Education

Since 05/2025	PhD Candidate, International Research Training Group ‘Temporalities of Future’
Since 08/2021	PhD Fellow in History, Centro de Estudios Históricos, El Colegio de México, Mexico
08/ 2019 – 04/2022	Master in History, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
08/2013 – 05/2018	Bachelor in History, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico

 

Work experience

Since 05/2025	Researcher, International Research Training Group ‘Temporalities of Future’
10/2024 – 08/2025	University lecturer at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Iztapalapa, México (half time)

Project: "The General Accounting Office of Propios, Arbitrio Taxes and Communal Assets. Tax Reform and Local Tax Offices in New Spain, 1760-1810"

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This doctoral project analyzes the establishment, functions, and scope of the General Accounting Office of Propios, Arbitrio Taxes, and Communal Assets in New Spain between 1760 and 1810. This institution was created by the Bourbon monarchy to centralize and control the municipal finances of Indigenous towns and Spanish city councils. Based on the analysis of fiscal sources, regulations, and administrative correspondence, the project examines various tax reforms and the multiple temporalities of the future envisioned by imperial authorities and local actors. It explores how such reforms projected an administrative and fiscal future from an imperial logic, while also contributing to the imagination and construction of local practices of anticipation and foresight aimed at avoiding external fiscal oversight.The project further engages with categories such as project, reform, aspiration, and anticipation as ways of imagining and organizing the political and fiscal future of the empire—dimensions present in the discourses and practices of both individual and collective actors. In that sense, the research contributes to a broader reflection on how colonial institutions and local actors shaped or responded to fiscal temporal regimes emerging from Enlightenment-inspired reformism.

Book Reviews

Hernández Tocohua, Elías. 2024. Review of Historia y memoria de los huracanes y otros episodios hidrometeorológicos extremos en México. Cinco siglos: del año 5 Pedernal a Janet, ed., by Virginia García Acosta and Raymundo Padilla Lozoya. Signos Históricos 26, no. 51 (enero–junio): 380- 386. https://signoshistoricos.izt.uam.mx/index.php/historicos/article/view/937/807.

Hernández Tocohua, Elías. 2023. Review of Los últimos años de la Reforma Agraria Mexicana, 1971–1991. Una historia política desde el Noroeste, by Luis Aboites Aguilar. Historia Mexicana 74, no. 2: 974–978. https://doi.org/10.24201/hm.v74i2.4610.