Maria Barbara Zepeda Cortes was promoted to Associate Professor of History at Lehigh University this May 2020. She published the following book chapter: Zepeda Cortés, María Bárbara, “José’s Secrets: Minister Gálvez’s Master Plan for Spain’s Participation in the American Revolution.” In Spain and the American Revolution: New Approaches and Perspectives, Gabriel Paquette and Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia, eds. (New York: Routledge University Press, 2020), 77–90.
Then, she published two conference papers, presenting “America as a Vocation: José de Gálvez’s Early Ideas of Empire, 1760–1766” at the 67th Annual Conference of the Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies, in Austin, TX, in March 2020.
Also, in November, Zepeda Cortés presented a paper titled “The Visitor’s New Clothes: A Look into José de Gálvez’s Wardrobe in 1765 and What It Tells Us About Power,” at the (virtual) International Conference “La representación del poder de las élites en el Antiguo Régimen (siglos XVI–XVIII): Ceremonia, Magnificencia y Ostentación,” organized by the Autonomous University of Madrid and the Carlos III University in Spain. At that conference, Prof. Zepeda received an award for “best conference presentation” and was appointed honorary member of the Spanish Asociación de Jóvenes Modernistas (Association of Early-Modern Junior Scholars)
Lastly, Professor Zepeda Cortés gave an invited (virtual) lecture “Historia de una investigación: la biografía del ministro español, José de Gálvez, siglo XVIII,” at the Department of History of the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo in Morelia, México, in August 2020. After which she was immediately invited to give an in-person lecture for the Bernardo de Gálvez Association in Málaga, Spain, next November (postponed until May 2021, if the pandemic allows it).
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