I'm a PhD candidate in the Committee on the Study of Religion; I also have a Secondary Field in Romance Languages and Literatures. I received a B.A. in Religion and Interpretation Theory from Swarthmore College in 2009 and a M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School in 2012. I grew up in Manhattan (on the Upper East Side, alas), and I've lived in Rabat, Tunis, Madrid, Granada, Somerville, Berlin, Brooklyn, and Montreal.

My heart's in two places. On the one hand, I work on the history of religion in the late medieval and early modern Chrisiian West, especially Spain. My dissertation -- currently titled "Bad Milk: Race as Religion in Early Modern Spain" -- considers changing conceptions of the transmission of "religion" (or something like it) within a variety of sources, including agricultural treatises, Inquisition trials, medical autobiographies, poems, pedagogical manuals, Aljamiado literature (i.e. Castilian and Aragonese written using the Arabic alphabet), and miscelánea. "Religion," I argue, here, is deeply tangled up with raza -- race, almost -- a word that was newly being appropriated by Spanish Christians to account for the kinds of Muslimness and Jewishness lodged in certain bodily fabrics. And race was deeply tangled up with motherly influence: mainly, milk.

On the other hand, I can't help it: I'm interested in continental philosophy and psychoanalysis.