About

I'm a historian and higher-education administrator based in Jersey City, New Jersey.

My academic work focused on the cultural history of Brazil, particularly the ways ordinary people create, negotiate, and experience culture in everyday life.

I now work in higher education administration, where my interests have taken a somewhat different form. I’m drawn to the practical work of building and sustaining academic programs: managing resources, developing new initiatives, working across institutional boundaries, and creating the conditions in which teaching, research, and public engagement can happen. I currently serve as Assistant Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU Arts & Science, where I oversee the center’s operations and graduate program.

I remain interested in the relationship between institutions and the people who inhabit them. Perhaps unsurprisingly, I’ve also found myself drawn to environments where I have a great deal more to learn.

Outside the university, I’m a recreational diver. I began diving while conducting doctoral research in Brazil and have gradually become more interested in cold-water, freshwater, and drysuit diving. Diving has become another way of remaining a student: learning unfamiliar environments, refining skills, understanding equipment, and becoming comfortable with problems that cannot always be solved from the surface.

A certification is a license to learn. That idea has come to describe rather well how I approach both work and life.

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