I am an interdisciplinary scholar and writer focused on memory, identity, culture, and politics. I’m the author of Mapping Memory: Visuality, Affect, and Embodied Politics in the Americas (2019), and co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism (2023). My writing can also be found in Memory Studies, Genocide Studies and Prevention, TDR: The Drama Review, Journal of Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Journal of Spanish and Latin American Cinemas, Human Rights Review, in various anthologies, and elsewhere.

I’m currently at work on two new book projects. The first (nonfiction) examines the relationship between memory and democracy and explores how memory interventions aim to reframe our understanding of the lived experience, legacies, and future histories of racialized, gendered violence in the Northern Americas. The second (fiction) is a novel focused on the lives of those who live and what it means to carve new futures amidst the ruins of history.

I am an Associate Professor of Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory and Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona, and affiliate faculty in the School of Art and the Human Rights Practice Program. I previously served as Chair and Director of Graduate Studies of Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory and as Faculty Senator for the University of Arizona. I serve on the Executive Council of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics and previously served as Committee Member of the Hemispheric Studies Forum of the Modern Languages Association and as Co-chair of the Memory and Trauma working group of the Memory Studies Association.

I hold a PhD from New York University (2013), completed the Public Leadership Executive Education Program from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (2022), and for the 2023-2024 academic year was a Charles E. Scheidt Faculty Fellow in Atrocity Prevention at SUNY Binghamton University’s Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention. For the 2026-2027 academic year, I will be a Visiting Scholar at the University of Virginia.

Research, Teaching, and Advising Areas:
Memory studies, genocide and atrocity prevention, culture and politics, performance studies, visual culture, hemispheric American studies, Latinx studies, young adult literature, qualitative methods, social and cultural analysis.