I am a second-year PhD student in the Department of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. My research explores the intersection of political economy and memory studies, with a regional focus on Tunisia and Algeria between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

My project examines memory as both a biological and cultural process, revealing its entanglement with environmental, economic, and political forces. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach that integrates oral history, epigenetics, political ecology, and neuroscience, my work attempts to bridge the divide between historical, economic, and biological studies of memory.

I am also a digital humanities practitioner. I am a member of Neogranadina, a Colombian non-profit digital humanities foundation, where I collaborate in the development of hardware and software, and on the creation of digital archives, tools, and resources to make the use and study of these materials possible in new and different ways. I also serve as the Lab Manager of AmpLab the Archive, Memory, and Preservation Laboratory hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara.  My work in digital humanities focuses mostly on Latin America, and Colombia specifically.

Beyond my research, I serve as the Graduate Coordinator for the Centre for Middle East Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara, where I contribute to fostering interdisciplinary engagement in the field among graduate students. 

Hist 4A History of the Ancient Mediterranean

HIST 46B History of the Modern Middle East

Hist 146 History of the Modern Middle East: History, Historiography, and Archives 

Hist 17B: History of the United States

Hist 8A: History of Precolonial Latin America

Hist 56B: History of Modern Mexico

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