I am an educator and a researcher who teaches history and linguistics. I owe a debt to my Nahuatl teachers from Tecomate and Tepecxitla, and my professors, colleagues, and staff from UCLA, Calstate Fullerton, Calstate Los Angeles, Santa Monica College, Universidad de Guadalajara, and Colegio de Jalisco. These influences, as well as my experiences as an immigrant to California, have led me to focus on different subjects, including Indigenous writers from the 1500s and 1600s, the construction of race in Latin America, the Mesoamerican Ballgame Tradition, and labor systems in modern (1800 to 2000) and pre-modern (Antiquity to 1800) contexts.
Publications
- 2026 - “Timotocayotilo Totoramis: A Ladino Nahuatlato and the Totoramis of Western New Spain” in Cihuatlampa: Náhuatl de y en el occidente de México.
- 2020 - “Toltecness: Tollan and the Toltecs in the Codex Xolotl and Historia de la Nacion Chichimeca” in Lenguas yutoaztecas: historia, estructuras y contacto lingüístico, Homenaje a Karen Dakin.
- 2018 - “Mayordomos y Tenantzitzihuan: Oficiales de la Cofradía de la Virgen de la Inmaculada Concepción en el Oeste y Noroeste de Nueva España,” in La expansión de los franciscanos en el norte y el occidente de México, Siglos xvi-xix.
- 2016 - “Entre la lengua mexicana y la mera mexicana: El náhuatl de Juan Guerra, D. Gerónimo Tomas de Aquino Cortés y Zedeño, y escribanos de la provincia de Ávalos, ca. 1600 a 1765” in Colección Lenguas Indígenas 5: El náhuatl del obispado de Guadalajara a través de las obras de los autores fray Juan Guerra (1692) y el bachiller Gerónimo Cortés y Zedeño (1765).
- 2014 - “Where Bilingualism Mattered: Nahuatl on the Western and Northern Frontiers of New Spain” in Voices 2(1)
- 2011 - “Lord 8 Deer’s Beard: The Mesoamerican Ballgame Tradition and its Protective Equipment” in LiSA 16: Tradition and Innovation in Mesoamerican Cultural History, A Homage to Tatiana A. Proskouriakoff.