My interdisciplinary research lies at the nexus between medical geography, political ecology, and the history of public health, with a regional focus on Latin America. Main areas of research interest include the political ecology of infectious and vector-borne diseases; environmental and social history of disease control; social medicine and public health in Latin America; and the biopolitics of public health interventions.<\/p>\n
My first book,\u00a0Enemy in the Blood: Malaria, Environment, and Development in Argentina\u00a0<\/em>(2012), received the Elinor Melville Prize for best book in Latin American Environmental History from the Conference on Latin American History. My second book,\u00a0In Pursuit of Health Equity: A History of Latin American Social Medicine<\/em>\u00a0(2023) is the result of seven years of research, mainly in Argentina, Chile, and Costa Rica, supported by fellowships from the US Fulbright Scholar Program and the American Council of Learned Societies.<\/p>\n I hold\u00a0a Bachelor’s degree in History from the University of California, Berkeley (1994), and a Master’s (1999) and PhD (2005) in Geography from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. I joined the Macalester faculty in 2012.<\/p>\n You can learn more about me, including my research profile and class projects, on my personal webpage\u00a0here<\/a>. Or check out my\u00a0Google Scholar profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n GEOG 249: Environment and Society in Latin America<\/p>\n GEOG 256: Health Geography<\/p>\n GEOG 258: Geography of Environmental Hazards<\/p>\n GEOG 368: Health GIS<\/p>\n GEOG 475: Health Geography Seminar<\/p>\nCourses<\/h2>\n