Claire Lavarreda has received a SHARP BIPOC Research Development Grantfor her dissertation in progress titled “Cultural Transformation in the Process of Text Production: Indigenous Catholicism in New France and New Spain, 1521-1701.” SHARP, or the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, awards five BIPOC research grants annually. The funding will support her PhD research on Indigenous cosmologies and colonial texts in the dissemination of Catholicism.