I was born in Spain and received my BA from the University of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, before moving to the United States, where I received an MA from the University of South Florida, and a PhD from the University of California, San Diego.
I teach surveys on World History (HIS 102) and Modern European History (HIS 241), as well as courses on the history of Spain (HIS 350) and the Spanish Civil War (HIS 300W), and senior seminars on Europe in the Interwar period (HIS 498C), and War and Memory (HIS 402).
My area of research is the history of modern Spain and Spanish diaspora communities in the Americas. I study the intersection of global migration, imperialism, nationalism, and ethnicity in the context of Spanish colonial history in the Americas, and how that legacy has shaped the history of modern Spain and its relationship to the Spanish diaspora.
As a graduate student at USF, I developed the Spanish Civil War Oral History Project to document the response of Tampa’s Latin Community to the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). My dissertation—“Conquerors, Immigrants, Exiles: The Spanish Diaspora in the United States (1848-1948)”—examined Spanish immigration within a transnational framework that highlighted the complex historical relationships between Spain, Latin America, and the United States. My co-edited volume (with Phylis Cancilla Martinelli), Hidden Out in the Open: Spanish Migration to the United States (1875-1930) is forthcoming with the University Press of Colorado. I am currently working on a study of the relations between the Cuban and Spanish diasporas in the United States during the Cuban war of Independence (1895-1898), and a history of Spanish migration to Florida at the turn of the twentieth century.