PhD in History (2022), Eisenberg Institute of Historical Studies Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-23)
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About
I am a historian of the early modern Spanish world, encompassing the Iberian peninsula and colonial Spanish holdings in the Americas from 1400-1700. I focus on women's spiritual experiences, writings, and authority during the seventeenth century. My research engages with questions concerning gender, materiality, iconography, and theology, especially considering sororial pathways and women's knowledge production in the colonization and evangelization of the New World.
My book project, provisionally entitled Ineffable Knowing: Sor María de Jesús in the Early Modern Spanish World, explores early modern Spanish understandings of the world and cosmos through the eyes of Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda, a Franciscan nun who came to influence not only her confessors and her king, but also peoples and places across a trans-oceanic, composite monarquía.
I am the 2022-23 Eisenberg Institue of Historica Studies Postdoctoral Fellow. I produced and hosted Season 2 of Reverb Effect, a podcast by the UM Department of History. Listen to my episode for more about my research interests, including women's visions of Purgatory in the seventeenth-century Spanish world. For more on my research, projects, and publications, please visit my website.
Fields of Study
- Early Modern Europe
- Atlantic World
- Colonial Latin America
- 16th/17th C Iberia
- Religion and theology
- Women, gender, and sexuality
- Place, space, and landscape
- Visual and material culture
