Member Profiles

I was born and raised in Montevideo, where I learnt how to cook asado (communal, open-woodfire-grilled beef) and took a masters degree in Economic History at Universidad de la República. I also spent time studying at the UN's Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago (Chile) before taking an MPhil (with Distinction) at Cambridge. I am now a PhD candidate in Economic History at King's College, Cambridge and the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure (CAMPOP), as well as an affiliated researcher with the Uruguay's National Agency for Research and Innovation (ANII).

I am an economic historian of Latin America, with a particular interest in the economic geography of the River Plate region since the late-colonial period. My work looks at the intersection of economic and environmental processes, focusing on natural resources, energy, and agriculture. My doctoral research explores the economic strategies and spatial locations of livestock production in Uruguay before 1914, trying to reframe 'modernization' (since 1870) in the context of preceding history. I am particularly interested in tracing the origins and development of regional inequalities within Uruguay, in the context of the divergent trajectories of Latin American economies.