Academic Career
– since 2025: Academy in Exile Fellow, TU Dortmund and KWI
– 2024-2025: Research Fellowship at the Critical Childhood Studies Centre, University of College London
– 2023-2024: Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Columbia University in the City of New York
– 2019-2023: Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Boston College
– 2016-2018: Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Center for the History of Emotions, Berlin, Germany, under the direction of Prof. Ute Frevert
– 2016: PhD, Department of History, Columbia University in the City of New York
– 2010: M.Phil., Department of History, Columbia University in the City of New York
– 2009: MA, Department of History, Columbia University in the City of New York
– 2007: AB, Sonoma State University, Department of History
– 2006: Leadership Alliance Summer Research Early Identification Program Fellowship (SR-EIP) in the Department of History at Columbia University in the City of New York
Research Interests
– history of journalism
– History of the public sphere
– history of childhood and youth
– history of emotions
– Latin America and Mexico
Publications
– Shouting the News: Newsboys in the Making of Modern Mexico, 1870– 1970, monograph in progress
– “Newsboys in the Mexican Revolution”, Journal of Urban History, in progress
– “News Workers in Mexico’s Provincial Cities, 1900-1915.” in Preparation for submission to Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos
– “Newsboys in the Streets: Social Reform and Childhood in Mexico City during the Late Porfiriato, 1884-1910,” Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 13, no. 3 (2020): 384-406.
– „The concept of sentimental boyhood: The emotional education of boys in Mexico during the early Porfiriato, 1876–1884.“ Boyhood Studies 11, no. 1 (2018): 27-46.
Reviews
Susana Sosenski, Robachicos: Historia del secuestro infantil en México, 1900-1960, México Instituto de Investigaciones Históricas, Grano de Sal, 2021, November 2022, The Hispanic American Historical Review
William E. French, The Heart in the Glass Jar: Love Letters, Bodies, and the Law in Mexico (The Mexican Experience) Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015), The Americas, Vol. 76, No.3 July 2019, pp.524-525
Sabine Frühstück, Playing War: Children and the Paradoxes of Modern Militarism in Japan (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017), Global Studies of Childhood, pp.1-2.