Chile. PhD in History and academic at the Department of History of the Alberto Hurtado University, where he teaches in the area of the history of Chile and Latin America. He has conducted research on the history of popular culture, crime, justice, and the police. Among his notable publications are the books Thieves: Social History and Culture of Theft in Chile, 1870-1920 (2011); Order and the Lower Classes: The Regimes of Portales and Rosas Confronting the Popular World 1829-1852 (co-authored with Julio Pinto, Karen Donoso, and Roberto Pizarro, 2015); Devils Are Mortals: The Work of the Popular Poet Daniel Meneses (compilation and studies with Micaela Navarrete, 2008); He Who Laughs Last… Cartoons and Poetry in 19th-Century Chilean Humorous Press (with Maximiliano Salinas, Christian Báez, and Marina Donoso, 2001); and, as editor, Criminals, Police, and Courts: Latin America, 19th and 20th Centuries (2015).