I am currently an Assistant Professor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Beginning in 2025, I will join the Department of Political Science at MIT as an Assistant Professor.

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

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 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)