I am an economic historian who studies the interactions between agrarian development, institutions, and environmental change.

I teach at the Social Sciences Department, Carlos III University of Madrid.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS (2024-25)

→ ‘Environment, Slavery, and Agency in Colonial Uruguay, 1750-1810,’ Past & Present. [link]

→ ‘What happened to the workshop of West Africa? Resilience and decline of handicraft textiles in colonial Northern Nigeria, 1911-1952,’ Economic History Review (with T. Westland) [link]

→ ‘Green Growth in the Mirror of History’, Nature Communications (with J. Infante-Amate and E. Aguilera) [link]

→ ‘The history of a + 3 °C future: Global and regional drivers of greenhouse gas emissions (1820–2050)’, Global Environmental Change (with J. Infante-Amate and E. Aguilera) [link]

→ ‘Unsustainable prosperity? Decoupling wellbeing, economic growth, and greenhouse gas emissions over the past 150 years’, World Development (with J. Infante-Amate and E. Aguilera). [link]

→ ‘Historical changes in Mediterranean rural settlements (Southern Spain, 1787-2019),' Journal of Rural Studies (with J. Infante-Amate and J.L. Martínez de la Fuente) [link]