I am a Ph.D. Candidate in History at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, where I study Mexican ethnohistory during the late Aztec and early colonial periods. My work focuses on the Nahuatl annals, alphabetic histories based on glyphic and oral accounts that were written down by the Aztecs and their neighbors after the Spanish invasion. My dissertation project, “A Nahua Family History: Kinship, Colonialism, and Indigenous Historiography in Amaquemecan Chalco, 1465-1630,” uses the annals to examine local politics, colonial relations, and kinship through the history of one Nahua family as they weathered Aztec conquest, the arrival of the Spaniards, and the imposition of colonial rule and Christian religion. I explore how Indigenous leaders shaped history through their most intimate decisions: marriage, childrearing, and family quarrels and reconciliations. My research and training have been supported by Dumbarton Oaks, multiple Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships, and the Rutgers Center for Latin America Studies. Find my Department profile here.