Researcher and professor at the International Institute of Caribbean Studies in the Universidad de Cartagena (Colombia). Ph.D. in Latin American History at the University of Connecticut. His dissertation titled: The Battle for Paradise: Tourism Development, Race, and Popular Politics in Cartagena (Colombia), 1942-1984, discusses the remaking of Cartagena as a tourist destination, the rise of the informal city, and the racial interpretations over the urban change that Cartagena went through during the twentieth century.