Contact:	Barbara O. Reyes, 277-4133 Michael Padilla, 277-1816
May 6, 2002 UNM Professor receives Ford Foundation post-doctoral fellowship Barbara O. Reyes, assistant professor of history at the University of New Mexico, has been awarded a Ford Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship for one year. As part of the fellowship, Reyes will conduct research on indigenous, Mestiza and Spanish women from 19th Century California. Her project is titled “Private Women/Public Lives: Women in the 19th Century California Missions. The mentor for the project is Professor Vicki L. Ruiz, endowed chair in Chicana History at the University of California-Irvine. Reyes indicated that the fellowship will allow her to concentrate on research and writing. As part of her research she will examine gender roles of women as they relate to the 19th Century California missions. She will look at race, social status and ethnicity of women and how these factors worked to define a women’s agency within the mission’s public space. “The process for receiving a Ford Foundation Post-doctoral Fellowship is very competitive,” Reyes said. “It’s an honor to be selected.” Reyes received her bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree from the University of California- San Diego. ###

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