Berenice Tepozano smiling with a white railing behind her

Biography

Biography
o Email: tepozanb@uci.edu
o Degrees
MA in History from San Diego State University, 2021
BA in History and Global Cultures from University of California, Irvine, 2019
o Advisor: Dr. Rachel O’Toole
o First Field: Latin America
o Research Interests: Berenice's research is centered around discourses of race, class, and caste in eighteenth-century Mexico. Berenice is interested in examining how ideas of Christian superiority were manifested into legal discourse, religious practices, and social conventions to exclude Indigeneity and Blackness, in order to elevate "whiteness."