Professor Levy's teaching and research is informed by her academic pursuits, her previous careers in international banking and traditional media, and her numerous years living in Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela. Prior to receiving her Ph.D. in History from UCLA, Levy received her Master's in Economic History from the London School of Economics and spent the next 4 years working in New York and Mexico City. Currently, Dr Levy is revising her first book for publication, which studies the economic role of notaries in Yucatan's nineteenth century agricultural and trade boom. The book is part of a larger project that researches the making of economic markets in Latin America within their legal, social, cultural and ethnic contexts. Dr Levy was a fellow of the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame in 2004, and is a member of the Latin American Studies program and the Legal Studies Symposium at UCR.