Hi there

I am historian of modern Latin America. I am an economic historian, and I am for want of a better term, a digital historian.

I wrote a book about financial networks in Yucatan, Mexico in the nineteenth century, and am working on another one about credit associations. My current projects are collaborative and digital and international. MX.Digital is a collective of scholars and practitioners working on and in Mexico. We produced Archivomex – a collection of historical statistics of Mexico online for anyone to download and use, and created some easy to download visualizations. We also created Atlas.MX which aims to get scholars to collaborate on using historical data to create new maps – and to agree on the best way to make those maps and share them.

I use digital tools to teach, and I teach online.

I encourage the use of laptops, tablets, games and phones and and anything else that is helpful in class.

With the help of colleagues I created learning game called Digital Zombies,  that is also an ongoing digital project that combines research methods, digital literacy and critical thinking. I used to work a lot on Virtual and Augmented Reality and explored how it could change how we teach and think. These days I focus more on any kind of interactive and enhanced visual learning a collaborating platforms and tools.