She received her PhD at Harvard University and her MA degree at the University of Texas Austin. As a Fulbright-Hays fellow and visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome, her research focuses on artistic exchanges between colonial Mexico, Peru, and Early Modern Europe. Current projects include an essay with Cambridge University Press titled “Time and Space on the Missionary Frontier: Cultural Dynamics and the Defense of Northern New Spain.” In Circa 1718: Mexican Art During San Antonio’s First Century. Edited by Marion Oettinger. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, in peer review and will be published by January 2018.