I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Religion and Culture concentration in the department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Situated broadly between competing transatlantic discourses on maternal labor, my work examines the utility of milk and blood in medieval and early modern Iberian and Andean discourses on religious identity. I employ an interdisciplinary approach that draws on my training in Religious Studies, History, and Spanish literature to analyze the connection between the racialization of body fluids and expectations/extractions of maternal labor on both sides of the Atlantic. As a 2024 Charlotte W. Newcombe doctoral dissertation fellow/Carpenter fellow, I am currently finishing my dissertation at UNC titled “Spilled Milk, Spilled Blood: Breastmilk, Race, and Religion in Transatlantic Spanish Empire.” My archival research in Lima, Peru is funded by the program in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) at UNC through the Gilman research and travel grant. As a Foremothers fellow, my work in Sevilla, Spain is funded by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship.

I have ongoing teaching experience as an instructor, guest lecturer, research consultant, and teaching assistant in addition to my previous work as a research fellow at the Center for the Study of Religion and the City as a digital archive research assistant.