Rebeca Martinez-Tibbles
Biography
Rebeca Martínez is a PhD Candidate specializing in the history of women in colonial Mexico. Her dissertation examines the relationship between women and bigamy from the 16th to the 18th century.
Current/Former HGSA Member
Advanced to Candidacy
Research
My research focuses on women in colonial Mexico. My doctoral dissertation examines how bigamous casta women (women of mixed race) challenged gendered, marital, and sexual norms from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth century. Broader research interests include race, gender, religion, sexuality, and the Enlightenment in New Spain (colonial Mexico) and the Atlantic World.
Publications
Manzano, David. El imperio español en Oceanía. Sillares. Revista de Estudios Históricos (Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León), June 7, 2023.
Awards & Grants
Fulbright Hays – DDRA Fellowship (UCLA)
● Year long fellowship supporting research in Mexico City, MX and Seville, SP.
Graduate Student Research Travel Award (UCLA)
● Travel grant to support research in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to consult the Scholes Papers.
Graduate Research Mentorship (UCLA)
● Research award for dissertation preparation on bigamous colonial Mexican women.
Graduate Student Research Mentorship (UCLA)
● Grant for summer research on bigamous colonial Mexican women, 16th c. – 18th c.
Doctoral Student Travel Grant (UCLA)
● Grant awarded for preliminary field research in Mexico City.
