Teaching

From Edinburgh to Cambridge, Oregon, and the Getty

My teaching spans colonial Latin American history, Mesoamerican art and archaeology, world history, and museum education. I have supervised MPhil and undergraduate dissertations, designed original courses, convened seminar series, and led public workshops from the Getty Center to the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge.

University of Edinburgh University of Edinburgh (2025-26)

Teaching and Research Fellow in Latin American History, School of History, Classics and Archaeology.

  • 2025-26 HIST 10452: Resistance, Resilience and Rebellion in Colonial Latin America (year-long, 2 sections)
  • 2025-26 Historical Methods and Sources seminars: Food as Archive; Seeing the Spanish Conquest; Sin and Signs in Aztec Religion and Material Culture for Historians (4 sections)
  • 2025-26 Undergraduate dissertation supervisions (8 students)

University of Cambridge University of Cambridge (2020-25)

Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of History; Research Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research; Affiliated Lecturer, Centre for Latin American Studies.

  • 2024-25 MPhil Supervisor; Foundation Year, Pre-Degree Supervisor
  • 2023-24 Part 1A Supervisions for Outline 9: North America, Central America, and The Caribbean, Contact to Present (Convenors: Nick Guyatt and Julia Guarneri)
  • 2023-24 Part 1A, IHT Book Pack (Co-Convenor: Leigh Denault)
  • 2022-24 Archaeology of the Americas (Arch. A34/G16), Department of Archaeology, with Elizabeth DeMarrais and Jimena Lobo Guerrero Arenas. Guest lecturer: Nahua Archaeology, Nahua-Colonial Archaeology, Spanish Colonial Archaeology
  • 2022-24 Core Course, Centre for Latin American Studies: "Materializing the Lettered Cities of Colonial Spain: Education, Urbanity, and Space" (Convenor: Gabriela Ramos)
  • 2022-23 MPhil Supervisor; History HAP Part I: "Religion, Cultural Imperialism, and Spanish-Colonial Ethnography: The Florentine Codex in a Transatlantic Context" (Convenor: Leigh Denault)
  • 2020-21 Visual and Material Culture, Early Modern MPhil: "The Abridged Florentine Codex" (Convenor: Ulinka Rublack)
  • 2024 Cambridge Summer School, History of Art Department: "Migration: Artefacts, Concepts, Theories, Persons" (Convenor: Caroline van Eck; with ENS Paris, Leiden University, Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa)

University of Oregon University of Oregon (2010-19)

Course Instructor and Teaching Assistant, Department of History.

  • 2019 Course Instructor: Spiritual Conquest: Christian Evangelization in the New World
  • 2016 Course Instructor: World History II: Early Modern (Online Summer Course)
  • 2010-19 Teaching Assistant: World History I, II, and III; History of Mexico; Latin America I, II, and III; Western Civilisations II and III; Cultures of India: Past and Present; Ancient/Medieval Warfare; Foundations of East Asia Civilizations

Occidental College Guest Lectures

  • 2022 Occidental College, History 256/LLAS 256: Remembering the Conquest of Mexico (Convenor: Lisa Sousa)

Museum Education and Curatorial Work

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology "Re-Imagining Coyote" AR Exhibition

Co-created an augmented reality exhibition of nineteenth-century Mexican board games at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge. With Julian Escott and Adrian Gamboa. Funded by Cambridge Creative Encounters and UCAM-SHAPE Hub. Traveled internationally: Cambridge Festival, World Environment Day in Tijuana (Mexico), World Design Capital exhibition in San Diego (USA).

Getty Research Institute Getty Research Institute (2019-20)

Instructor, Getty Research Institute and UCLA Latin America Institute Summer K-12 Educator's Workshop: "The Florentine Codex: Teaching the Conquest of Mexico through Indigenous Eyes." Getty Digital Share 2020.

Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge

Guest Curator and Content Specialist for COLOUR: Art, Science, & Power (2022-23), curated by Anita Herle. Contributor to the Being Human Festival 2023 and Cambridge Festival 2024 for public engagement activities.

"Shaping Memories with Seeds: Aztec Food Science and Edible Archives," food-archive sculpture lessons for the MAA (Being Human Festival, 2023).

UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History University of Oregon Museums (2016-18)

  • 2017-18 Guest Curator, UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History: "Mesoamerican Maps: Navigating Knowledge"
  • 2017-18 Student Co-Curator, Lane County Historical Museum: Their Hearts Are in This Land
  • 2016-17 Collection Historian, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art: Gertrude Bass Warner Collections

Smarthistory Smarthistory

Contributing author for the educational art history platform. Published: "Aztec Art and Feasts for the Dead" (2020).