Ph.D. in History from New York University. She is a professor-researcher in the Sociology Department of FLACSO Ecuador. Her research and teaching areas involve an interdisciplinary dialogue between Historiography y Historical and Comparative Sociology. She studies state reform, the origins of social rights, the formation of leftist groups, and the national-popular tendencies that came to the fore during the crisis of the period between the world wars. Her most recent publications are: “Volver al archivo: de las fantasías decoloniales a la imaginación republicana,” written with Luciana Cadahia, published in 2021 in Teorías de la República y Prácticas Republicanas, by Editorial Herder Barcelona. She is also the author of “The Ecuadorian Left during Global Crisis: Republican Democracy, Class Struggle and State Formation (1919-1946),” published in 2020 in Words of Power, the Power of Words. The Twentieth-Century Communist Discourse in International Perspective, by Edizioni Università di Trieste.