Biography
Email: tepozanb@uci.edu
Degrees: MA in History from University of California, Irvine, 2024
MA in History from San Diego State University, 2021
BA in History and Global Cultures from University of California, Irvine, 2019
Advisor: Dr. Rachel O’Toole
First Field: Latin America
Research Interests: History of Colonial Latin America, Histories of Race and Gender, Colonialism, Medicalization, Space, and Seclusion
Dissertation title (tentative): "The Politics of Reproduction: Contesting Mothers and Bourbon Recogimiento in Mexico City, 1740–1810,"
Berenice's research investigates the history of reproduction in eighteenth-century Mexico through the intertwined lenses of race, gender, religiosity, and space. Specifically, their dissertation seeks to examine how urban women of Indigenous and African descent during the eighteenth century tumultuous Bourbon Reforms struggled to protect, defend, and articulate matriarchal authority.