I am an associate member of the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford and an associated researcher in the Global Correspondent Banking 1870–2000 (GloCoBank) project funded by the European Research Council. I previously worked on GloCoBank as a postdoctoral researcher, and the project continues to inform my research on correspondent banking networks and cross-border payment infrastructures.
I hold a licenciatura (B.Sc.) in Economics from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a Ph.D. in United States History from Columbia University. My dissertation, “Gold and Silver Chains: The New Orleans Specie Market under International Bimetallism, 1839–1861,” received the Best Dissertation Award from the Nineteenth Century Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), and was a finalist for the Herman E. Krooss Prize of the Business History Conference (BHC).
I have taught undergraduate and graduate courses and supervised students at UNAM, Columbia, the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE), and Oxford. Since 2020, I have served as a convener of the Financial History Network. Outside academia, I worked as lead historian on projects commemorating the 150th anniversary of a global investment bank while serving as a Winthrop Group consultant (2018–2020). I am also a contributing writer for CashEssentials, a platform focused on retail payments and monetary ecosystems.