His current research focuses on colonial Latin American studies, critical race and ethnic studies, and the history of capitalism. He is the author of Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico (University of Texas Press, 2017), which traces the long history of spatial concentration as a technique of colonial governance, and has published articles in such journals as the Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Política Común, and Colonial Latin American Review.