Dackerie Bowes is a historian of early modern Iberia and colonial Latin America. In 2024, she moved from Madrid to Missouri to begin her PhD at SLU-St. Louis, where she researches the Inquisition, the intersection of visual and material histories, the curation of spaces and identities, and fashion. Her current research employs fashion to investigate non-linear spaces of correlation, histories of innovation, attitudes, and labor, and the utility of fashion in rituals and festivals. 

In March 2025, the Center for Iberian Historical Studies invited her to return to Madrid and attend a research symposium. She is the Graduate Student Association Representative for the Department of History and Student Representative for the College of Arts and Sciences on SLU President Dr. Edward Feser’s Strategic Research and Scholarship Planning Team. For 2026, she is on track to complete her comprehensive examinations to reach PhD candidacy and to present at SLU’s Thirteenth Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Dackerie is grateful to work under Dr. Fabien Montcher and be an affiliate of the CIHS.