Current Member
María Bárbara Zepeda Cortés
John Elliott Member
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of Study
Politics / Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire
Home Institution
Lehigh University
Website
María Bárbara Zepeda Cortés’ research centers on reformist movements and the Spanish Enlightenment. At IAS, she will be completing the long-awaited biography of José de Gálvez, an eighteenth-century Spanish stateman, who directed a program of wide-reaching reforms that transformed the lives of peoples around the globe.
Dates at IAS
Member
School of Historical Studies
–
Degrees
University of California, San Diego
Ph.D.
2013
University of California, San Diego
M.A.
2007
El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico
B.A.
2003
Honors
2023–24
Year-Long Membership, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey
2023-24
Long-Term Research Fellowship, John Carter Brown Library, Providence, RI (deferred to 2024-25)
2023-24
Fulbright-García Robles Social Sciences and Humanities research grant for Mexico (declined)
2016-17
Long-Term Research Fellowship, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
Appointments
Lehigh University
2020
Associate Professor
Lehigh University
2013–2020
Assistant Professor
The Huntington Library
2016–2017
Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellow