Daniel Nemser

Daniel Nemser is an Associate Professor of Spanish at the University of Michigan, specializing in colonial Latin American studies. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (2011). His research focuses on race, materiality, political economy, and indigenous studies/Nahuatl within the context of Spanish colonialism. Nemser is affiliated with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and serves on the LACS Faculty and Brazil Initiative Advisory Committee.

His first book, Infrastructures of Race: Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico (2017), examines how spatial concentration techniques shaped racial categories and colonial governance. Current research explores the colonial history of logistics through road networks in 16th-century Mexico. Nemser's work bridges historical analysis with critical theories of race, capitalism, and colonial spatiality.

Recent publications include contributions to Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, History of the Present, and Colonial Latin American Review, addressing topics like the Iberian slave trade, racialization processes, and archival methodologies. His scholarship emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to colonial history.