My work focuses on Mexico’s impoverished majorities in the second half of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth century. In particular I am interested in social movements, state formation, nationalism and popular political culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Mexico.
My third book, The Dead March: A History of the Mexican-American War, is a social and cultural history of the 1846-48 war between Mexico and the United States. Focusing on gender, religion, and race, the project examines how soldiers and civilians in both countries understood and experienced the conflict. I teach graduate courses on colonial history, nationalism, and social movements as well as a variety of undergraduate courses on Mexico, modern and colonial Latin America, world history, and war.
Research Interests:
- Mexico
- Latin America
- political culture
- war
Keywords:
- 19th century
- Latin American History
- Age of Revolutions
- Citizenship and Belonging
- Cultural History
- Empire and Colonialism
- Historical Teaching and Practice
- Military History and Warfare
- Politics and Constitutional History
- Race and Ethnicity
- Social and Revolutionary Movements
Subject Area: History
