Marcos Pérez Cañizares is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History. He focuses on Colonial Latin America, and his dissertation is a spatial history of the North Pacific and the Pacific Northwest within the Spanish Empire from the 1600s to the 1810s. It examines the two century spanning construction of a Spanish North Pacific space that was intimately tied to Continental North America. He was born in Havana, grew up in Toronto, and is happy to join LACS to help enrich the intellectual community of Latin Americanists and Caribbeanists at Cornell.