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Honorary Senior Research Fellow

Cardiff University

Developing the AHRC project proposal 'Mapping Enslavement and Forced Labour in Colonial Latin America: Using AI to Unveil Hidden Slavery Sites and Experiences' (under evaluation).

• Merging slavery studies with AI and data mining to transform colonial slavery research
• AI-driven historical analysis
• Colonial Latin America Slavery
• Digital Humanities

Research Collaborator - New Spain Fleets Project

Lancaster University

Spanish Palaeography and Digital Humanities expert applying AI methods including Handwritten Text Recognition through Transkribus platform.

• HTR technology
• Spanish Paleography

Research Associate Fellow

Centre de recherches sur les mondes Américains (EHESS)

Research fellowship at a leading French institution for advanced social science research.

• Advanced research collaboration
• International partnerships

Senior Research Associate - Native Bound Unbound

School for Advanced Research

Created open-source central repository on enslaved Indigenous Peoples in the Americas. $1.5M Mellon Foundation Grant project.

• Indigenous Slavery
• Indigenous History Databases
• Colonial Rio de la Plata

Teaching Fellow in Colonial Latin American History

University of Leeds

Module Leader for Gender and Slavery in Latin America, and Sin in Spanish America. Taught undergraduate and graduate courses on colonial Latin America History.

• Course leadership
• Graduate teaching
• Paleography workshops

CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow for Data Curation

Brown University - John Carter Brown Library

Created groundbreaking Latin American and Caribbean Indigenous Languages digital project that offers access to one of the most voluminous repositories of Indigenous Languages manuscripts and books produced during the colonial period.

• Digital project creation
• International standards
• Indigenous language preservation

Ministry Counsellor

Secretaría Nacional de Cultura del Paraguay

Coordination of the international cooperation between France and Paraguay for the creation of a Paraguayan school of Archeology. Led the cooperation South-South between Colombia and Paraguay for training staff of the National Archive of Asuncion. Organization of the International Conference on the Golden Book in 2018. Led UNESCO Indigenous Languages Year 2019 organization in Paraguay. Organization of workshops and meetings with scholars and Indigenous Peoples in Paraguay.

• Cooperation South-South between Colombia and Paraguay
• Cooperation between France and Paraguay
• UNESCO coordination
• International event organization
• Cultural policy development

Ph.D.

Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle Paris III

Hispanic and Latin American Studies

• The Settlement of a marginal society - Letters and Actions of the clergy during the Conquest of Paraguay (1537-1580)
• Director: Prof. Bernard Lavallé

MA

Université Aix-Marseille

Hispanic and Latin American Studies

• The Conquest of Paraguay through Domingo Martínez de Irala's letters (1545-1555)
• Director: Prof. Gérard Gomez

Exchange

Universidad de Granada

ERASMUS Student Exchange Program

BA

Université Aix-Marseille

Hispanic and Latin American Studies

• Language, Literature, and Cultures specialization

Presidential Recognition for Manuscript Repatriation

President Santiago Peña Palacios, Republic of Paraguay

Personal recognition by Paraguay's President for scientific consulting on repatriating stolen 16th-century manuscripts from the United States.

Best Cultural Item of the Year

El Tiempo de Bogotá, Colombia

Book 'Entre la pluma y la cruz' selected as one of the best cultural items of 2018.

CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship

Council on Library and Information Resources

Competitive fellowship for data curation in Latin American and Caribbean Indigenous Languages at Brown University.

El Paraguay colonial, ¿una 'isla rodeada de tierra'? Movimientos transcontinentales y transoceánicos en la ciudad de Asunción (siglos XVI-XVII)

Revista Historia Autónoma

Questions the traditional view of colonial Paraguay as isolated, examining transcontinental movements through Asunción in the 16th-17th centuries.

The 'mujeres enamoradas': Prostitution, Amancebamiento and Marriage in Sixteenth-Century Rio de la Plata

Revista Estudios Paraguayos

Examines the role of women in conquest society, analyzing prostitution, informal unions, and marriage patterns.

Entre la pluma y la cruz - El clérigo Martín González y la desconocida historia de su defensa de los indios del Paraguay

Editorial Tiempo de Historia

Transcribes and studies letters of priest Martín González who defended the Guarani from Spanish abuses (1542-1564).

Lenguas y pueblos tupí-guaraníes en las fuentes de los siglos XVI y XVII

Mélanges de la Casa de Velázquez

Foundational study examining Tupí-Guaraní languages and peoples in 16th-17th century sources with Bartomeu Melià.

Indigenous Echoes - Rio de la Plata

Social media initiative promoting Indigenous history and decolonizing historical narratives with 5,300+ followers across Facebook and Bluesky.

• Public engagement
• Social media strategy
• Historical education

Latin American and Caribbean Indigenous Languages Digital Project

Groundbreaking digital project at JCB that reshaped international data curation standards for Indigenous materials.

• International standards
• Community collaboration
• Digital preservation