I am a Ph.D. Candidate at the History Department. I currently study the intersection between economic history and the history of economics in modern Latin America and the intertwined processes of regionalization and globalization in the postwar era. Within Latin America, I specialize in the history of Brazil, Chile, and Colombia. My broader research and teaching interests include the history of capitalism, the history of the social sciences, and the political economy of higher education and research. I am especially concerned with the role of intellectuals and experts in processes of social transformation.

My dissertation, The Latin American Experience with Development: Social Sciences, Economic Policies, and the Making of a Global Order, 1944-1973, examines the policy and intellectual endeavors of Latin American social scientists associated with the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA in English and CEPAL in Spanish). Through the Commission, regional economists, sociologists, and policymakers journeyed within the South and to the global North, from national bureaucracies to international agencies, and from political intervention to intellectual abstraction, resulting in the imagining, consolidation, and later disenchantment with theories and projects of economic development, social change, and the region’s relation to the global economy. The dissertation explores the interplay between financial and monetary experiments, international cooperation initiatives, and the sociology of knowledge to explain the paradox of a global institution endorsing a regional economic model and a global perspective coming from the periphery of the world economy.

I received a B.A. in History in 2007 and B.A. cum laude in Economics in 2008 from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. I worked as a researcher, consultant, and administrator in higher education projects in Colombia before coming to Princeton.

Dissertation Title:

"The Latin American Experience with Development: Social Sciences, Economic Policies, and the Making of a Global Order, 1944-1971"