Degrees

• Ph.D. History, University of California, San Diego 2004
• M.A. Latin American Studies, Vanderbilt University, 1998
• B.S. Forestry, University of Illinois, 1987

Research Area

• Modern Mexico
• Religion
• Popular Culture
• Costumbrismo

Current Research

• La Madre Matiana: Female Piety, Prophecy, and Historical Memory in Modern Mexico.

Current Courses

• History 160 Colonial Latin America
• History 262 History of Mexico
• History 266 Reform and Revolution in Latin America
• History 361 Religion in Latin American Society
• History 115F From Pancho Villa to Frida Kahlo: Being Revolutionary in Mexico

Professional Societies

• American Historical Association
• Latin American Studies Association
• Rocky Mountain Conference of Latin American Studies
• Conference on Latin American History

Professional Honors

• Fulbright-Garcia Robles Fellow, 2001-2002

Selected Publications

• Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism: Vision, Shrine, and Society in Oaxaca, 1887-1934, manuscript under review at Duke University Press.
• "Envisioning Mexico’s Catholic Resurgence: The Virgin of Solitude and the Talking Christ of Tlacoxcalco, "1908-1924,” forthcoming in Past and Present.
• “A Revolution in Local Catholicism?: Faith or Fraud in Oaxaca, 1928-1934,” in God’s Revolution? Faith and Impiety in Revolutionary Mexico, 1910-1940, ed. Matthew Butler, (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, forthcoming 2007).
• “Inspirando mexicanos: religiosidad, autoridad, y comunidad desde la Madre Matiana al Segundo Juan Diego,” in Practicas populares, cultura política y poder en México, siglo XIX, ed. Brian Connaughton (Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Iztapalapa, forthcoming 2006).
• “Visions of Women: Revelation, Gender, and Catholic Resurgence,” in Religious Culture in Modern Mexico, ed. Martin Austin Nesvig (Boulder, Co.: Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming 2006).
• “Indian Saints and Nation-States: Ignacio Manuel Altamirano’s Landscapes and Legends.” Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, 20, no.1 (Winter 2004): 47-68.