He is the author of Abolicionismo y tráfico de esclavos en Montevideo tras la fundación republicana (2009), and co-editor of Jacinto Ventura de Molina y los caminos de la escritura negra en el Río de la Plata (2008). He has published in the Hispanic American Historical Review, Colonial Latin American Review, Itinerario, Slavery and Abolition, and History in Africa. His current book manuscript, under contract with University of New Mexico Press, is entitled From Shipmates to Soldiers: Emerging Black Identities in the Río de la Plata, 1770-1850.