Professor Sarah Owens presented her original work, “Spanish Nuns on the Manila Galleon (1621) at the Sixteenth Century Society Conference in Bruges, Belgium on Friday August 19, 2016.
The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women selected her article “Crossing Mexico (1620-1621): Franciscan Nuns and Their Journey to the Philippines” for the award for best article in women and gender in 2015.
Awards Committee Chair for the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, Amy Froide awards the prize for best article to Sarah E. Owens for her article “Crossing Mexico (1620–1621): Franciscan Nuns and Their Journey to the Philippines” published in the journal The Americas (Bruges, August 20, 2016)