She used GIS to map processions and festivals in XVII century Spain her most recent book, The Comedia of Virginity: Mary and the Politics of Seventeenth-Century Spanish Theater. She is currently working on The Politics of Feast and Space: Academic Festival Books and the Rise of Institutional Power in Early Modern Spain and Spanish America. This past Spring semester she designed a class assignment using NVIVO for textual analysis of Don Quixote. She is planning to develop a website with OMEKA for her seminar “Designing Empire: Plazas, Power and Urban Planning in Habsburg Spain and its colonies”.