I am an Assistant Professor of Political Science at MIT.

Within comparative politics, my research focuses on state-building, ideological change, and scientific innovation. I study these topics in Western European and Latin American history.

I hold a PhD in Political Science from Stanford University (2022). I am originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, where I received a B.A. from Universidad de San Andrés (2014) and a M.A. from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (2017).

202x. "Oppression Beyond Plantations: The Effect of Emancipation on Incarceration in Urban Buenos Aires." Journal of Politics (with Guadalupe Tuñón)

202x. "Does Proportionality Increase Turnout? A Study of Adaptation to Oscillating Electoral Systems." Comparative Political Studies

2025. "The Inquisition and the Decline of Science in Spain." Explorations in Economic History 98 (with Gary W. Cox)

2025. "The Opposite of Containment: Electoral System Change in Argentina's 1912 Democratic Transition." Latin American Politics and Society 67(3)

2025. "Agglomeration and Creativity in Early Modern Britain." Explorations in Economic History 95: 1-18 (with Gary W. Cox)

2023. "The Protestant Road to Bureaucracy." World Politics 75(2): 390-437.

2021. "Political Corruption Cycles: High-Frequency Evidence from Argentina's Notebooks Scandal." Comparative Political Studies 54 (3-4): 482-517.

2021. "The Consolidation of Royal Control: Evidence from Northern Castile, 1352-1787." European Review of Economic History 25(3): 447-466.

2021. "Political Fragmentation, Rural-to-Urban Migration and Urban Growth Patterns in Western Eurasia, 800-1800." European Review of Economic History 25(2): 203-222 (with Gary W. Cox)

2016. "Electoral Proximity and the Political Involvement of Bureaucrats: A Natural Experiment in Argentina, 1904." Journal of Politics in Latin America 8(1): 69-94.

Selected work in progress

"Structural Transformation and Value Change: The British Abolitionist Movement" (with Vasiliki Fouka)

"Europe's Little Divergence in Urban Knowledge Economies" (with Gary W. Cox)