“Performance and Propaganda in Spanish America during the War of the Spanish Succession” - 2015
“Reinterpreting the Conquest of Mexico for an Enlightenment Audience in Vivaldi’s Opera Motezuma (1733)” - 2015
“The Global Politics of the Transatlantic Slave Trade During the War of the Spanish Succession, 1700-1715” - 2013
“Globalizing the War of the Spanish Succession: Conflict, Trade, and Political Alliances in Early Bourbon Spanish America” - 2018
"The French Connection: Asiento Traffic and War in Early Eighteenth-Century Cuba and the Caribbean Basin" - 0000
“The Global Dimensions of Catalan Resistance: The Case of the Recollect Mission to the Philippines (1711-1712)” - 2015
University Travel Grant
University Travel Grant
University Travel Grant
Mellon Foundation Short-Term Fellowship
University Travel Grant
Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship
Faculty Memember of the Year (nominee) - TAMIU Honors Program - 05-03-2017
Honorarium - Caribbean and Atlantic Studies Working Group (TAMU Glasscock Center for Humanities Research) - 04-03-2017
Scholar of the Year (nominee) - TAMIU - 01-01-2017
Scholar of the Year (recipient) - TAMIU Department of Humanities - 01-01-2017
Invited by the program officer to mentor two local high school students (Alexander HS) in order to prepare them to enroll in TAMIU
Invited by the Villa Antigua de San Agustín Genealogical Society and TAMIU Special Collections and Archives to give a public lecture, entitled Frontiers of Race and Ethnicity in Hispanic Genealogy," as part of TAMIU's Hispanic Heritage Month calendar of events
Invited to by TAMIU Special Collections to give a public lecture on campus, entitled "Castas Among Us: The Black Heritage of Mexico and Its Borderlands,” as part of TAMIU's Black History Month program
public guest lecture “History at the Border: Hispanic Heritage on the Edges of Empire and Nation” as part of TAMIU’s first-annual Hispanic Heritage Month calendar of events