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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 I am a historian of Latin America and the Caribbean with a particular emphasis on themes such as peasant politics, agrarian reform, rural state formation, nation-building, citizenship, and social movements in Latin America. My first book, Fields of Revolution: Agrarian Reform and Rural State Formation in Bolivia, 1935-1964<\/em>\u00a0examines Bolivian agrarian reform and sees the role that Indians and peasants played in consolidating one of Latin America’s most radical and redistributive reforms.\u00a0\u00a0Fields of Revolution<\/em>\u00a0was awarded the Socolow-Johnson Book Prize by the Council of Latin American History in 2023 and received an Honorable Mention for the 2022 Alfred B. Thomas Book Award. Additionally, an article related to my research, titled \u201c’Land to Its Original Owners’: Rethinking the Indigenous Politics of the Bolivian Agrarian Reform,\u201d was published in the\u00a0Hispanic American Historical Review<\/em>\u00a0in May 2017.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 In spring 2024, New Mexico Press published my co-edited volume The Struggle for Natural Resources: Findings from Bolivian History<\/em>. This book examines Bolivia’s land and commodity disputes over five centuries, exploring local, regional, national, and transnational dynamics. The book portrays Bolivia’s political struggles over natural resources as enduring processes transcending immediate events. By delving into the Bolivian context, it fosters dialogue and comparison with other regions.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0My current research, How Revolutions Travel: Latin American Repercussions of the Bolivian National Revolution (1952\u20131964)<\/em>\u00a0is the first study to analyze the international impact of Bolivia’s National Revolution on neighboring countries. I argue that the revolutionary policies implemented in Bolivia regarding voting rights, land access, and the unionization of indigenous and peasant populations not only reshaped Bolivian society but also challenged the economic and social structures of neighboring nations. This project offers a transnational perspective addressing the gap in understanding how revolutions in one country inspired transformative movements or counter revolutionary forces in others, thus contributing to the diplomatic history of the Global South.<\/p>\n

Book<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fields of Revolution: Agrarian Reform and Rural State Formation in Bolivia, 1935-1964 <\/span><\/em>(<\/span>Pittsburgh:\u00a0<\/span>University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021). <\/span><\/p>\n

Articles<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cLa Revoluci\u00f3n nacional de 1952 y sus encrucijadas: de la reforma laboral a la distribuci\u00f3n de la\u00a0tierra\u201d Revista Historia<\/em>, no. 39 (Oct 2017): 73-98.<\/p>\n

\u201cLand to Its Original Owners\u201d: Rethinking the Indigenous Politics of the Bolivian Agrarian\u00a0Reform.\u201d Hispanic American Historical Review. no. 97.2 (May 2017): 259-296.<\/p>\n

\u201cLa modernidad esquiva: debates pol\u00edticos e intelectuales sobre la reforma agraria en Bolivia (1935-1952).\u201d Revista Historia y Cultura, no. 29 (2012): 23-50.<\/p>\n

\u201cEl otro rostro de Am\u00e9rica Latina. En di\u00e1logo con La emergencia ind\u00edgena en Am\u00e9rica Latina, de Jos\u00e9\u00a0Bengoa.\u201d Nueva Sociedad: Democracia y Pol\u00edtica en Am\u00e9rica Latina. Nueva Sociedad, no. 238 (2012):\u00a0126-137.<\/p>\n

\u201cRepensando la formaci\u00f3n de los Distritos Municipales Ind\u00edgenas.\u201d Revista de An\u00e1lisis Pol\u00edtico (La Paz,\u00a0Bolivia) 10: 6-23, 2005.<\/p>\n

Book Chapters<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAgrarian Reform in Bolivia in the 20th and 21th centuries\u201d Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin\u00a0American History (August 2018)<\/p>\n

\u201cEstudio introductorio: tras los pasos de rebellion en las venas,\u201d (Introductory study to the reedition\u00a0of Rebellion in the Veins) James Dunkerley, Rebeli\u00f3n en las venas: la lucha politica en Bolivia\u00a01952-1982. La Paz: Centro de Investigaciones Sociales, 2017, 17-40.<\/p>\n

\u201cLa transformaci\u00f3n de lo p\u00fablico y lo privado en Bolivia: una mirada desde el \u00e1rea rural.” In Lo\u00a0p\u00fablico en la pluralidad: Ensayos desde Bolivia y Am\u00e9rica Latina, ed. Gonzalo Rojas. La Paz: CIDES,\u00a02015, 293- 314.<\/p>\n

\u201cReforma agraria: Balances, perspectivas y nuevos enfoques\u201d In: Tomo VI: Construcci\u00f3n del Estado y\u00a0constituci\u00f3n de los actores sociales: 1952-2000. La Paz: Plural, 2014, 225-262.<\/p>\n

\u201cFotograf\u00edas del pre y post 1952.\u201d In Bolivia en blanco y negro. La Paz: Plural, 2013, 44-51.<\/p>\n

\u201cEtnograf\u00eda de la justicia estatal: La violaci\u00f3n como prisma de las relaciones de g\u00e9nero.\u201d with\u00a0Rossana Barrag\u00e1n. In Justicia y diversidad en Am\u00e9rica Latina. Pueblos ind\u00edgenas ante la globalizaci\u00f3n.\u00a0Edited by Chenaut, Victoria, Magdalena G\u00f3mez, et al. Mexico D.F.: CIESAS, FLACSO,\u00a02012.<\/p>\n

\u201cInd\u00edgenas urbanos: El caso de los aymaras en la ciudad de La Paz y El Alto.\u201d with Rossana\u00a0Barrag\u00e1n In \u00bfInd\u00edgenas u obreros?: La construcci\u00f3n pol\u00edtica de identidades en el altiplano boliviano. Edited\u00a0by Arnold, Denise, Rossana Barrag\u00e1n, et al. La Paz: UNIR, 2009.<\/p>\n

\u201cLa violaci\u00f3n como prisma de las relaciones sociales y el entramado estatal en el \u00e1mbito jur\u00eddico.\u00a0Etnograf\u00eda y hermen\u00e9utica de la justicia.\u201d with Rossana Barrag\u00e1n. In Rompiendo silencios: Una\u00a0aproximaci\u00f3n a la violencia sexual y al maltrato infantil en Bolivia. Edited by Calla, Pamela. La Paz:\u00a0Plural, 2005.<\/p>\n

Podcast<\/strong><\/p>\n

Co-host of the podcast Historias in Spanish with SECOLAS team: https:\/\/historiaspodcast.com.\u00a0Since February 2020 to the present.<\/p>\n

Guest Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Revista Umbrales: Revista de Posgrado en Ciencias del Desarrollo<\/em>, N 29, 2015<\/p>\n

Book Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n

Review of Defendiendo el techo fiscal: curacas, ayllus y sindicatos en el Gran Ayllu Macha, Norte de Potos\u00ed, Bolivia, 1930-1994<\/em>, by Tristan Platt. Revista<\/em> El Rey Desnudo <\/em>no. 16 (August 2020), 176-183.<\/p>\n

Review of El programa indigenista andino 1951-1973: las mujeres en los ensambles estatales del Desarrollo<\/em>, Mercedes Prieto (author and editor). Revista \u00cdconos <\/em>no. 63 (2019): 233-235.<\/p>\n

Review of Oil and Nation: A History of Bolivia’s Petroleum Sector, <\/em>by Steven Cote. Bolivian Studies Journal\/ Revista de Estudios Bolivianos<\/em> no. 13 (May 2018) 157-162.<\/p>\n

Review of El Estado propone, los carai disponen y los guarayos devienen ciudadanos, 1939\u20131953: El impacto de la secularizaci\u00f3n en Guarayos. By Pilar Garc\u00eda Jord\u00e1n. Hispanic American Historical Review<\/em> no.97 (2017) 564-565.<\/p>\n

Review of Rhythms of the Pachakuti: Indigenous Uprising and State Power in Bolivia<\/em>, by Raquel Guti\u00e9rrez. Journal of History: <\/em>Reviews of New Books<\/em> no 44 (July 2016) 73-74.<\/p>\n

Review of Indians and Leftists in the Making of Ecuador\u2019s Modern Indigenous Movements<\/em>, by Marc Becker. Bolet\u00edn del Instituto Franc\u00e9s de Estudios Andinos<\/em> no 39 (2010) 203-205.<\/p>\n

Review of Reconfigurando territorios: Reforma agraria, control territorial y gobiernos ind\u00edgenas en Bolivia<\/em>, by Fundaci\u00f3n Tierra. <\/em>A Contracorriente<\/em> no 8 (2010) 551-557.<\/p>\n

Education<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ph.D.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 New York University. History of Latin America. 2014<\/p>\n

M.A.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Universidad de Salamanca. Political Science. 2007<\/p>\n

M.A.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Universidad de la Cordillera. Andean Studies. 2004<\/p>\n

B.A. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Universidad Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de La Paz, Political Science.2002<\/p>\n

Courses Taught<\/strong><\/p>\n

University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Fall 2014-Spring 2018)<\/p>\n