Global environmental history (esp. climate, disasters, marine environment, conservation, tropics), Latin America since 1750 (esp. Andes , Cuba ), History of science (esp. meteorology, climatology, oceanography, ecology), History of technology (esp. expertise, aviation, agriculture, fishing, highway engineering), Pacific Ocean

“¿De qué color es el oro?: Race, Environment, and the History of Cuban National Music . ” Latin American Music Review 26, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2005): in press.

“ Bergen South: The Americanization of the Meteorology Profession in Latin America during World War II.” In From Beaufort to Bjerknes and Beyond: Critical Perspectives on Observing, Analyzing and Predicting Weather and Climate , edited by Cornelia Lüdecke, Hans Volkert, and Stefan Emeis. Munich : Erwin Rauner Verlag, in press.

“‘The Most Valuable Birds in the World': International Conservation Science and the Revival of Peru 's Guano Industry, 1909-1965.” Environmental History 10, no. 3 (July 2005): 477-509.

HIST/EVRN 103 Environment & History
HIST 121 Modern Latin America , Historical Methods
HIST/EVRN 635 Invention of the Tropics
HIST 696 Seminar on the Colonial and Postcolonial World

Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin (2003)