Assistant Director of CUNY Dominican Studies Institute.M.A. in History from The City College of New York. B.A. in History of the Americas from the University of Seville, Spain. Joined CUNY DSI in 2004. Specializes in research on sixteenth-century La Española, with a focus on the social world of cane-sugar making and plantations. Has ample research experience with sixteenth-century archival documents. Leads CUNY DSI projects related to the colonial period of Dominican society.