Diego Javier Luis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Tufts University. Luis comes to Tufts from Davidson College where he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Humanities Program, History Department, and Latin American Studies. He has a book under contract with Harvard University Press, The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific History, and has published peer-reviewed articles in journals including The Americas: A Quarterly Review of Latin American History, Ethnohistory, and the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History. He received his PhD in History from Brown University.