Published Historical Work
(2025): “Forging New Histories: Disembodiment, Multiplicity, and Nostalgia in Crypto-Jewish and Chicana Poetics,” Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 46(1): 144-174.
(2024): “A Mosaic of Exchange: History, Memory, and Representation of Women in the Borderlands Captivity Archive,” Colonial Latin American Review 33(3): 347-376. Winner of the 2025 CLAH Paul Vanderwood Prize and the 2025 Colonial Latin American Review Franklin Pease Memorial Prize.
(2023): “Sound and Sense: Poetic Form and Translating Sor Juana’s Amor es más laberinto.” Comedia Performance 20(1): 118–127.
(2023): “Crypto-Jewish Poetry in New Mexico, post 1992.” In Jews Across the Americas: 1492-Present. New York: NYU Press.
(2023): Love is the Greater Labyrinth: A Comedy by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Newark, DE: Juan de la Cuesta. (co-translator)
(2021): “Historical Traces in Archival Poetry,” Journal of the History of Ideas Blog
Rachel Kaufman (2020): “Translating History,” Rethinking History
(2019): “Whispered Tradition: New Mexico crypto-Jewish Memory, Origins to 2007,” The Yale Historical Review
(2019): “The Myth of la Llave in crypto-Jewish Poetry,” Journal of the History of Ideas Blog
(2019): “The Myth of la Llave in Spanish Memory,” Journal of the History of Ideas Blog
Select Awards
Fulbright-Hays DDRA Award
Feinstein Center for American Jewish History, Temple University
Modern Language Association, Edward Giuliano Global Fellowship
American Academy for Jewish Research Dissertation Grant
Mex-Clásicos grant for transnational comedia theatrical production work
Dr. Elka Klein Memorial Travel Grant for dissertation research and travel
University of California Alianza Mexico Research Grant for dissertation research
American Jewish Historical Society, Fein-Lapidus Fellowship for research
Penny Kanner Dissertation Research Fellowship, Center for the Study of Women, UCLA
Mellon Endowment in Latin American Studies research grant, Latin American Institute, UCLA
Center for Early Global Studies (CMRS) Travel Grant, UCLA
Various research grants from the UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies
Edwin W. Small Prize in American History, Yale University
Salo W. and Jeannette M. Baron Student Research Grant, Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism
Joseph Lentilhon Selden Memorial Award, Yale University
Select Presentations
“De objeto a sujeto: la migración transatlántica de Esperanza Rodríguez,” Seminario Historiadoras de la Inquisición. Estudios del Santo Oficio en Femenino, la Universidad Andrés Bello.
“Baring our Seams: Translating the Archive through Poetry, or Talmudic Textiles.” British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies Conference. Bristol, England. (2024)
“A Kaleidoscopic Encounter: A Conversa’s Death Wishes in 17th-Century Mexico City.” Simposio Internacional de Estudios Inquisitoriales. Real Academia de Jurisprudencia y Legislación de España. Madrid, Spain. (2024)
“Diasporic Poets as Historical Method.” The Poetics of Memory: A Symposium and Conversation. University of Utah. (2023)
“History and Memory of Captivity: Women and Horses in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Borderlands.” Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. (2023)
“Translating History through Poetry: Diasporic Poetics and Archives of Absence.” Association for Jewish Studies Conference, Boston. (2022)
“Writing Sonnets for Diversifying Translations.” Diversifying in London Conference, Instituto Cervantes, London. (2022)
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