I’m an Assistant Professor of art history at The University of Washington, where I teach courses on the arts of Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. I specialize in the arts and visual culture of the Spanish colonial Caribbean and the Afro-Iberian world, with a focus on popular piety and vernacular knowledge production in the eighteenth century. My research centers gendered and racialized knowing practices that were overlooked or misconstrued by the histories of science and religion in the age of reform. My first book project, Miraculous Altagracia: Testimony, Artifact, and Creole Heritage in Hispaniola, is an object-centered study of miracle making that traces the colonial origin story of the Virgin of Altagracia and its entanglement in nativist politics today in the Dominican Republic. My writing also considers contemporary Latinx art that grapples with the legacies of colonialism.

I hold a doctorate in art history from Florida State University, and have published on academic and public-facing platforms, including Small Axe, Arts, Hyperallergic, Yale University Press, and Smarthistory. My work has been funded by the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation, and I’m a fellow of the Center for Curatorial Leadership/The Mellon Foundation.