Research

I work on questions at the intersection of moral and political philosophy, critical race theory, Latin American philosophy, and critical Indigenous studies. I'm writing a dissertation on the epistemic, affective, and existential aftermath of colonial violence - specifically on the question of how racial oppression makes itself felt in our quotidian lives.

Recent Awards

2019-2020 - Arnold L. Mitchem Dissertation Fellowship Program, Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI)

2019 - Ford Foundation Fellowship, Honorable Mention

2019 - American Philosophical Association Prize Essay on Latin American Thought

2018 - Latinx Scholars Graduate Fellowship, Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program (GO-MAP), University of Washington

2017-18 - Sawyer Seminar on "Capitalism and Comparative Racialization" Research Funds, Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality and Race, University of Washington

2017 - Institute for Ethnic Studies in the United States Fellowship, GO-MAP, University of Washington 

2016 - Summer Institute on Global Indigeneities Fellow, University of Washington

Activities

I'm a graduate fellow at the Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality and Race; I'm affiliated with the Jackson School of International Studies' Latin American Studies program; and I'm a founding member of the graduate student research cluster on Indigenous Studies. I participated in the Mellon Sawyer Seminar on the theme of "Capitalism and Comparative Racialization" at UW in the 2017-18 academic year. I was a fellow at Summer Institute on Global Indigeneities (SIGI) in 2016. I will be Mitchem fellow at Marquette University during the 2019-2020 year.

Recent/Upcoming Presentations

“‘To Make Myself Known’: Colonial Erasure and Hermeneutical Tragedy,” Resistant Imaginations: A Conference on Critical Epistemologies, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR (February 2019).

“Sanctuary Cities and Political Philsophy: What they are, What They Could and Should Be,” (Co-authored with Paul Tubig) Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, New York City, NY (January 2019).

“‘Lost Indians’ or ‘Settlers of Color’?: Settler Colonialism and Indigeneity in Mexico,” Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar on "Race and Indigeneity in the Americas," Brown University, Providence, RI (December 2018).

“Does Mexico Exist?: Mexico, Settler Colonialism, and Indigeneity,” 3^rdBiennial Conference on Mexican Philosophy, Mount St. Mary’s University, Los Angeles, CA (October 2018)

“Not Hispanic, Not Latino?: Mexican-American Claims to Indigeneity,” Society for Mexican American Philosophy Annual Conference, Texas A&M University, TX (19-20 May 2017)