Matthew Kocsan is a doctoral candidate at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the Department of History, studying sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish history. Currently based in his native Cleveland, he is working on his dissertation in local coffee shops. You can follow him on twitter, at @thehispanist, where he is a charming, general conversationalist, but he also has a very cute dog, so it’s worth it.