I’m an autonomous academic and a freelance writer and researcher. A historian and sometime-anthropologist by training, I’ve written about and taught university courses on the Latin American revolutions, the Mexican drug trade, and Indigenous political and social movements.

My first book is the story of how and why some of the most politically independent and culturally distinct Indigenous peoples in Mexico helped to shape the Mexican Revolution. It was published in English in 2020, and will be published in Spanish in autumn 2025. You can find out more about it here, and buy a copy for yourself here.

I’m currently writing a second book about Mexican militias. You can find out more about this project by clicking here.

I’ve also written extensively about the Mexican drug trade and the history of the Indigenous Gran Nayar region of western Mexico.

Side projects have included a study of the Indigenous Mayangna people of Nicaragua and their role in the Sandinista Revolution and subsequent Civil War; and curating an album of lovingly restored and quite frankly mind-blowing Roma music from the Former Yugoslavia.