Alex Hidalgo is associate professor of Latin American history at TCU with an interest in archives, New World print and manuscript culture, ethnography, and the history of cartography. He is the author of Trail of Footprints: A History of Indigenous Maps from Viceregal Mexico (University of Texas Press, 2019), an analysis of Mesoamerican and Spanish ideas of placemaking, memory, and knowledge. He is currently at work on his second book, Mexican Soundscapes of the Colonial Era, a study that considers the way ethnic diversity and racial difference influenced understanding of sound and listening. Hidalgo’s work has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Ford Foundation, and the Library of Congress. He is a member of the Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography and he collects out-of-print archival catalogs, bibliographies, and art treatises related to Mexico's colonial past.