My research and teaching program is organized around the theme of ‘politics beyond the human’. Broadly conceived, my work seeks to expand the realm of the political beyond both anthropocentrism and humanism. It does so by learning from and engaging with alternative ways of relating to the multiplicity of beings, ecosystems, and interconnected webs of life on Earth. My main goal is to extend ethics and politics beyond dominant understandings of ‘the human’, and thus to deparochialize and to ecologize political thought.

More specifically, my current research agenda centers on Aztec (Mexica), Nahua, and, more broadly, Mesoamerican thought. This research seeks to articulate Aztec thought as a generative contribution to foundational questions about nature, reality, existence, causality, time, space, identity, personhood, and the relation between mind and body. It aims to render the Aztec cosmovision legible to a political theory audience and, in doing so, to demonstrate its potential for rethinking ethical and political questions about how to live well in and with the world. In this sense, the project contributes to decolonization by amplifying the vitality of Aztec ideas and enabling them to circulate, be engaged with, and have impact within political theory in ways comparable to those afforded to Euro-Western traditions.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta.

I am also a member of the Groupe de Recherche en Éthique Environnementale et Animale. I was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre de Recherche en Éthique & the CRC in Feminist Ethics (2022-2023), and a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at McGill University (2020-2022). I received my PhD in Political Theory from the University of Victoria, British Columbia (2020). I was born and raised in Mexico City.