Her field of research is the Society of Jesus in the late sixteenth century, a theme that connects three major areas of her academic background: colonial Latin American history, early modern history, and Ming China. Her book The Jesuit Missions to China and Peru (1570-1610). Expectations and Appraisals of Expansionism will appear in March 2013. Last year, as a postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute, she began her new research project: ‘The circulation of the Art of memory throughout the Jesuit missions in the late sixteenth century’.