I am an Assistant Professor of World Christianities in the Religious Studies and Theology department at Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana.

Situated broadly between competing transatlantic discourses on maternal labor, my work examines the utility of milk and blood in Iberian and Andean discourses on religion and child rearing. 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 Christian processes of identity formation on both sides of the Atlantic. I received my PhD in Religion and Culture from the department of Religious Studies at UNC Chapel Hill. My dissertation was titled “Spilled Milk, Spilled Blood: Breastmilk, Race, and Religion in Transatlantic Spanish Empire.” I was fortunate to receive funding for my doctoral work as a 2024 Charlotte W. Newcombe doctoral dissertation fellow/Carpenter fellow. My previous archival research in Lima, Peru was 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 dissertation research in Sevilla, Spain was funded by the Society for Medieval Feminist Scholarship.

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