12, 2008.

“Late Arrivals: Seventeenth-Century Alternative Narratives of the ‘Spiritual Conquest’ of New Spain,” paper presented for Crónicas de conquista, Colonial Americas Studies Organization Conference, Quito, Ecuador, June 7, 2007.

INVITED LECTURES, TALKS, AND PRESENTATIONS

“Hierarchies of Holy Death: Indigenous Martyrs on Spanish Missions, 1496–1700,” virtual talk presented for the Latin American Studies Seminar, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, March 22, 2021.

““Dying for Christ” in the Spanish Empire: Native Martyrs in Colonial Sacred Histories,” talk presented for the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada, September 28, 2018.

“Native Martyrs in the Early Modern Spanish World,” talk presented for The Latin American Studies Program Luncheon Series, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, October 28, 2016.

“The Myth of the White Spiritual Conquistador: Multiethnic Missionaries in the Spanish World,” talk presented for Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies Friday Workshops Series, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, November 27, 2015.

“Multiethnic Missionaries: The Myths of the “Spiritual Conquest”,” talk presented for the John Carter Brown Library Fellows Talk, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, August 19, 2013.

“The Nobility of the Soul,” presentation delivered to the GTA Latin America Research Group, November 26, 2010.

“They Will Live Like Kings When They Go Home,” talk presented for Food for Thought: Mexican Agricultural Workers in Canada, symposium at the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 8, 2008.

“Sacred Indigenismo: Francisco de Florencia’s Patriotic Construction of the Indian,” presentation delivered to the GTA Latin America Research Group, September 19, 2008.

“Sacred Historiography in the Age of the Spanish American Baroque,” invited lecture presented at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, October 16, 2008.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Brock University

Colonial Latin America

Modern Latin America

Ideas and Culture before 1850

Renaissance Ethnography

Carleton University

Early Modern Europe, 1350–1650

Introduction to Latin American and Caribbean Studies II

Trent University Durham

World History to 1800

World History from 1800 to the Present

Introduction to Latin America

Multiethnic Identities in Latin America

Revolutions in Latin America

University of Toronto

Natives, Settlers, and Slaves: Colonizing the Americas, 1492–1804

The History of Colonial Latin America

Historiography

Mexican Popular Culture

Cross Cultural Encounters in the Spanish Pacific

University of Western Ontario

Medieval Europe

History of Latin America

Wilfrid Laurier University

Lives of the Explorers

SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION

Editor of Special Issues

Editor, with Rosario Inés Granados Salinas, special issue of Colonial Latin American Review, “Hyperdulia Americana: Sacred History and Devotional Landscapes,” 28, no. 3 (2019): 295–311.

Manuscript Reviewer for Scholarly Journals

Estudios de Historia Novohispana (2017)

Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2018)

Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos (2014, 2016)

Organizer of Conference Panels

Imperial Performances: The Sensory History of Missions in Colonial New Spain, The Conference of Latin American History, New York, New York, USA, January 6, 2020.

Representations of Death in New Spain, The Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 19, 2019.

Missions and Presidios: Jesuits, Amerindians, Filipinos, and Muslims in the Spanish Pacific, 1556–1700, The Conference of Latin American History, Chicago, Illinois, January 5, 2019.

Mártires y misioneros en el Mundo Pacífico, LIII Congreso de la Asociación Canadiense de Hispanistas, Toronto, Canada, June 1, 2017.

Shaping Marian Cults: Sacred History, Materiality, and Identity in the Early Modern Spanish World, The Conference on Latin American History, Denver, Colorado, USA, January 7, 2017.

LANGUAGES

English (native speaker); Spanish (fluent); Portuguese (reading); French (reading)

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Historical Association (AHA)

American Library Association (ALA)

Conference on Latin American History (CLAH)

Ontario Library Association (OLA)

Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM)