She is an economic historian of Latin America, her research focus is the history of inequality in living standards and author of Measuring Up: A History of Living Standards in Mexico 1850-1950 (Stanford University Press 2012) winner of the 2013 Mexican History Book Prize awarded by the Conference in Latin American History with the edition in Spanish Published by Fondo de Cultura Económica in 2015. She holds a Licentiate degree in economics from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and a Ph.D. in history from Stanford University. 2017 Rice University Humanities Research Center